Benefits and Uses: Swelling, blood pressure, increases collagen, varicose veins and venous insufficiency (a condition where blood pools in the leg/s), improves cognitive function (attention, learning, memory, problem solving, reasoning and thinking), protects from glutamate-induced excitotoxicity and enhance neural connectivity, anxiety, syphilis, hepatitis, stomach ulcers, epilepsy, diarrhea, fever, asthma, and hair growth,