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

Common Names

Ringworm Bush

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
1,3,8-TRIHYDROXY-2-METHYL-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,5-DIHYDROXY-8-METHOXY-2-METHYL-ANTHRAQUINONE...GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSAROBIN	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANOL	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANOL-GLYCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	29000.0	35000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	161000.0	181000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
RHEIN	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHEIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	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
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antihepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antineoplastic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.