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Hindawi Publishing Corporation BioMed Research International Volume 2014, Article ID 902138, 11 pages /10.1155/2014/902138 Research Article Impact of Seasons and Dioecy on Therapeutic Phytoconstituents of Tinospora cordifolia, a Rasayana Drug Namrta Choudhry,1 Shweta Singh,2 Mohammad Badruzzaman Siddiqui,1 and Sayyada Khatoon2 1 Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India 2 Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India Correspondence should be addressed to Sayyada Khatoon; sayyadak@ Received 27 February 2014; Revised 4 July 2014; Accepted 6 July 2014; Published 10 August 2014 Academic Editor: Jose Teixeira Copyright 漏 2014 Namrta Choudhry et al. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tinospora cordifolia (hunb.) Miers, Menispermaceae, is a dioecious creeper, commonly known as 鈥淕iloe鈥 or 鈥淕uduchi鈥 with signiicant medicinal importance in the traditional systems of medicine. It is designated as Rasayana drug in Ayurveda and recommended for a number of diseases and also as adaptogen and immunomodulator. he safety and eicacy of herbal medicines are closely correlated with the quality of the source materials. he aim of this study is to see the efect of seasons on phytoconstituents and how these vary in male and female stem samples of T. cordifolia. he study revealed that total phenolics and total sugar concentration obtained highest values in summer season while starch and tannin content were found maximum in winter season in both the genders. However, biomarkers, tinosporaside and be