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

Common Names

Coffee 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
EO	0	Seed	175.0	182.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	23000.0	39000.0	-1.19	Duke, 1992 *
FUNICULOSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HELMINTHOSPORIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	not available	1300.0	5.34	Duke, 1992 *
ISLANDICIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JACEIDIN-7-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	7850.0	8164.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	1575.0	1638.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	2880.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	42.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
MATTEUCINOL-7-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Seed	not available	360000.0	1.02	Duke, 1992 *
O-ALPHA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSYL-(1-6)-BETA-D-MANNOPYRANOSYL...	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-ALPHA-D-MANNOPYRANOSYL-(1-4)-O-BETA-D-MANNOPYRASONYL...	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	7675.0	7982.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
OXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE	0	Root	not available	3000.0	-1.00	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
Pesticide	10	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pigment	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Mueller, S. O., Stopper, H. 1999. Characterization of the Genotoxicity of Anthraquinones in Mammalian Cells. Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1428: 406-414.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Proteinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	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.
PTK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.