Abstract

Postmenopausal age is such a special stage in the life of women. It has been further estimated that postmenopausal women in India would constitute about 14.1% of the total population by 2025. Several irritable symptoms attributed to menopause are often encountered during these later years of life and freedom from related symptoms and comfort could add life to years. Increasing the immunocompetence in the selected low immunocompetent postmenopausal women is the urgent need to prevent secondary infection and the main aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Tinospora cordifolia on low immunocompetent postmenopausal women. A group of 200 postmenopausal women was selected and divided into two groups A and B of 100 each. 100 women served as the experimental group and the remaining 100 served as the control group. The experimental group A consisted of postmenopausal women with low immunocompetence and was treated with 525 mg/day of water extract of T. cordifolia. The control group was placed on placebo treatment. The impact was studied in terms of weight changes and biochemical parameters representing the symptoms in question over a period of six months. Findings as related to low immunocompetence revealed that T. cordifoliaproved to be excellent booster of immunocompetence.

Key words: Water extract of Tinospora cordifolia, postmenopausal women, immunoglobulin A, G, M, complementary C3, C4, nutritional counseling.