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Gymnema sylvestre


Order: Gentianales
Family: apocynacea
Genus: Gymnema
Species: G .sylvestre
Common Names: Gymnema, Australian,cowplant and periploca of wood,gurmar
Native to Tropical forests of india, Africa,australia

Other plants of the same genus with medicinal properties

    G .acuminatum Wall
    G .brevifolium Benth
    G .chalmersii Schltr
    G .hirsutum wight
Morphology:
  • It is a woody climber, running over the tops of tall tree.
  • Stems are young and branches are pubescent.
  • The leaves are appox 5cm long and 3 cm broad, acute or shortly acuminate, bas round or heart shape with 6-13 mm long petioles.
  • Flower is umbellate cyme inflorescences.

Uses in Tradition systems of medicine

  • Used as traditional remedy for various ailment.
  • Used for diabetes, malaria, snakebites.
  • Gurmar is hypoglycaemic, astringent, stomachic , antiperiodic , tonic and refrigerant.
  • It is also used to treat other urinary disorder.
Nutritional Properties
  • 73.54% ± 1.68 moisture
  • 19.92% ± 2.59 carbohydrate
  • 2.61% ± 0.58 protein
  • 0.88% ± 0.05 fiber
  • 0.05% ± 0.01 fat

Suggested Medicinal Properties

  • Helps lower blood sugar levels.
  • Anti-diabetic
  • Favors insulin levels by increasing insulin production
  • Improves cholesterol and triglycride level.
  • Reduce heart disease risk
  • Aid wight loss

Active Phytochemicals

1. The leaves of this species contain triterpene saponins that belongs to oleanane and drmmarane class.
2. Anti-diabetic
3. Anti-oxidative
4. Anti-metastatic
5. Anti-inflammatory
6. Lipid lowering
7. Triterpenoid saponins also exhibited anti-tumor.

References

B. A. Ahmed, A. S. Rao, and M. V. Rao, “In vitro callus and in vivo leaf extract of Gymnema sylvestre stimulate β-cells regeneration and anti-diabetic activity in Wistar rats,” Phytomedicine, vol. 17, no. 13, pp. 1033–1039, 2010. View at: Publisher Site | Google Scholar.

G. S. Thakur, R. Sharma, B. S. Sanodiya, M. Pandey, G. B. K. S. Prasad, and P. S. Bisen, “Gymnema sylvestre: an alternative therapeutic agent for management of diabetes,” Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science, vol. 2, no. 12, pp. 1–6, 2012. View at: Publisher Site | Google Scholar.

Parijat kanetkar, rekha singhal, and madhusudan kamat, J Clin Biochem Nutr. 2007 Sep, Gymnema sylvestre: A Memoir, doi: 10.3164/jcbn.2007010, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170951/

Pragya tiwari, B.N.mishra, neelam s.sangwan-editor john b.vincent; Phytochemical and Pharmacological Properties of Gymnema sylvestre: An Important Medicinal Plant; https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/830285/

Farzana Khan, Md.Moklesur Rahman Sarker, Long Chiau Ming, Isa Naina Mohamed ,Cho Zhao,Bassem Y.Sheikh, Hiew Fei Tsong and Mohammad A.Rasid; frontiers in pharmacology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.01223-