Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia) is one of history's most famous adaptogens. An adaptogen supports normal immune function and the body's natural response to daily stress. Traditional herbalists would say that adaptogens are plants that "bring the body back into balance."

• Guduchi is part of the "Rasayana" category of Ayurvedic plants.traditional rejuvenators and important daily tonics. Guduchi supports the normal function of the immune system by supporting normal levels of white blood cells like macrophages.


• Scientists from the Ayurveda Research Center, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India discussed the effectiveness of a normally functioning immune system with Guduchi in a paper published in 2008. (Phytotherapy Research, 2008 Apr;22(4):425-41.)


• Guduchi was used historically by other world cultures, too. In the Philippines, recorded early in the last century, the natives used a variety of the Tinsopora plant as a general body-support tonic. They called it Makabuhay, meaning, "you may live." (US Dispensatory 1918, Remington, Wood, et al, Ed.)