Plant Chemicals <\/strong>
\n(+)- flavenol (isorhamnetin, kaempfeol), anrathquinone (rhein, emodin), sennoside A, sennoside B, menitol, sodium potassium tartarte, salisilic acid, crisophenic acid, volatile oils, resins, calcium oxalate.<\/p>\n

Uses & Benefits of Indian Senna<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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• Indian senna decreases pita and allows free movement of vata in the body.<\/li>\n
• The herb stimulates liver for proper secretion of enzymes in the body.<\/li>\n
• It helps in lowering bowels and increasing the peristaltic movement of the intestines.<\/li>\n
• Indian senna purifies blood and restores the metabolic imbalance lost due to indigestion.<\/li>\n
• The powder made from crushing leaves and fruit is helpful in treating constipation and indigestion.<\/li>\n
• It is useful in relieving people from the condition of osteoarthritis, gout and rheumatoid arthritis.<\/li>\n
• The herb is used as an expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative and laxative.<\/li>\n
• Indian senna is handy in treating loss of appetite, hepatomegaly, spleenomegaly, malaria, skin diseases, jaundice and anemia.<\/li>\n
• The herb has purgative, anthchiintic, antipyretic, cathartic, laxative, vermifuge and diuretic properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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  Description A small erect shrub, Indian senna attains a height of about 2 to 3 feet. Its stem is pale green, smooth and erect. The spread out branches possess around 4 to 5 pairs of leaves. These leaves are pale yellowish-green in color, elongated spear shaped with pointed apex, about 1 to 2-inch in length … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[337,1147,340,9,338,339,342,341],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herba","tag-cassia","tag-indian-senna","tag-laxative","tag-medicinal-plants","tag-senna","tag-sonamukhi","tag-states-and-territories-of-india","tag-west-bengal","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Cassia-Angustifolia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}