Cassia Tora Seeds

Product Description

• Pawad, foetid cassia, andadasi-nga-dadakkel, balatong-aso

• A stout, erect, smooth and rank-smelling herb
• Half-woody annual which is one meter or less in height
• The leaves are 8 to 12 centimeters long and pinnately compound with 6 leaflets
• The leaves are furnished with glands on the main rachis between the leaflets
• The leaflets are obovate to oblong-obovate and 2 to 5 centimeters long
• The flowers are crowded, in pairs, in the axils of the upper leaves
• The pods are slender, up to 15 centimeters long, and 3 to 4 millimeters thick
• The seeds are flattened in the same direction as the pod

• The leaves have the following percentage composition: water
• 72.2 percent; petroleum ether extract
• 9.75 per cent; ether extract
• 1.63 per cent; watery extract, 20 per cent
• These solutions are precipitated by hydrochloric acid
• The precipitate has a close analogy to chrysophanic acid
• Emodin C15H10O5) is trioxymethyllanthraquinone and chrysophanic acid dioxymethyllanthraquinone
• Distinguished by its insolubility in benzene
• The seeds contain phytosterine and glucosenine

• In the form of paste, with limejuice, for ringworm
• Prescribed in the form of decoction for children while teething
• As a poultice or hasten suppuration
• As a mild purgative or as a cure for coughs