| Botanical Name |
Bacopa monnieri |
| Common Name |
Brahmi |
| Family |
Scrophulariaceae |
| Part-Used |
Whole plant, fresh as well as dried |
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Active Compounds:
Medicinal Properties:
The plant is a cooling purgative intellect promoting and has astringent, bitter, sweet, aphrodisiac and aperient.
Uses:
This is a very good treatment of asthma, hoarseness of voice, insanity and epilepsy. This is also used for the treatment of cardiac and nerve tonic, insanity, headaches, scorpion stings, snakebites, anemia, leprosy, liver ailments, skin conditions, and memory lapses. This is a traditional brain nerve tonic, now being recognized for its memory enhancing and revitalizing effects.
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