Plant Senna obtusifolia (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sicklepod

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALANINE	3	Seed	not available	6500.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
ALATERNIN-1-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Seed	300.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRAQUINONES	6	Seed	10000.0	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Seed	not available	3280.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	850.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	not available	10200.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	42000.0	48100.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	not available	15000.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	475.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	1000.0	2000.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	4100.0	6590.0	0.45	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	665000.0	689000.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOOBTUSIN-1-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID	6	Seed	200.0	6000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID-8-METHYL-ESTER	0	Seed	20.0	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	9.0	32.0	1.56	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AGEs-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antiacid	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacne	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiADD	1	Martindale's 29th