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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
CYSTEINE	13	Seed	not available	2440.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Seed	100.0	1800.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	52900.0	63000.0	-1.07	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	160.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Seed	not available	4920.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Seed	not available	27060.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMINE	5	Seed	not available	21300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Seed	not available	6890.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
HISTAMINE	18	Seed	not available	3590.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	29.0	37.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Seed	not available	5960.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	not available	10900.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	23160.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	955.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	not available	9500.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	2820.0	3220.0	0.11	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	10.0	14.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Seed	not available	44280.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	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
Antianxiety	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarrhythmic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibiotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.