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.
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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 *

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List of plant activities.
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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.