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Rotula aquatica is an aromatic shrub from tropical Asia, Africa and Brazil that grows in streams and wet places, and is valued in traditional medicine, mainly from its root tuber. Its key requirement is a consistently wet root zone.
Rotula aquatica is a species of aromatic flowering plant belonging to the family Ehretiaceae. It is a shrub native to tropical Asia, southern China, west tropical Africa, and eastern Brazil. It is a member of the lotic ecosystem of streams.
The plant is a mandatory component of many ayurvedic drug preparations and is an important traditional medicine for kidney and bladder stones. The root tuber is astringent, bitter, diuretic and also useful in treating coughs, heart diseases, dysuria, blood disorders, fever, poisonings, ulcers and uterine diseases. Root decoctions are both diuretic and laxative and are used to treat bladder stones and sexually transmitted diseases. Plants were exploited for their medicinal properties by excavating the roots, causing them to die.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rotula aquatica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
