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

Common Names

Coffee Senna

How this plant is used

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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
OXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE	0	Seed	not available	2500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION-1-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION-DIANTHRONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	not available	9560.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	181000.0	249000.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHEIN	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Seed	not available	45.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID	41	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHORIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	not available	41.0	-0.12	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.