What magical plant is Centella asiatica?
Centella asiatica is not a magical plant. Flower lovers in rural areas are relatively familiar with it. Like mint, houttuynia cordata and plantain, it is an edible wild vegetable or Chinese herbal medicine.
Because it has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, it is used to extract components such as asiatic acid and asiaticoside from it for beauty and skin care products.
For example: mask, pure dew, essence, etc. This is also the popularity of beauty and skin care products, which has aroused everyone's curiosity.
What's the name of Centella asiatica?
In some rural areas, Centella asiatica is also known as Gleditsia sinensis, Euphorbia humifusa, broken bowl, horseshoe, Leigonggen, Centella asiatica, cypress and so on.
Introduction of related plant characteristics of Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica is a perennial herb of Centella in Umbelliferae, also known as horseshoe, glechoma, tripterygium wilfordii. Its shape is quite similar to that of the copperhead snake, with slender stems, green and round leaves, horseshoe-shaped or heart-shaped.
It's just that the petiole of Centella asiatica has a gap, and the leaf edge has small serrations arranged regularly, while the copper grass is more like a mini version of the lotus leaf.
Where does Centella asiatica grow?
Centella asiatica likes warm and humid environment and can't resist cold. In tropical areas with suitable climate, Centella asiatica can basically be evergreen all the year round, generally flowering in summer, and its propagation is mainly based on branching or sowing.
Centella asiatica (1) is mainly used for medicine or food.
Centella asiatica is common in Shan Ye, ditches, tea gardens and other places in rural China. It can be regarded as a beneficial grass and can be used to make herbal tea or edible wild vegetables. However, it is cold and should not be eaten more.
In addition to China, Southeast Asia, Indian and other tropical regions also have the habit of eating Centella asiatica.
(2) Landscape beautification
Centella asiatica is a creeping herb with aerial roots on stems and nodes, which has strong reproductive ability and is very easy to grow in pieces.
Moreover, it has low requirements for living environment, strong vitality and good resilience after trampling, so it is also commonly used in landscaping, mainly used as lawn or slope protection plants.
It can also be potted or hydroponic, and its ornamental value and daily maintenance are exactly the same as copper grass.
(3) Beauty and skin care
It is nothing new to process beauty and skin care products with mild and non-irritating plant extracts with beauty and skin care functions.
And Centella asiatica also has the title of "skin nutritionist", such as aloe, ginseng, lemon, mint and other well-known plants.
Through research and demonstration, its effective components have been widely used in beauty and skin care products, and have accumulated a certain popularity after years of promotion.