International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The traditional systemmeans the use of herbal plants for every disease. Due to presence of bioactive compounds the plants are useful in every disease even in chronic diseases like cancer, neuroleptic diseases, etc. Tinospora cordifolia is a shrub commonly known as Giloy or Guduchi. It contains a wide variety of bioactive compounds like alkaloids, flavonoids, amino acids, proteins, glycosides, steroids, carbohydrates, and diterpenoids which are helpful for human being as a medicine. Tinospora  cordifolia shows activities like an anti-inflammatory, antiulcer, antioxidant, antineoplastic, anticancer, antipyretic, analgesic. Antidiabetic activity is very common use of Tinospora cordifolia. In this review we discussed about some pharmacological activities of Tinospora cordifolia.