Senna occidentalis (L.) Link
| Synonym : | Cassia ciliata Raf. Cassia falcata L. Cassia occidentalis L. Ditramexa occidentalis Britton & Rose |
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| Bangla Name : | Kalkasunde, Eski, Essi, Tolikoroi. ,Ka-ja, Ka-ja baong (Marma), Rotha (Tipra), Dangor Dattlong (Chakma). |
| English Name : | Western Senna, Negro Coffee. |
| Family : | Caesalpinaeae |
| Disease : | Alexiteric, antiperiodic, cough, hiccup, asthma, fever, worms, purgative,ringworm, fevers, neuralgia and dropsy. |
| Description : | A diffuse undershrub, 0.6-1.5 m high. Leaves compound, 15-20 cm long, leaflets 3-5 pairs, 2.5-10 cm long, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in short peduncled few-flowered, axillary, corymbose racemes, and forming a terminal panicle. Petals 5, 1.3 cm long, ovate-oblong, yellow. Pods 10-12.5 cm long, thick, recurved, compressed, distinctly torulose |
| Distribution : | All over the country in roadsides and fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves, pods and seeds contain anthraquinones, anthraquinone glycosides, emodin and sennosides. Leaves also contain flavones, dianthronic heteroside. Roots and flowers contain phytosterol, dihydroxy-anthraquinones, physcion and its glucoside, emodin, chry |
| Uses : | The leaves are alexiteric, antiperiodic, depurant and febrifuge, cure cough, hiccup, asthma, fever, warm decoction is given to children to cure worms. Leaves, roots and seeds are purgative. Seeds are tonic and febrifuge. The roasted seeds are excellent di |
| Habit : | Under shrub |