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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Senna obtusifolia (Fabaceae)

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
SUCROSE 14 Seed *
SUGAR 0 Seed 81000.0 83000.0 0.07 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 5940.0 -0.49 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 2180.0 -0.39 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 4420.0 -0.77 *
VALINE 3 Seed 7420.0 -0.57 *
WATER 0 Seed 96800.0 97200.0 -0.50 *
XYLOSE 3 Seed 2460.0 -1.00 *
ZINC 77 Seed 10.0 76.0 0.88 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antianxiety 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarrhythmic 3 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 7 *
Antiasthmatic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiatherogenic 1 *
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 *
Anticancer 1 *
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 *
Anticancer (Colon) 1 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 *
Anticancer (Liver) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *
Anticanker 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.