• Botanical Name : Cassia Angustifolia
• Family Name : Caesalpinaceae
• Common Name : Senna, Indian Senna, Tinnervelly Senna, Cassia Senna.
• Part Used : Pods, Stems And Leaves.
• Habitat : Cultivated in dry lands of southern & western india, and indegenous to arabia.
• Product offered : Leaves, Fruit, Pod

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.