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

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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
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
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Muller, S. O., Eckert, I., Lutz, W. K., Stopper, H. 1996. Genotoxicity of the Laxative Drug Components Emodin, Aloe-emodin and Danthron in Mammalian Cells: Topoisomerase II Mediated? Mutat Res, 371: 165-173.
Toxic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tuberculostatic	1	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	5	Duke, 1992 *
Vasorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	1	Martindale's 28th
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.