Business Type Manufacturer, Exporter, Supplier
Cultivation Type Organic
Shelf Life 3Months
Feature Aromatic Fragrance, Good Flavour
Product Details
Part Leaf
Used For Acute constipation
Place of Origin India
Senna is a large genus of flowering plants and belongs to the Caesalpinioideae family. This diverse genus is extensively found in the tropics. Its leaves and Pods are being used as medicines since a long time. The large number of uses of Senna make it a very popular plant among the masses across the globe.
Senna leaves is grown from seed and requires plenty of sun. The plant is a small perennial shrub, growing from 5 to 8 meters in height with a straight woody stem and clusters of flowers that resemble candles, eventually turning into seed pods. The senna leaves have a stronger action than the senna pods. The part of this plant used medicinally valuable and its a safe and effective medicinal plant used widely throughout the world.
Constituents:
Senna contains hydroxyanthracene glycosides known as sennosides. These glycosides stimulate colon activity and thus have a laxative effect.
Senna leaves contain many anthraquinone compounds, including dianthrone glycosides, which make up 1. 5 to 3 percent of the herb. Senna leaves is a strong anthraquione containing purgative that is used only in acute constipation.
Uses:
In india ayurvedic medicine, senna is used for constipation and also for skin problems, jaundice, bronchitis, liver disease, splenomegaly, typhoid fever and anemia. Tablets are the most commonly taken for constipation. An infusion is combined with fresh ginger and cloves and used for mild constipation. Tinctures are used by herbalists for short-term constipation.
The world health organization (who) approves senna leaves for short-term use in occasional constipation (who, 1999) .
Senna is considered a cleansing herb because of its cathartic effect and has been used as a natural laxative for centuries.
Senna leaves is grown from seed and requires plenty of sun. The plant is a small perennial shrub, growing from 5 to 8 meters in height with a straight woody stem and clusters of flowers that resemble candles, eventually turning into seed pods. The senna leaves have a stronger action than the senna pods. The part of this plant used medicinally valuable and its a safe and effective medicinal plant used widely throughout the world.
Constituents:
Senna contains hydroxyanthracene glycosides known as sennosides. These glycosides stimulate colon activity and thus have a laxative effect.
Senna leaves contain many anthraquinone compounds, including dianthrone glycosides, which make up 1. 5 to 3 percent of the herb. Senna leaves is a strong anthraquione containing purgative that is used only in acute constipation.
Uses:
In india ayurvedic medicine, senna is used for constipation and also for skin problems, jaundice, bronchitis, liver disease, splenomegaly, typhoid fever and anemia. Tablets are the most commonly taken for constipation. An infusion is combined with fresh ginger and cloves and used for mild constipation. Tinctures are used by herbalists for short-term constipation.
The world health organization (who) approves senna leaves for short-term use in occasional constipation (who, 1999) .
Senna is considered a cleansing herb because of its cathartic effect and has been used as a natural laxative for centuries.
Botanical Name :- Cassia senna L.
Available form :- Senna Leaves (large cut & crushed)
Season :- Available all the year
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Senna Leaves P II
Senna Leaves P III
Senna Leaves P V
Senna T-Cut
Senna Powder (Any mesh size of your choice)
Senna Pods
Senna Mix
Certified Organic Senna
Sudanese Senna, Cassia acutifolia, Del C. Senna L is a perennial 1-2 m height undershrub. The stem is erect, smooth, and pale green to light brown with long spreading ascending branches. Leaves are compound with four to six pairs of leaflets. The full grown leaflets are bluish-green to pale- green in color and emit a characteristic fetid smell when crushed. The flowers are small and yellow and axillary arranged racemes. The pods are broadly oblong about 5-8 cm long
and 2-3 cm broad, green in beginning and change to greenish-brown to dark brown on maturity. Each pod has 5 to 7 ovate, compressed, smooth, dark-brown seeds.
The two most widely exported and officially recognized species of seena are C. acutifolia and C. angustifolia.
Cassia senna; used as medicine, cosmetics, health hygiene and food supplements in improving the quality of life
Both Pods & leaves are used as natural laxative to treat constipation. They act on the large intestine to stimulate peristalsis (the muscular activity of the colon leading to elimination). It is known that several countries utilize the leaves of different indigenously available species for the same purpose. Senna also used as an expectorant, a wound dressing, an anti-dysenteric, and a carminative agent. It is useful in the treatment of gonorrhea, skin diseases, dyspepsia, fevers and hemorrhoids. The herb is used in the form of crude plant material or powder as oral infusion or extracts (liquid or solid). It is always advised to use the drug under the supervision of Physician, because the excess use of senna may have adverse effect leading to sudden and intense stomach pains and colic or abdominal pains.
