In Western herbal, the flowers are an ingredient in blood pressure tablets and mixtures and blood pressure medicinal teas.
Tiliacora acuminata
(Lam.) HK. f. &Thoms.
Synonym T racemosa Colebr.
Family Menispermaceae.
Habitat Throughout tropical India.
Siddha/Tamil Kodaparuavalli.
Folk Tiliyaa-koraa (Bihar, Bengal).
Action Plant—CVS and CNS active, spasmolytic, hypothermic. Used externally for skin diseases.
The rootbark contains bis-benzyl isoquinolin alkaloids—tiliacorine, ti liarine tiliacorinine, nor-tiiacorinines
A and B, corine, tiliacine and mo hinine. The alkaloid tiliacoridine has
been reported from the leaves.
Tinospora cordifolia
(Wild.) Miers ex Hook. f. & Thoms.
Family Menispermaceae.
Habitat Tropical India and the Andamans.
Ayurvedic Guduuchi, Guduuchikaa, Guluuchi, Amrita, Amritaa, Amritalataa, Amritavalli,
Chinnaruuhaa, Chinnodbhavaa,
Madhuparni, Vatsaadani, Tantrikaa,
Kundalini. Guduuchi sattva
(starch).
Unani Gilo, Gulanchaa. Sat-e-Gio
(starch).
Siddha Seenil, Amrida-valli.
Folk Gioya.
Action Herb—antipyretic, antiperiodic, anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, spasmolytic, hypoglycaemic, hepatoprotective. Water extract increases urine output. Stem juice—prescribed in high fever; decoction in rheumatic and bilious fevers. Aqueous extract of the plant—fabrifuge. Starch—antacid, antidiarrhoeal and antidysenteric.
The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India, along with other therapeutic applications, recommends the
