This perennial creeping marsh herb has been an integral part of Ayurveda, a system of Indian folk medicine so ancient that it even predates Chinese herbal lore. Although bacopa grows mostly in India, it can also be found in Southeast Asia and even in parts of the American south, especially Florid
Ayurvedic medicine has found many uses for bacopa that modern science has recently begun to validate.
Indian scientists suspect that certain “memory compounds” in bacopa which they refer to as bacosides play a role in the repair of brain synapses, the junctions that nerve cells communicate with one another across.