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Senna, a small, scrubby plant that grows in the deserts of North Africa has been used for centuries as a natural laxative. It is remarkably effective, and extracts of the leaves and pods are used by pharmaceutical manufacturers to create over the counter laxatives that are promoted as gentle laxatives.
Senna appears to have been cultivated in England about 1640. By keeping the plants in a hot-bed all the summer, they frequently flowered; but rarely perfected their seeds. Commercial Senna is prepared for use by garbling, or picking out the leaflets and rejecting the lead-stalks, impurities, and leaves of other plants. The amount annually exported is about 8,000 bales of each of the varieties, and the price is high, owing to the failure of the crops at certain seasons. Good Senna may be known by the bright, fresh, yellowishgreen colour of the leaves, with a faint and peculiar odor.
Suggested Amount:
Unless otherwise prescribed: The finely chopped or powdered pods, or powdered dry extract is used for making an infusion or decoction. Hot water (approximately 150ml) is poured over 0.5-2 g of finely chopped senna pods and after 10-15 minutes passed through a strainer. For constipation, a cup of the freshly prepared infusion is drunk in the morning and/or at night before going to bed. The average daily dosage as a laxative contains 20-60mg hydroxyanthracene. 1 teaspoon = ca. 2 g.
Drug Interactions:
In large dosages, the anthraquinones-type laxative compounds may increase the action of other laxatives and should not be taken at the same time. With chronic use/abuse, a potassium deficiency may develop that may potentiate the effects of cardiotonic glycosides.
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