Dutt states that this plant is the Brahmi of the native physicians of Calcutta, where it is considered to be a nervine tonic useful in insanity, epilepsy, fever, &c. It is certainly not the Brahmi of the Nighantas, but would appear to be the plant called Jala-brahmi or “Water Brahmi” by Sanskrit writers. Owing to a similarity in the names it has frequently been confounded with Hydrocotyle asiatica, which is the Brahmi or Brahmi-manduka of the Nighantas.
Library · Pharmacographia Indica, 1890
HERPESTIS MONNIERA, H. B. et K. History, Uses, &c.
William Dymock, C. J. H. Warden and David Hooper, vol. 3, p. 8. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.