habitat,habit , useful parts , morphology and anatomy of useful parts,phytochemicals present and pharmaceutical uses of Tinospora cordifolia.

2. TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA
• HABITAT – DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT INDIA
• HABIT –
CLIMBING SHRUB ( CLIMBS OVER THE HIGHEST TREES)
BRANCHES WITH DOWNWARD AERIAL ROOTS( GROWS AND
REACHES THE GROUND)
SIMPLE ALTERNATE LEAVES
MALE AND FEMALE IN SEPARATE PLANTS

4. •USEFUL PART – MATURE STEM
•MORPHOLOGY OF USEFUL PARTS –
STARCH FROM THESE MATURE STEM SURFACE IS
CLOSELY STUDDED WITH WARTY TUBERCLES

5. ANATOMY OF USEFUL PART –
• MATURE STEM IS COVERED WITH CORK.
• OUTERCORK TISSUE IS BROKEN UP BY THE OPENING OF LENTICELS.
• PHELLOGEN CONSISTS OF A SINGLE AND PHELLODERM CONSISTS
OF 5 ROWS OF CELLS.
• CORTEX IS LARGE WITH MANY LARGE SCATTERED SECRETORY
CELLS
• SECRETORY CELLS ARE LARGER THAN CORTICAL CELLS
• VASCULAR ZONE BELOW IT CONTAIN 10-12 STRIPES OF XYLEM
AND PPHLOEM.THEY ALTERNATE WITH MEDULLARY RRAYS.CENTER

7. •PHYTOCHEMICALS –
CORDIFOL,
TINOSPORIDINE,
TINOSPORIDE,
TINOSPORINE,
PERBIRILINE

8. PHARMACEUTICAL USES -
• PUNGENT, BITTER
• SWEET ON DIGESTION
• ASTRINGENT AND STRENGTHENING
• PROMOTES DIGESTION POWER
• USED AGAINST COUGH, ANAEMIA, JAUNDICE ETC
• CURES BLEEDING OF PILES
• PROMOTES LONGEVITY

9. ACTIVE COMPONENTS
• ALKALOIDS
• DIPTERPENOID LACTONES
• GLYCOSIDES
• SESQUITERPENOID
• ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS
• ANTI-DIABETIC
• ANTI-CANCER
• ANTI-TOXIC
• ANTI-MICROBIAL
• ANTI-OXIDANT
• ANTI-HIV

10. MEDINICAL PROPERTIES
• THE STEM OF THIS PLANT IS ONE OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF SEVERAL
AYURVEDIC PREPARATION USED IN DYSPEPSIA, FEVER AND URINARY DISEASES.
• THE STEM IS BITTER, STOMACHIC ,DIURETIC,STIMULATES BILE SECRETION,
CAUSES CONSTIPATION,BURNING SENSATION, VOMITING,ENRICHES BLOOD
AND CURES JAUNDICE.
• THE EXTRACT OF IT’S STEM IS USEFUL IN IN SKIN DISEASES.
• THE COMBINATION OF IT’S ROOT, STEM AND OTHER DRUGS IS USED AS A
ANTIDOTE TO SNAKEBITES AND SCORPION STING

11. • USED FOR TREATING DIABETES MELLUTUS.
• REPORTED BENEFICIAL TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM.

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