Tinosporia Cordifolia or Heart Leaved Moonseed helps Immunity boosting, General well being, Cures Eye problems, Fever & low Platelets Count, Diabetes control, Jaundice, Cough, Cold, Menstruating Women, Skin disease, HIV.
Heart leaved moonseed is known in different languages as : Punjabi: گلو (Gllow), Telugu: తిప్ప తీగ (Tippa-teega), Tamil: சீந்தில் கொடி (Shindilakodi), Malayalam: ചിറ്റമൃത് (Amruthu, Chittamruthu), Kannada: ಅಮೃತ ಬಳ್ಳಿ (Amrutha balli),[14] Khmer: បណ្តូលពេជ្រ (bândaul pich), Sinhala: රසකිද Rasakinda, Thai: บอระเพ็ด (boraphét), Pali: galocī, Hindi:geloy (गिलोय), guruc (गुरुच), gurcha, Gujarati: galac, garo, Sanskrit: guduchi, amrta (अमृत), cinnodbhava (छिन्नोद्भवा), Bengali:Gulancha, Marathi: Guduchi (गुडूची), gulvel (गुळवेल), Odia: Guluchi, Myanmar: ဆင်တုံးမနွယ် Nepali: Gurjo (गुर्जो).
In Ayurvedam it is known as Guduchi (Sankskrit) and considered divine herb. It is a large deciduous shrub indigenous to India and Srilanka and Myanmar.
It is a large shrub with long branches and flowers are unisexual. The leaves are heart shaped and dark green in color. Fruits are found in bunches of 1-3 and orange in color.
In Ayurveda it has many medicinal uses and is a natural immune enhancer.
Tinosporia Cordifolia or Heart Leaved Moonseed Home Made Medicines
For Immunity boosting :
Nowadays children regularly suffer from cold and cough. Allopathy only gives temporary relief. Eating 2 heart leaved moonseed leaves
early in the morning helps boost immunity. This will prevent cough, cold and other diseases from infecting us.
For General well being :
Take 100 grams of heart leaved moonseed leaves powder, 160 grams of jaggery, 160 grams of honey and 160 grams of ghee/ clarified
butter. Grind all of them together and make a paste. Consume 5 grams of this twice a day. This will give good health, prevent premature graying and eye problems.
For Eye problems :
Obtain equal quantities of heart leaved moonseed leaves and triphala churnam. Triphala churnam consists of Indian gooseberry, terminalia chebulia and terminalia bellerica. Grind all of them together and filter using a muslin cloth. Store in cool and dry place. Every day add one teaspoon of this powder to a glass of water and boil till half of it remains. To this add a spoon of honey and long pepper powder. Eat this daily to cure all eye related problems.
For Fever and low Platelets count :
For patients suffering from fever and low platelet count, try the following remedy. Get some heart leaved moonseed stem and add twice the quantity of water to it. Boil the water till only half the water remains. Drink a cup of this water with one teaspoon of honey to reduce fever and increase platelets count.
For Diabetes and blood glucose control :
Consuming 1 gram of heart leaved moonseed leaves with a little honey. This will control blood glucose levels and manage diabetes.
For Jaundice :
Take some heart leaved moonseed leaves and grind them to obtain their juice. Filter this juice and keep 24 milliliters aside. To this add one cup of cow buttermilk. Drink this buttermilk medicine early in the morning on empty stomach to cure jaundice.
For Cough, Cold :
Take some heart leaved moonseed leaves powder and add an equal quantity of honey to it. Consume this twice a day to get rid of persistent cough and cold.
For Menstruating Women :
Take some heart leaved moonseed leaves and crush them into a juice. Drinking 15 milliliter of this juice twice a day in the morning and evening will cure problems suffered by women during periods.
For Skin disease :
Obtain equal quantities of heart leaved moonseed leaves, turmeric and triphala churnam. Triphala churnam consists of indian gooseberry, terminalia chebulia and terminalia bellerica. Mix all of the above ingredients. Get 2 glasses of water and add 10 grams of this powder to it. Boil this water till only 1/4 remains. Let it cool till it becomes lukewarm and add 3 grams of suddha guggila
churnam. Suddha guggila churnam consists of commiphura mukul, amalaki fruit, terminalia belerica, terminalia chebula and piper longum. Drinking this medicine regularly will cure all skin disease and itching.
Latest Discovery about Heart Leaved Moon Seed curing HIV or AIDS :
Recently it has been discovered that Heart leaved moonseed or tippa tiga has anti HIV proporties. It fights HIV by inhibiting HIV reverse Transcriptase activity.