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Botanical Name |
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Cassia absus L. |
English
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Four-leaved senna, black grain, pig’s senna, tropical sensitive-pea |
Synonym(s) |
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Chamaecrista absus (L.) Irwin & Barneby |
Family |
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Caesalpiniaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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An erect annual herb, 15 to 60 cm tall. Leaves paripinnate; rachis bearing a linear gland between leaflets. Petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long; stipules linear attenuate, 2.5 to 4 mm long, persistent. Flowers yellow or reddish yellow, borne in few flowered racemes; calyx hairy, 4 mm long, petals 6 mm long, obovate-cuneate, reddish-yellow. Fruit pod, compressed, thin, linear oblong 2.5 to 4.5 cm long. Seeds 5 to 8 per pod, dark brown. |
| Herb Effects |
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Reduces blood pressure and induces muscles to relax slightly (seed); diuretic and stimulant (seed receptacle). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside, iso-chaksine and chaksine (seed); rhein (hydrolysis of pod) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Chaksine |
486-53-3 |
3,11-bis(2-amino-4,5
-dihydro-3H-imidazol
-4-yl)-7,15-dimethyl
-1,9-dioxa
cyclohex
adecane-2,10-dione |
C22H38N6O4 |
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| Rhein |
Not Available |
4,5-dihydroxy-9,10-d
ioxo-anthracene-2-ca
rboxylic acid |
C15H8O6 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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For conjunctivitis and skin diseases (leaf and seed); found efficacious in cases of ringworm, and form one of the ingredients of aphrodisiacs (seeds). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Cheema MA. Priddle OD. Pharmacological investigations of isochaksine. an alkaloid isolated from the seeds of Cassia absus Linn. Arch Int Pharmacodyn Ther1965 Dec;158(2):307-13. |
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