Botanical name : Tinospora cordifolia (Wild.) Mires ex Hook.f. & Thoms

Family : Menispermaceae

SANSKRIT SYNONYMS

Guduchi, Amrita, Chinnaruha

AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES

Rasa : Tikta, Kashaya, Madhura

Guna : Lakhu, Snigda

Virya : Ushna

PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

English : Gulancha tinospora, Tinospora

Hindi : Giloy, Gulancha, Amrta

Malayalam : Chittamritu, Amrit

PLANT DESCRIPTION

A spreading perennial deciduous twinner with succulent stems and easily pealing off papery bark. Leaves simple, alternate, cordate, entire, glabrous, with 7-9 nerves. Flowers yellow in recemes, arising from nodes on the old wood. Male flowers usually are in clusters and female solitary. Fruits are drupes, red when ripe. Mucilaginous greenish crust is covered with grey colored coat studded with tubercles.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Plant pacifies vitiated vata, pitta, burning sensation, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, cardiac debility, skin disease, anemia, cough, jaundice, oligospermia and urinary system diseases.

Useful part : Stem