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Article: Gotu kola: this ayurvedic herb may reduce your anxiety without the side effects of drugs. (Herb Brief).
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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THIS CREEPING PLANT GROWS IN CHINA, India, and Madagascar. Practitioners of Ayurveda (India's holistic medical system) have relied on the herb for centuries. Gotu kola is often confused with the caffeine-containing kola nut, but gotu kola is unrelated and contains no caffeine.
HOW It Works
People with stress-related disorders like anxiety and panic attacks are believed to have an overactive startle response. Scientists theorize that compounds in gotu kola known as triter-pene acids bind to receptors in your central nervous system and reduce your startle response.
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