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Plant Cassia tora (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Sickle Senna
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
SITOSTEROL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Seed not available 59.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 2508.0 5624.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
TORACHRYSONE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TORALACTONE 6 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Seed not available 31.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiencephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antihangover 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic? 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypertensive 4 Duke, 1992 *