Daun pegagan

The benefits of leaf pegagan or antanan may not be widely known by the people of the present era. In fact, this one herb itself has been used as a traditional medicine since the first to date in various countries. Not only good for the health of the body, leaf pegagan also believed to be able to smooth blood circulation to improve function and brain performance.

Pegagan leaf that has the scientific name Centella Asiatica is a kind of wild plants that come from the family of grass. You can easily find the weeds in the fields, the roadside, and also the yard of the house. Plants that have a wide leaf shape is estimated to come from Asia and the tropics. In Indonesia itself, this plant has many nicknames, some of which are leaves of horse legs and also leaves antanan.

As for those of you who do not know what kind of pegagan plants, you can listen to the characteristics or characteristics of the following perkagan plant:

Centella asiatica also has a small hanging fruit and has a flat or oval shape with a fragrant aroma and taste bitter.Pegagan including plants that are not trunked, but has a rhizome with a short size and stolon-stolon that creeps with a long rhizome ranging anntara 10-80 cm.Architecture pegagan out of the stumps and a lot of percababngannya and usually from the perspiration berbetuk individual or new plant.Pegagan has a single leaf, stemmed around 5 up to 15 cm, shaped like a kidney, serrated and arranged in a rosette consisting of 2-10 leaves that sometimes also have hair.

For more details, you can pay attention to the images of the plant pegagan below.

Although this plant belongs to the type of wild plants, but not a few parties who have used this plant, especially the leaves as a natural ingredient for health and treatment. In fact some people have used it as a food ingredient in the same way, as you would do on parsley or watercress.