Gotu Kola is a native Indonesian plant originating from the Banda Islands, Maluku (The text mistakenly links Gotu Kola's description to Nutmeg's origin, which is Banda). In addition to Indonesia, it is also found in Asia, America, and Africa. The seeds (Nutmeg/Pala) were an important spice commodity since Roman times. In Indonesia, the main producers of Nutmeg are the Maluku Islands, North Sulawesi, West Sumatra, Aceh, West Java, and Papua. It is often used as a cooking spice, a material for perfume and soap, and also has health benefits.

This is a wild herb growing in regions with an altitude of 700–2,500 meters above sea level (m.a.s.l.). This plant is commonly found in plantations, fields, roadsides, and rice field embankments. It prefers slightly moist soil, sufficient light, and a somewhat protected environment.

• Root: Short roots found at the nodes, soft stolons, and segmented.

• Stem: Creeping (vining), highly branched, each branch forming a new plant.

• Leaves: Rosette arrangement, kidney-shaped (reniform), serrated leaf margin, and located around the stem.

• Flower: Emerge from the leaf axils and are arranged like an umbel (umbrella-shaped), colored greenish, pink, or reddish.

• Fruit: Small, oval/flattened shape, and tastes bitter but has a fragrant smell.

• Propagation: Done vegetatively (stolons) and generatively (seeds).

• Wound healing, inflammation, rheumatism, asthma, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis, leprosy, dysentery, fever, cough (dry, bloody), mouth ulcers (canker sores), high blood pressure (hypertension), liver swelling, measles, boils, blood booster, enhances the immune system, increases appetite, cleanses the blood, improves digestive disorders, Alzheimer's, relieves stress, diuretic (promotes urine flow), bloody vomiting, nosebleeds, treats red and swollen eyes, dewormer, treats jengkol poisoning.

• Triterpenoids (asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, madecassic acid), flavonoids, phytosterols, tannins, saponins, thankuniside, isothankuniside, brahmoside, brahminoside, brahmic acid, meso-inositol centellose, carotenoids, hydrocotylin, vellarine, free amino acids (alanine, serine, aminobutyrate, aspartate, glutamate, lysine, threonine), fatty acids (linoleic acids, linolenic, oleic, palmitic, stearic acids).