Tinospora cordifolia

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1. An overview on medicinal plants: Tinospora cordifolia Presented by: Sheetal Kumari B.Sc. Botany Hons . 1 st year

2. Introduction Natural products with medicinal values are gradually gaining importance in clinical research due to their well-known property of no side effects as compared to drugs. Tinospora cordifolia is known as ‘amrita’ in sanskrit , and is regarded high for its medicinal value.

3. Scientific classification Kingdom- Plantae Unranked- Angiosperms Unranked- Eudicots Order- Ranunculates Family- Menispermaceae Genus- Tinospora Species- Tinospora cordifolia

4. Common and vernacular names Tinospora cordifolia is commonly called heart-leaved moonseed, guduchi , and giloy . Sanskrit- amrita, guduchi Hindi- giloy , guruc , gurcha Punjabi- gllow Telugu- tippa teega Tamil- shindiakodi

5. Botanical description Common plant of deciduous and dry forests. Large, deciduous, extensively spreading climbing shrub. Leaves: simple, alternate, exstipulate , long petiole upto 10-15cm long, roundish, pulvinate , lamina broadly ovate, 10-20cm long and 8-15cm broad. Sepals 6, polysepalous, petals 6, polypetalous.

6. Flowers: unisexual, small on separate plants, appearing when plant is leafless, greenish yellow on axillary and terminal racemes. Fruit: orange-red in colour, fleshy, ovoid, drupelets, develop during winter.

7. Growth requirements Grows in Tropical and sub-tropical climate. Planting done usually in rainy season. It can be grown in almost all soils from sandy to clay loam. But prefers black or red soil. Soil should be well drained, sufficient moisture should be there and rich in organic matter.

8. Growth constraints and threats It can be propagated by seeds and vegetative propagation. Due to its medicinal values giloy is being over- exploited by pharmaceutical companies. Plant tissue culture techniques are suitable for large scale production of these plants to fulfill the demands of these companies in lesser time and space.

9. Active components/ chemicals present in tinospora cordifolia

10. G iloy is helpful in curing many diseases. It is widely used as-

11. Tinospora cordifolia which use Neem ( Azadirachta indica ) to climb and grow is called an NEEM GILOY. It has chemical properties similar as neem as well as giloy and show better therapeutic properties.

12. Future prospects In drug industry as a cure to many life threatening diseases. Endophytic fungi were found associated with T. cordifolia . Scientist are using phytodiversity to produce nanoparticles. Nanoparticles plays an important role in drug delivery, diagnostic imaging, sensing, gene delivery, artificial implant, tissue engineering.