Medicinal Properties of Tinospora Cordifolia (Guduchi)
Tinospora cordifolia is one of the most important medicinal plant commonly known as Giloy belonging to menispermaceae family is a deciduous climbing shrub described known for its immense application in the treatment of various diseases such as jaundice, fever, diabetes, and skin diseases etc.The chemical constituents of this shrub belong to different classes such as alkaloid, lactones, steroids, phenolics, aliphatic compound, glycosides and polyscharide compounds having medical importance.
Tinospora cordifolia (Amrita)-A miracle herb and lifeline to many diseases
Medicinal plants have been used to cure human illness since time immemorial. Some of these drugs are b e- lieved to promote positive health and maintain organic resistance against infections by re -establishing body's immune system and thus help in maintaining body equilibrium and conditioning of body tissues. Immuno -modulating and im- mune-potentiating agents have been reported to act primarily on cellular rather than humoral immune responses and to restore the aired host tissues without hyperstimulating the normals. It augments macrophage chemotaxis, phagoc ytosis and promotes interaction with other immunoregulatory lymphoid cells. Tinospora cordifolia (family Menispermaceae) is a large glabrous, deciduous climbing sh rub typically growing in deciduous and dry forests. It is distributed throughout tropical Indian subcontinent ascending from Himalayas down to the southern part of Peninsular India at an altitude of 300 m asl. It is also reported in neighboring countries l ike Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is rightly called the magical herb due to its property of curing a lot of diseases. The present investigation provides evidences that support the ethnomedicinal properties of Tinospora cordifoliain the light of various researches.
Catalytic removal of tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBS) ether by PVP-I
Abstract A mild, efficient and rapid protocol the deprotection of alcoholic TBDMS ethers using PVP-1 as catalyst in methanol, the procedure of deprotection of various TBDMS ethers were found to be very convenient, easy work-up, high yielding.