Over the past year, the team and I have been filming a brand new documentary series about ancient healing herbs that has taken us on a green medicine roller coaster ride. The new series is going to be called Remedy: Ancient Medicines For Modern Illness and I can’t wait to share it with you in a few months, but in the meantime…
There is one herb that keeps coming up again and again in all of our interviews with the masters. It is revered for enhancing brain function and has been used in India and China for thousands of years for its positive effect on memory, clarity and focus…
The crazy part? It grows all over the place and most of us westerners look at it as a weed when it grows in our yards…
The herb is called Gotu Kola and there is one woman who knows it like the back of her hand. On a recent visit out to Hawaii, I had the honor of hanging out with Genna Wolkon of Kauai Farmacy who gave us a deep-dive into this powerful plant and how it can be used to turbocharge your brain.
Also, if you love Genna’s energy as much as we did and want to check out her incredible herb farm – Kauai Farmacy, use the link below to see the amazing green potions that she and her husband Doug are bringing forward to the world.
They make a Gotu Kola tincture that is phenomenal.
(Plus, they’ve offered our tribe a special discount too :))
Click here to check out their plant medicines
Stay curious,
Nick Polizzi
Founder, The Sacred Science
Many thanks for emails and information Nick, you do a marvelous job.
I have gotu kola (pennywort here in Down East NC) all over the place. . .and it is a weed! We can’t keep up with the growth in this area and we’re constantly pulling it out and throwing it away. I’ve been aware for a long time that it was edible and have been adding it to my salads long before it was dubbed “gotu kola”. Additionally, my yard is organic and has been for 20 years. I, however cannot attest to it being a “brain food.”
I do not know this herbaceous unless you write the scientific name – in latin universal language I use for plantas and animals which I learned at the university – Regional names are regional and diferentes even if I knot it visually
This is great!…. A very important report that should be more spread out.
I appreciate you sending me a copy to acknowledge me.
Now, I am going to look for it every where this plant.
Thank you.
Does Gotu Kola grow wild in Europe?
Jackie
Kiev
Ukraone
I loved the interview as I get to see the plant as I learn about it. In Colorado this one is definitely not native.. I’d like to know more plants for healing bulging disk and an “on fire” nervous system.
Nick please reply by email to my comment thanks
This plant looks remarkably like the miner’s lettuce I used to gather and eat in California. Are they related?
I really love the in depth information that encourages you to research. Understanding the actual food your body needs us just growing as a weed. I saw some of this plant growing alongside my fence a few days ago.
I am very interested in treating your product.
I am currently using doTERRA products but feel there is something that … there is ‘more’. Looking forward to having the funds to try your product! They look great!
Thank you for doing such wonderful work and for sharing. Love and Light to you Nick!
Thank you sharing this! I would like to try it…how do we get the special discount please?!
This Gotu Kola is growing on my lawn again, i noticed recently. In my book on Indian medicinal plants, it was called ‘Mendak Parni’, which means ‘frog’s paw’ in sanskrit.. (that book was never returned). It does spread fast, and i pick a few leaves to chew, occasionally, to help my occasional memory gaps. (i live in North India in the himalayan foothills)… i’m glad to see on the video that this herb is also helpful to treat varicose veins, i have a problem there, too. Thanks for this video, Nick.
Thanks Nick for sending me this video in your email.
It only goes to prove that mother nature knows best. She was here first, and will be here when we are all gone. We must look after our rain forests, farm lands and pastures, including our rivers and seas, as they supply us with most, if not all of our natural foods and medicines for generations to come. When the Earth is polluted through ignorance and misuse of chemicals, including plastic bottles, we have only our selves to blame. John
THANKYOU Jessica. Do you know if this is available in the Souther states of Australia?
I felt she did not answer the question about the plant. Of what in the plant does all these wonderful things. She went right back into more ailments it helps with
Hi Ben, Marie’s Eco Nursery Facebook page here in SW Victoria Australia will be able to help you. I’m contacting her to order hard-to-find potted herbs, including this one. Best wishes, Julia Olwyn
Cool. Looking forward to learning more. Mahalo!
Gotu-kola (brain food). I think is amazing. I LOVE LEARNING about herbs .. been learning different things on herb for 27 yrs.