“Gulvel”
Tinospora cordifolia
Botanical Name:
Tinospora cordifolia

Giloy consists of dried, matured pieces of stem of Tinospora
cordifolia (Willd.) Miers. (Fam, Menispermaceae), drug collected
during summer preferably in the month of May.

Botanical description:
The plant is a glabrous climbing shrub. The leaves are heart
shaped, broadly ovate, cordate, and long petiolate. The succulent
bark is creamy white to grey in color, with deep clefts spotted with
lenticels. It puts out long, slender aerial roots. Flowers are
yellow,growing in lax racemes from nodes. Fruits are drupes,
turning red when ripe. Seeds white, bean shaped, warty.

Parts used:
Dried stem		      


 
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