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Moon Seed

 

BOTANICAL NAME:

  • Tinospora cordifolia

FAMILY:

  • Menispermaceae

SYNONYM(S):

  • Menispermum cordifolium

URDU NAME:

  • Gilo
  • Gurach

REGIONAL NAME:

  • Bengali: Gurach, Gibe, Gulancha
  • Persian: Gulbel
  • Pashto: Gilo
  • Sanskrit: Guduchi
  • Sindhi: Sutgilo
  • Arabic: Gilo
  • Punjabi: Gilo
  • Hindi: Gibe ,Amanita

UNANI/TIBBI NAME:

  • Gilo

ENGLISH NAME:

  • Heart Leaved Moon Seed, Gulancha Tinospora

HABITAT:

  • Cultivated throughout N.W.F.P and Punjab and Sindh

DESCRIPTION:

  • It is a glabrous climbing shrub having succulent corky stems.
  • The gray or creamy white bark has spiral longitudinal clefts.
  • Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminate and petiolate.
  • Flowers greenish yellow, male clustered, female usually solitary.
  • Fruit is in the form of red berries, the stone is broadly ellipsoid

PART USED:

  • Whole Plant, Stem

TASTE:

  • Bitter

TEMPERAMENT:

  • Hot 1°, dry 1°

PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE:

  • Flowers in summer and rainy season

PROCEDURE & TIME OF COLLECTION:

  • The stem should be collected in the summer season when the bitter principle is present in the plant in a great concentration

CONSTITUENTS:

  • Berbenine
  • Cibumbin
  • Chasman thin
  • Pabmanin
  • Tinosponic acid
  • Tinosporon
  • Tinospotol
  • Giboin
  • Giboinin.
  • Protein
  • Calcium
  • Phosphorus

SUBSTITUTES:

  • Satgi /starch of Tinospora

ACTIONS AND USES IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:

Pharmacological action:

  • Bitter
  • Alterative
  • Appetizer
  • Stomachic
  • Tonic
  • Antipyretic
  • Expectorant
  • Astringent
  • Diuretic
  • Resolvent
  • Anti-inflammatory

Therapeutic uses:

  • In chronic diarrhea
  • Dysentery
  • Gonorrhea
  • Tuberculosis
  • Intermittent fever
  • Resolves the inflammation of stomach
  • Blood purifier
  • In anemia
  • Jaundice
  • An expectorant use in coughs

DOSES:

  • 12-25 g

CORRECTIVES:

  • Tabasheer/ bamboo manna (bambusa arundinaceae)

IMPORTANT UNANI FORMULATIONS:

  • Hab-e-masihee
  • Laooq masihee
  • Qurs humma jaded
  • Arq hara bhara
  • Arq gibo
  • Sufuf Mussafi Khas
  • Dawa-i- sandal
  • Hab diq-ul-atfal
  • Hab tap balghanii

ASTROLOGY:

  • Saturn