MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH001 : Tinospora cordifolia auct. non (DC). Miers: Hook f. & Thoms. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 6 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Hedges & thickets around villages | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Menispermaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Gulvel, heart-leaved moonseed, guduchi and giloy, Amrita, Gulbel, Indian Tinospora, Giloy, Gulancha, Gulbel, Ningthou, khongli, Gulvel, Kunali, Manapala, Madhuparni, Nimgilo, Amritvel, Hoguni-lot, Guruchi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tinospora malabarica Miers. |
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| Description : | A tall climber. Stem c. 6.5 cm in diameter, smooth, shining, lenticellate, bark light grey, papery, branches pubescent. Leaves c. 7.5-13.8 cm long, 9-17 cm broad, broadly ovate or orbicular, deeply cordate at the base, 7-nerved, subacuminate, young pubescent above, tomentose beneath; petiole 5-12.3 cm long, thickened and twisted at the base. Flowers greenish yellow in racemes 7-14 cm long, pedicels slender, usually solitary in the female, clustered in the male. Male flowers: sepals 6 in 2 series, the outer ones small, ovate-oblong, obtuse, concave, the inner large suborbicular, membranous, flat, 2.5-4 mm long, 2-3 mm broad; petals subequal, 2-3 mm long, 1.2-1.8 mm broad, clawed, membranous, smaller than the sepals; stamens 6, filaments free, 2.5-3 mm long, thickened at the apex. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in the male flowers; staminodes 6; carpels 3. Drupes 1-3, ovoid, 6-9 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, smooth, crimson, endocarp tubercled. Fl.Per.: March-June. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Fevers, Diabetes, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Urinary problems, Skin diseases and Chronic Diarrhea, Dysentery, Heart diseases, Leprosy, Helmenthiasis and Rheumatoid arthritis, Anti-cancer (Gach et al., 2015); Leaves crushed with warm water, two drops poured in ear to cure the infection. 10 gm green leaves of wheat and leaves of Tinospora crushed with water; a cup of filtrate is used daily to cure cancer. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Columbin Tinosporaside Jatrorhizine Palmatine Berberine Tinocordifolioside Choline Tinosporic acid Tinosporal Tinosporon Sesquiterpenes and diterpenes Terpenoids: Tinosporide Furanolactone diterpene Furanolactone clerodane diterpene furanoid diterpene Ecdysterone makisterone Glucosides: Poly acetate Cordifolioside A, Cordifolioside B Cordifolioside C Cordifoliside D Cordifoliside E Tinocordioside Cordioside Palmatosides C Palmatosides F Sesquiterpene tinocordifolin Alkaloids: Tinosporine Magnoflorine Tembetarine Jatrorrhizine 1,2-Substituted pyrrolidine Beberine Tembeterine Lignans: 3(a, 4-dihydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl)-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl) Steroids: Giloinsterol Beta-sitosterol 20a- Hydroxy ecdysone Others: Giloin Giloinin Tinosporan acetate Tinosporal acetate Tinosporidine Heptacosanol Cordifolone Octacosanol Tinosponone 20-hydroxyecdysone Phytoecdysones |
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| Reference : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ R.N. Kale, R.N. Patil and R.Y. Patil; "Asthma and Herbal Drugs"; IJPSR (2010); 1(12): 37-42 PMID : ~ Abeynayake Pemadasa, Jansz Manori, Rajoria Kshpira and Singh Sarvesh Kumar; "Role of Rajayapana basti with reference to Duchenne muscular Dystrophy: A review"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2016); 7(4): 7-10 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Avni G. Desai, Ghulam N. Qazi, Ramesh K. Ganju, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Jaswant Singh, Ajit K. Saxena, Yashbir S. Bedi, Subhash C. Taneja, and Hari K. Bhat; "Medicinal Plants and Cancer Chemoprevention"; Curr Drug Metab. (2008); 9(7): 581–591 PMID : ~ Anupama Thapliyal, Roop Krishen Khar, Amrish Chandra; "Overview of Cancer and Medicinal Herbs used for Cancer Therapy"; Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics (2018); 12(1): S1-8 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : ~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID : ~ Patil, R.N.; Patil, R.Y.; Ahirwar, B. and Ahirwar, D.; "Evaluation of antidiabetic and related actions of some Indian medicinal plants in diabetic rats"; Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (2011); 20-23 PMID : |
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