Treating Fever. Relieving discomfort and reducing body temperature to a normal level are both goals in treating fever, but it is also important to identify and treat the feverâs underlying cause.1-3 Fever treatment includes the use of various OTC antipyretics as well as a host of nonpharmacologic measures.
It is also used to make medicine. Cola nut is used for short-term relief of fatigue, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), melancholy, lack of normal muscle tone (atony), exhaustion, dysentery, a type of diarrhea called atonic diarrhea, weight loss, and migraine headaches.
Growing in some areas of the Himalayas, gotu kola is used by yogis to improve meditation. It is said to develop the crown chakra, the energy center at the top of the head and to balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain, which the leaf is said to resemble.