What is Senna Extract Powder?
Senna is a shrub that grows in Indian, Pakistani, southern China and many other places. Its name is derived from the Arabic word "sena" and has been used in ancient Indian and ancient Greek medicine since the 9th century. The shrub can grow to about two feet tall, with green stems, pods and yellow shovel-shaped leaves. Its alternate leaves are evergreen, with four to five pairs of lanceolate or obovate gray-green fragile leaflets. The flowers are small and yellow, with five irregular petals with claws. The fruit is wrapped in a rectangular pod about 5cm long. Leaves and pods or fruits can be used medicinally.
The effect of senna
1. Hemostasis
Senna leaf is a kind of Chinese medicinal material that can stop bleeding. It has obvious astringent effect and can shorten the coagulation time of human body. Usually, people can take it directly when they have stomach bleeding, duodenal bleeding, coughing up blood and vomiting blood. Used as medicine or senna, people can quickly stop bleeding after taking medicine. People extract and process tomato leaves to obtain Chinese patent medicines, which can be directly sprayed on the part of gastric bleeding under the gastroscope, and the hemostatic effect after the medicine is particularly good.
2. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Senna is also a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. It can not only inhibit the activity of various bacteria in the human body, but also promote the production of antibodies in the human body, which can prevent viruses from harming human cells. People usually use it to decoct water and drink it. It can eliminate Escherichia coli, diphtheria and Staphylococcus aureus in the body, and prevent the human body from feeling sick due to these bacteria.
3. Diuresis and swelling
After senna is used as medicine, it can also diuresis and reduce swelling. People can use senna to assist when they have difficulty urinating or body edema and edema. When assisting, an appropriate amount of senna can be directly brewed with boiling water After taking it, it can also be taken together with Chinese herbal medicines such as Morning Glory and Dabupi that have diuretic and swelling effects. Most patients can make the edema disappear quickly after taking the medicine.
4. Aids constipation
Senna leaves contain certain anthrone derivatives, which can effectively promote the stomach, so that the symptoms of diarrhea will appear in the body. However, it should be noted that this diarrhea symptom may also be accompanied by abdominal pain, so there is no need to be too nervous. Senna leaves contain sennoside A and sennoside B, which can be easily absorbed by the small intestine and decomposed in the liver. The final decomposed substances will promote the nerves in the large intestine and cause contraction , and eventually symptoms of diarrhea appear.
What are the dangers of drinking too much senna?
Senna leaves contain a substance called sennoside, which can inhibit the absorption of water by the large intestine and increase the contents of the intestine sharply. It mainly has certain toxic and side effects on the stomach. Vomiting, black stools, etc., and in severe cases, symptoms such as dizziness, unsteady walking, and facial numbness may also appear.
Precautions for drinking senna leaves
1. Senna leaves are cold in nature, bitter in taste, and have a strong purging effect. Therefore, it is not suitable to take senna leaves for those who are weak and have diarrhea, long-term constipation, women who are breastfeeding, menstruating, and pregnant women.
2. It is best not to take senna leaf together with rhubarb and aloe vera, both of which are irritating laxatives, taking them together may cause certain harm to the body.
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