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

Common Names

Coffee Senna

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

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
Antiglaucomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotoxic	3	Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
AntiHIV	4	Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypertensive	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiimpotence	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinsomniac	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.