Feeling Herbert proven true. Based on further research, the active compound named Mycobakterium that was able to against tuberculosis and Bacillus leprae (Oliver-Bever, 1986). Subsequent research carried out Walter H. Lewis also states, including Centella asiatica plant groups that produce substances such as antibiotics and asiaticoside.
Centella asiatica plants possess anti-toxic, anti-infection and anti fever. Presumably this is the reason why our ancestors have been using this plant as medicine. The following folk medicine recipes use Centella asiatica to cure some types of diseases:
Pegagan (Centella asiatica) is often referred to by other names such as antanan (on Sunda) and ji xue cao (China), is a chronic herbaceous plant, grows wild in moist soil, such as dikes, ditch banks, or cliffs ground. Trunked creeping, producing many branches, and forming clumps. These plants are often eaten raw, as a prayer [...]
