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AMAZING BENEFITS OF AMRUTA BALLI

Ragini S

II BSc (CBZ)

GFGC, Tumkur

raginiragini879@gmail.com     Ph: 9901481479

 

Common name: Heart wood mooseed

Vernacular names: HINDI- Gulancha,Giloe

                                  KANNADA-Amrutha balli

                                  SANSKRIT – Guduchi, Amrita

Part used:  The whole plant

Scientific name: Tinospora cordifolia

Active ingredient:  Cordifol, tinosporidine, tinosporide, perberilin, heptacosanol, β-sitosterol, cordifolone, tinosporon, tinosporic acid, tinosporol, cordifolide.

Tinospora cordifolia is a shrub that is native to India. Its root, stems, and leaves are used in Ayurvedic medicine. Tinospora cordifolia is used for diabetes, high cholesterol, allergic rhinitis (hay fever), upset stomach, gout, lymphoma and other cancers, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease (PUD), fever, gonorrhea, syphilis, and to boost the immune system.

Botanical Discription

A large climbing shrub, lianous; stems grooved, succulent, glabrous with corky bark. Leaves alternate, simple; exstipuate; petioles tendrillar; laminae broadly ovate to orbicular, the bases cordate 5-10cm broad with a broad sinus and large basal lobes, the margins entire, the tips acute or accuminate, 3-to 5-costate, reticulate, the surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences racemes, axillary or terminal or cauliflorous, lax, often exceeding leaf length; bracts subulate. Flowers ebracteolate, pedicellate, cuisexual, dioecious, (unsexual) actinomophic, trimerous, greenish; male fascicled and female usually solitary having ovary on the fleshy receptacle and hypogynous.  Fruits are Drupes ovoid, succulent, lustrous, red, pea sized. Seeds  curved. Flowers during the summer and fruits during the winter

Medicinal uses

1.  The plant is antiperiodic (recover periodic diseases), alternative tonic, diuretic and also used in the treatment of rheumatism (stiffness of the joint), urinary diseases, skin diseases, jaundice, chronic dysentery and diarrhoea.
2. Decoction of the stem is used for rheumatic fever and vomiting due to excessive bile secretion; slow fever associated with cough is arrested by the administration of its' decoction mixed with Piper longum (fruits) and honey. General dose of extract is 0.35-1.05 g/day.
3. Stem paste with a little ginger is prescribed in urticaria. In combination with the stem of Piper nigrum and honey, it is useful to control heart palpitation due to flatulency;
4. Stem juice found beneficial in elephantiasis when administered in combination with sweet oil. A kind of starch called 'Palo' is prepared from the aqueous extract of dried stem and is considered to have antacid, anti diarrhoeal and antidysenteric properties (dose: 0.7 to 2.10 g/day).
5. The leaves resembles human heart, contains  a drug called Fecula  used in the treatment of cardiac disease.
6. Stem juice is valued in high fever and also given in jaundice either alone or mixed with honey.
7. Leaves of the plant are rich in protein, calcium and phosphorus with no toxic effect and as such prescribed in fever. Aqueous extract of the plant is a febrifuge.
8. The plant is used in the treatment of respiratory disorders and also for the treatment of H1N1 viruses.
9. The whole plant is used in the treatment of snake bite.

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