Sharmila depends on where you bought the giloy stems? at some ayurveda store? or market vendors who bring herbs and roots how long after harvesting/procuring from where it was growing...
what we see in large cities is quite woody, with outer skin all tightly stuck to the stem itself or flaked off. yet the cross section would look like a central spot with spokes of wheel type structures going to the periphery this link is from flickr, picture by Subhada Nikharge <https://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/13981069535/in/photostream/> it clearly shows the chakra like structure that doctor in that utube was taking about. secondly , it also shows that the skin is paper thin and flaking. hope this helped usha di On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:01 PM Sharmila Punde <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > Many videos of Ayurvedic practitionars or traditional Ayurvedic > healers specify one charactristic to identify Giloy(Tinospora cordifolia). > Even read in one book about the same character to identify this plant. > > Providing the following link which says, Tinospora cordifolia has very > delicate skin as bark after certain period of life of plant. If we remove > skin, inside there is fleshy stem. > I had Tinospora cordifolia for three years, but never observed such fleshy > stem. Stem of my T. cordifolia was not such fleshy. Such kind of skin never > seen on it. The characters like leaf veins, flowers, fruit, cross cut > section of stem showing tiny holes was matching exactly. But this character > of delicate skin and fleshy stem never occured. > > Link to youtube:- > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULrX40E3a4 > Note that it is free link for all by channel 'Being Positive'. > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoWPdWyn2LMNf-HACa46qCQ> > > Question: Is this the primary identification character of Giloy(Tinospora > cordifolia) plant? > > Thanks > Sharmila > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
