Tinospora cordifolia
Tinospora cordifolia
Author : (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thoms.
Family : Menispermaceae

Habit:Climbing shrub
Sanskrit: Guduchi, Amrta
English: Gulancha tinospora, Tinospora
 
Description
A large, glabrous, deciduous climbing shrub, with long filiform fleshy aerial roots from the branches, sparsely lenticellate, terete stem, grey-brown bark, peeling off in flakes at maturity, broadly ovate-cordate leaves, small, solitary, yellow or greenish-yellow female flowers appearing when leafless, in axillary and terminal racemes or racemose panicles, male flowers clustered, yellow and red, ovoid, glossy, succulent drupes containing curved seeds.
Useful part

Stem, leaves
Medicinal Uses

burning sensation, worm infestations, stomach pain, intermittent fevers, chronic fevers, thirst, inflammations, vomiting, cardiac debility, skin diseases, leprosy, anaemia, gonorrhoea, diabetes, cough, asthma, jaundice, bleedings, filaria, eye diseases, neurological disorders, general debility, seminal weakness, urinary diseases, spleen disorders, fractures, bites of poisonous snakes & insects, diarrhoea
Major chemical constituents

tinosporin, tinosporon, tinosporide, cordifolide, tinosporol, tinosporic acid, tinosporidine, columbin, perberilin, chasmanthin, palmarin, berberine, giloin, giloinisin, 2,2-substituted pyrrolidine, diterpenoid furanolactone, 18-norclerodanediterpene-O-glucoside, aryltetrahydrofuranolignan, octacosanol, nonacosan-15-one, b-sitosterol, unosporin, heptacosanol, cordifol, cordifolon, magnoflorine, tembetarine, cardiofoliosides A & B, pyrrolidine, diterpenoid furnaolactone, phenolic lignan 3-(a, 4-dihydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl)-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl)-tetrahydrofuran, arabinogalactan, clerodane diterpenoid (5R, 10R) 4R, 8R-dihydroxy-25, 3R: 15, 16-diepoxycleroda-13 (16,14) – dieno-17, 12S:18, 1S-dilactone, few furanoid diterpene glucoside