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Centella asiatica

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Centella asiatica is a perennial herbaceous creeper native to India and parts of Asia that is consumed in the plant form. It is integrated into Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal remedies and used for treatment of a variety of ailments, most notably affecting the skin and female genitourinary tract, and to improve memory and concentration. There are also various pharmaceutical formulations aimed at exploiting intrinsic wound-healing, anticonvulsive, antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidative properties.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Monash Medical Center, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Janu Pirakalathanan MBBS, Stephen L. Stuckey MBBS, MMed, MD, FRANZCR & Ronil V. Chandra MBBS, MMed, FRANZCR

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Correspondence to Ronil V. Chandra MBBS, MMed, FRANZCR .

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  2. Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Juan E. Small

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    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Pirakalathanan, J., Stuckey, S.L., Chandra, R.V. (2015). Centella asiatica . In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_10

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