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noun

Senna n.

(Med.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (Cassia acutifolia, Cassia angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

(Bot.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder.

Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

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"Senna" Quotes from Famous Books

... this period, which waged open war against rhubarb, and armed the coasts of the Continent against the introduction of senna, did not save the Continental system from destruction. Ridicule attended the installation of the odious prevotal courts. The president of the Prevotal Court at Hamburg, who was a Frenchman, delivered an address, in which he endeavoured to prove ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... glass of cold water on rising in the morning often aids in keeping the bowels active. Of the laxative drugs which may be used at such a time, cascara sagrada and senna are among the least harmful. Two recipes of senna preparation follow, and may be tried ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... great deliberation, 'that I've left nobody but an errand boy in my shop. He is a very nice boy, my Lord, but he is not acquainted with drugs; and I know that the prevailing impression on his mind is, that Epsom salts means oxalic acid; and syrup of senna, laudanum. That's all, my Lord.' With this, the tall chemist composed himself into a comfortable attitude, and, assuming a pleasant expression of countenance, appeared to have ...

— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald

... of low voices. Beyond it was a door that gave upon more stairs, and at the top of them a small bare room known as the lunch-room. Here was a great locker, still marked with the labels that had shown where senna leaves and tansy and hepatica had been kept in some earlier stage of Hunter, Baxter & Hunter's existence, and now filled with the girls' lunch-boxes, and rubber overshoes, and hair-brushes. There was a small gas-stove in this ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

Words linked to "Senna" : bush, Senna obtusifolia, shrub, tinnevelly senna, tanner's cassia, Senna occidentalis, Indian senna, ringworm cassia, Cassia augustifolia, Cassia acutifolia, Senna alata, Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, genus Senna, ringworm bush, coffee senna, Cassia auriculata, bladder senna, true senna, Senna marilandica, styptic weed, avaram, Senna alexandrina, Cassia occidentalis, Cassia alata