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Gotu Kola
Important safety information: Rare liver injury has been reported; avoid with liver disease or liver-affecting medicines and stop for jaundice or dark urine. May cause drowsiness; avoid pregnancy and breastfeeding without advice.
Herbal actions
- Traditional cognitive tonic
- wound-healing support topically
- venotonic in defined extracts
Traditional and practitioner uses
These uses are presented for historical and educational context. They are not treatment claims.
- Traditional memory and concentration support
- Defined topical products for minor wound support
- Defined extracts studied for venous symptoms
Main constituents
Triterpenoid saponins including asiaticoside and madecassoside, flavonoids and phenolic acids
Preparation overview
Tea: Infusion. Clinical findings from standardised extracts do not establish an equivalent tea dose.
Liquid extract reference: Product-specific; no universal household dose
Preparation strengths are not interchangeable. Open the interactive guide for the complete evidence notes and sources available for this herb.
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