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ArticleBioMed research international2014

Impact of seasons and dioecy on therapeutic phytoconstituents of Tinospora cordifolia, a Rasayana drug.

Namrta Choudhry, Shweta Singh, Mohammad Badruzzaman Siddiqui, Sayyada Khatoon

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Article in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  1. Exploring the Medicinal and Nutraceutical Frontiers ofCurrent topics in medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  2. Phytochemical analysis ofWorld journal of experimental medicine · 2024
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  3. Tinosporaside fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  4. Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021
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Namrta ChoudhryDepartment of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
Shweta SinghPharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India.
Mohammad Badruzzaman SiddiquiDepartment of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
Sayyada KhatoonPharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8578-1402

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tinospora cordifolia (Thunb.) Miers, Menispermaceae, is a dioecious creeper, commonly known as "Giloe" or "Guduchi" with significant medicinal importance in the traditional systems of medicine. It is designated as Rasayana drug in Ayurveda and recommended for a number of diseases and also as adaptogen and immunomodulator. The safety and efficacy of herbal medicines are closely correlated with the quality of the source materials. The aim of this study is to see the effect of seasons on phytoconstituents and how these vary in male and female stem samples of T. cordifolia. The study revealed that total phenolics and total sugar concentration obtained highest values in summer season while starch and tannin content were found maximum in winter season in both the genders. However, biomarkers, tinosporaside and berberine, reached to their highest concentration in monsoon season. Further, antioxidant potential revealed the highest inhibition percentage in winter season as well as in late summer season. The results of this study suggest that the female plant is best for its therapeutic phytoconstituents and the best harvesting seasons may be either winter or late summer for antioxidant potential and immunomodulator activities and monsoon for antidiabetic activity of T. cordifolia.

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SeasonsAntioxidantsIndiaPlant ExtractsPlants, MedicinalPlant StemsSex CharacteristicsTinosporaAntioxidantsPlant Extracts

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