Kattu amruth

[sheji ramkumar]

Today I came saw a tribe carrying plants similar to that of Tinospora cordifolia,without looking to the leaves it was difficult to differentiate .

 

Differences i could note are-

  *stem much thicker than AMRUTHA

  *leaves thick and hairy

  *smell also different

  *younger stem hairy

 

awaiting expert opinion about its identification and properties

 

sheji

[reshmi pushpan]

Dear Sheji,

Please check the below mentioned link on Tinospora sinensis. The decription in this paper resembles the plant you have posted.Lets wait the opinion from others.

http://www.zoosprint.org/ZooPrintJournal/2004/September/1622-1623.pdf

Regards,

Reshmi
--
Reshmi Sarin,
The Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam&Research Institute,
Coimbatore.

[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Reshmi for a correct link, this is also called as pothan amruth.

 

love you

sheji

[reshmi pushpan]

Is this used as a substitute for chittamruthu there, Sheji?

[sheji ramkumar]

Don't know Reshmi,we take drugs from calicut raw drug merchants, in that we can find such big ones.they could be this Tinospora sinensis. Let us wait for others comments.

 

regards

sheji

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Sheji ji & Reshmi ji, this plant is Tinospora malabarica... a commonly found adulterant of T. cordifolia...


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[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Hari ,how to differentiate Tinospora malabarica from sinensis

sheji

[Dr. Abraham MD]

Dear Sheji, The plant is Tinospora malabarica, plz see the link
http://ayurvedicmedicinalplants.com/plants/492.html

[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Abraham ji

 

regards

sheji

[shahul hameed]

T. Malabarica is experimentally proved to be more potent antipyretic than T. cordifolia.

[reshmi pushpan]

Are T.sinensis, T.tomentosa &  T. malabarica the synonyms of a single plant or are they different species?

[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Shahul ji for further details.

 

Sheji

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Adding up a few more photos of Tinospora malabarica....

Thank you Shahul ji for further details...

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Dear Reshmi ji...

Of course T.sinensis, T.malabarica & T.tomentosa are synonyms.....

Well there are a few confusions with flora of China, Pakistan etc., which am unable to follow... Taxonomists may clarify it better....

There is another source for Guduchi in some regions, which is Tinospora crispa...

[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Hari for further clarification & photos

 

regards 

sheji 

[suhas karanth]

sir is Tinospora malabarica is called as ಮಂಗನ ಬಳ್ಳಿ in kannada???????

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Yes Suhas ji... T.malabarica is  of course called as Mangana balli in Kannada... Due to its tendency to grow and climb faster on trees and reaches greater heights like monkeys (Manga in Kannada).. Hence the name.

[hema lata]

does this plant has similar properties as T.cordifolia??

[paramkusha rao]

i feel it is T. malabarica. If may be synonymous of T. sinensis? i do not know. Vatasadhani (fodder of a calf) relates this species. It is as equal as T.cordiflia therapeutically

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[Dr. Arvind Kadus]

Some days before I have collected some cuttings to make plants from
it. At the time of collection there were no leaves on the climber. I
collect it by thinking of T. cordifolia. After germination well the
leaves appears different, large, having tomantose on it, light in
colour as compare to cordifolia. I made lot of saplings for
cultivation but they are T. sinensis. Any way as Shahul Hameed saying
that this sp. is more potant than cordifolia we can use this plant
instead of T.cordifolia.
Thanks for sharing.
Dr. Kadus Arvind,Pune.
On Sep 3, 11:13 am, paramkusha rao <paramku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *i feel it is T. malabarica. If may be synonymous of T. sinensis? i do not

> know. Vatasadhani (fodder of a calf) relates this species. It is as equal as

> T.cordiflia therapeutically*
> *
> *
> *sincerely
> *

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Thank you Paramkusha ji for mentioning the term Vatsadhani for T.sinensis. Gangadhara's commentary to charaka samhita mentions about a drug called Padma guduchi (पद्म  गुडूची)  , and many scholars are of the opinion that Padma Guduchi is this plant T.malabarica (Syn:T.sinensis, T.tomentosa)

[Dr. Hari Venkatesh.K.Rajaraman]

Sheji ji... T.cordifolia can be differentiated from that of T.sinensis with the following Microscopic characters

	Tissue	T.cordifolia	T. sinensis
1.	Sclerenchymatous sheath	Become disintegrated into scattered irregular patches in the cortical region	Broken into areas capping the vascular bundle and remain persistant even after further screening growth
2	crystals	absent	A large crystal of calcium oxalate is present within the lumen of each cork cell
3	Mucilage cells	more	Less
4	Vascular strands	fewer	More in number
5	xylem	Well developed, in each strip of vascular strand	Poorly developed
6	pith	Very narrow & composed of thin walled cells	-
7	Starch content	more	Comparatively poor

[sheji ramkumar]

Thank you Hari

 

sheji

[suhas karanth]

thank you sir