Cassia Angustifolia
Family Name : CAESALPINACEAE
Botanical Name : CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA
Common Name : SENNA, INDIAN
SENNA, TINNEVELLY SENNA, CASSIA SENNA
Part Used : PODS, STEMS,
LEAVES
Habitat : Cultivated in dry
lands of Southern & Western India, and indegenous to Arabia.
Uses : It is recognised by
British and US pharmacopoeias. It is useful in habitual costiveness. It
lowers bowels, increases peristaltic movements of the colon by its
local action upon the intestinal
wall. It is used as expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative
and laxative. . |