Senna Extract

Calcium Sennoside (Senna Extract)

• Botanical Name : Cassia aungustifolia
• Common Name : Senna Extract
• Standardized For : upto 20% Sennosides by TLC
• Description : Light to dark brown
• Plant part used : Dried leaves

Senna is an Arabian name and the herb was first
brought into use by the Arabian physicians Serapion
and Mesue. Traditionally Senna was used in love sachets.
Plants growing at different localities of India have also been
found to contain different amount of sennoside B in leaves and
pods, and also differ in chromosome morphology. The leaves
and pods of this plant contain the commercially important laxative sennoside B.

Medicinal Values:

• Senna is an excellent laxative.
• Senna is employed in treating many other ailments like, anemia,
• typhoid, cholera, jaundice, rheumatism, gout, tumours, probably in
• leprosy, in splenic enlargement, foul breath and bronchitis.
• It is also used in the treatment of amoebic dysentery
• and a mild liver stimulant.
• Effective in constipation, thermogenic, cathartic, liver
• tonic, abdominal disorders, leucoderma, splenomegaly,
• hepatomegaly, dyspepsia, cough and skin disorders.
• Sennoside acts on the lower bowel and is especially useful
• in improving / lightening constipation.