Tinospora cordifolia has the effects of clearing heat, detoxification, dispersing stasis, and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used for treating throat inflammation, gum bleeding, dysentery, diarrhea, ulcers, itchy skin, hemorrhoids, and injuries. Let's learn about the original form of Tinospora cordifolia and its prescriptions together.
Tinospora cordifolia is a climbing shrub or vine, a small shrub, growing 1-3m in length. The leaves are opposite; petiole is 5-8mm long; leaf blade is thick and papery, inverted ovate or long elliptic-ovate, 3-4cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, occasionally up to 7cm long and 2.5cm wide, with a rounded, blunt, or slightly concave apex, and a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, often with a thin white powder on the back, raised midvein, and indistinct lateral veins.
The inflorescence is cymose, axillary or lateral, borne on leafless branches from the previous year, 3-8mm long, finely pubescent, with 3-8 flowers, with 1-2 whorls of bracts at the base; pedicel is about 1.5mm long, sometimes finely pubescent, bracteoles are lanceolate or long elliptic, with ciliate margin, usually without glands; flowers are tetramerous, about 2mm long; sepals are connate at the base to about 1/2 or 1/3, equal, ovate or triangular, abruptly acute at the apex, with glands;
petals are white or yellowish, separate, ovate or long elliptic, rounded or blunt at the apex, about 2mm long, with ciliate margin, densely covered with papillate projections inside, and with glands; stamens degenerate in female flowers, slightly longer than petals in male flowers, connate with petals at the base, filaments erect, anthers glandular on the back.
pistil degenerates in male flowers, slightly longer than petals in female flowers, ovary bottle-shaped, style slender, stigma flattened or somewhat shield-shaped. Fruit is globose, about 5mm in diameter, with inconspicuous glands. Flowering period is from December to March of the following year, and fruiting period is from April to June.
【Prescriptions of Tinospora cordifolia】
1. For enteritis, dysentery, and sore throat, take 30g of Tinospora cordifolia root, decoct in water and take orally.
2. For tinea capitis in children, take 1.5kg of Tinospora cordifolia root, decoct in water to make a concentrated solution, and wash the affected area with warm solution twice a day. Continue for 3 days.
3. For prolapse of rectum or uterus, take 30g of Tinospora cordifolia root, 15g of castor bean root, and 25g of Solanum torvum root, add chicken meat, and cook together for oral administration.
4. For sore throat in diphtheria, take 15g of Tinospora cordifolia root, decoct in water and gargle.
5. For pharyngitis, take 15g of Tinospora cordifolia root and 15g of Gardenia jasminoides, decoct in water and take orally.
6. For anemia, take 30g of Tinospora cordifolia fruit, decoct in water and take orally.
7. For eczema, take an appropriate amount of Tinospora cordifolia leaves, decoct in water and wash the affected area.
8. For dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, take 30g of Tinospora cordifolia root, decoct in water and take orally.
