Purging Cassia

Fistel, /. fistula falsetto, -holz, n. = Fiset-holz. -kassie,/. purging cassia, cassia fistula, fistulds, a. fistular, fistulous. 

Purgier-barz, n. scammony. -kassie, -kassia, /. purging cassia, -kom, n. purging grain or seed (grosses) castor bean (kleines)... 

Fig. ioo.—Schizocarpic fruits, i, Cremocarp of Fennel, composed of two mericarps m) and a split carpophore c) 2, carcerulus of the Bugle 3, one-car pelled samara of the Ash 4, double samara of the maple 5, loment of purging cassia, a portion of the pericarp being removed to show chambers, each containing a single seed. 

Cassia fistula. Purging cassia. Cassia fistula. W. II. 518. Pulpa. The pulp of the pods. 

Cassia alata L. Dui Ye Dou (Ringworm bush) (whole plant) Fatty acids, aloe-emodin, rhein chrysarobin, chrysophanic acid, oxymethyl anthraquinone, rutin, isochaksine, quercetin.48-450-510 Improve night vision, migraines, astringent, purgative. 

Cassia angustifolia Vahl. Fan Xie Ye (leaflet) Sennosides, aloe-emodin, dianthrone glucoside, rhein monoglucoside, rhein, kaempferin, myricyl alcohol, anthraquinone derivative.33-510 Purgative, laxative, cathartic. 

Cassia nomame (Sieb.) Honda C. obtusifolia L. C. tora L. Jue Ming Zi (Sicklepod) (seed) Anthraquinones such as emodin, chrysophanol, physcion, rhein aurantio-obtusin, obtusifolin, chryso-obtusin, naphthopyrones, obtusin, aurantio-obtusin rubrofusarin, nor-rubrofusarin, toralacton.33 Purgative, treat ophthalmia, hypercholesterolemia, vaginitis. 

Cassia occidentalis L. C. torosa Cav. Wang Jiang Nan (Coffee senna, sicklepod) (seed, root) Anthraquinones, torosachrysone, n-methylmorpholine, apigenin, galactomannan, cassiollin, xanthorin, dianthronic heteroside, helminthosporin.4-33 496 Mild purgative, lower blood pressure, antioxidative, antiasthmatic, antitoxic, antimalarial, antibacterial, anthraquinones and hepatoprotective activities. 

Coumarins and furanocoumarins, which serve as potent defence compounds in the Apiaceae and Rutaceae, occur in a few, mostly unrelated, species. Only in the genus Psoralea do they have a wide distribution. An-thraquinones, which are potent Na+, K+-ATPase inhibitors and strong purgatives, occur widely in the genus Cassia (Senna), but otherwise only occasionally in Andira and Abrus. 

Senna The dried leaflets of certain soecies of Cassia, especially Cassia acutifolla. used in medicine as a purgative. 

From most varioti of aloes and from senna leaves Cassia acuiifolia, Delile C. augusHifolia, Vahl). Orange-yellow needles from hot EtOH. M.p. 223°. Sol. EtjO, CgHg, hot EtOH. Sol. dU. NHg and cone. H Og to cherry-red sols. Sublimes in COg. Ox. —> rhein. Red. —y chrysophanic acid. Zn dust —> 2-methyl-anthracene. Purgative. 

Laxatives Castor oil (01. ricini) Drastic purgatives (Japal, colocynthus, polophyllum) Anthraquinones (Cascara, senna, danthron, rhubarb, aloes, cassia angustifolia etc.)... 

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