Botanical name: Bacopa monniera
Bacopa
Other names:
Brahmi, Thyme-leaved gratiola
Bacopa is used as herb in the traditionel Chinese medicine as well as in the Ayurvedic medicine.
Description of the plant:
Bacopa is perennial and cannot withstand frost. It is a creeping herb which loves wet places. Bacopa reaches a height up to 10 cm and gets rosa to babyblue flowers. The soil should be soggy and well dunged.
Bacopa loves sunny places as well as shady places. The plant is easy to handle as a house plant.
Healing power:
Bacopa contains saponines like monnierine, hersaponine, the bacosides A and B and the alkaloids brahmine and herpestine.
The whole plant you use
- to treat rheumatism,
- as a diuretic,
- as nerve and cardiac tonic,
- to improve memory and mental clarity.
- It has got a tranquilizing action.
In India Bacopa is a remedy
- for the treatment of debility,
- nervous breakdown,
- epilepsy,
- hysteria,
- insanity.
The fresh juice is given to children
- for diarrhea,
- bronchitis,
- catarrh,
- applied to the chest a poultice made of boiled herbs is used.
- to treat asthma
- insomnia
- eczemas
- frigidity.
In China Bacopa is used
- to treat impotence and
- infertility.
The taste of Bacopa is very bitter and doesn´t taste well.
Propagation:
By laywers
You cut the stem into pieces, lay them into water and after a while they build roots.
Or start seeds anytime indoors in pots or flats. Keep them damp.
Bacopa with roots
