Plant Cassia tora (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sickle Senna

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
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Seed	3300.0	7400.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	11913.0	26714.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	3180.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	24.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-RUBROFUSARIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	13068.0	29304.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2211.0	4958.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Sprout Seedling	not available	5700.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	not available	12700.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	182000.0	360000.0	1.12	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	132000.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
RHEIN	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBROFUSARIN	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBROFUSARIN-6-BETA-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBROFUSARIN-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	3	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Collagenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	5	Merck 11th Edition
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.