Senna Leaves is the dried leaflets of Cassia senna L. (Fabaceae).
Synonyms :
Fabaceae are also referred to as Leguminosae. Although recognized as two distinct species in many pharmacopoeias. Cassia acutifolia Delile and C. angustifolia Vahl. are considered botanically to be synonyms of the single species Cassia senna L.
Selected vernacular names
Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, cassia, eshrid, falajin, fan xie ye, filaskon maka, hindisana, illesko, Indian senna, ma khaam khaek, makhaam khaek, mecca senna, msahala, nelaponna, nelatangedu, nilavaka, nilavirai, nubia senna, rinji, sanai, sand hijazi, sanjerehi, sen de alejandria, sen de la india, senna makki, senna, senamikki, sennae folium, sona-mukhi, Tinnevelly senna, true senna.
Description
Low shrubs, up to 1.5 m high, with compound paripinnate leaves, having 3–7 pairs of leaflets, narrow or rounded, pale green to yellowish green. Flowers, tetracyclic, pentamerous, and zygomorphic, have quincuncial calyx, a corolla of yellow petals with brown veins, imbricate ascendent prefloration, and a partially staminodial androeceum. The fruit is a broadly elliptical, somewhat reniform, flattened, parchment-like, dehiscent pod, 4–7 cm long by 2 cm wide, with 6 to 10 seeds.
Our Product
We are grading & cleaning the raw senna leaves (farmer’s grade senna leaves) for our customers for their ready use.
Uses described in folk medicine, not supported by experimental or clinical data.
As an expectorant, a wound dressing, an antidysenteric, and a carminative agent; and for the treatment of gonorrhoea, skin diseases, dyspepsia, fever, and haemorrhoids.