Cassia Angustifolia

Family Name : CAESALPINACEAE

Botanical Name : CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA

Common Name : SENNA, INDIAN SENNA, TINNEVELLY SENNA, CASSIA SENNA

Part Used : PODS, STEMS, LEAVES

Habitat : Cultivated in dry lands of Southern & Western India, and indegenous to Arabia.

Uses : It is recognised by British and US pharmacopoeias. It is useful in habitual costiveness. It lowers bowels, increases peristaltic movements of the colon by its local action upon the intestinal wall. It is used as expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative and laxative.