- Senna X-Prep® ... Senna is used on a short-term basis to treat constipation. It also is used to empty the bowels before surgery and certain medical procedures. Senna is in a class of medications called stimulant ...
- Senna is the fruit (pod) or leaf of the plant Senna alexandrina. It is approved in the US as a laxative for short-term treatment of constipation. Senna contains many chemicals called sennosides. Sennosides irritate the ...
- NLM Digital Collections - The cyclopaedia of practical medicine: comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of ...Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1849-59... purgatives, such as calomel combined with rhubarb, or senna with a neutral salt, may be given. Afterwards, ... the bowels managed by rhubarb, castor oil, or senna, so as to ensure one or two moderate ...
- NLM Digital Collections - Pharmacologia: comprehending the art of prescribing upon fixed and scientific principles : ...Publication: New-York : Lockwood, 1823-24... D. Enema Cathart. D. Enema Fatid. D. Syrup. Senna. D. Adulterations. There are several varieties in the ... Niger. Besides which, Cap- sicum, Piper nigrum, and Senna, have been said to yield analogous principles of ...
- NLM Digital Collections - A handbook of therapeuticsPublication: New York : William Wood and Co., 1880... to be slightly purgative. Mixed with infusion of senna, it is useful when a tonic and purga- ... tonic and a purgative are required, aloes, like senna, may be usefully mixed with some bitter, as ...
- NLM Digital Collections - Modern domestic medicine : being a treatise divested of professional terms on the nature, ...Publication: New York : Collins, 1829... mild laxative medicine, such as the electuary of senna, or one or OF THE WHITES, &C» 423 ... laxative me- dicine, such as the electuary of senna, of which the bulk of a nut- meg ...
- NLM Digital Collections - The home physician, or, A treatise upon the cure of diseases by the botanical system of ...Publication: Louisville, Ky. : Printed at Dana's Office, 1832... night; also, to make a free use of senna; it may# be given in substance to the ... operate mildly on the bowels, without griping as senna does. Of the syrup, prepared by boiling slow- ...
- NLM Digital Collections - Medical lexicon : a dictionary of medical science : containing a concise account of the ...Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846... c. des Boutiques, Cassia fistula—c.Seni, Cassia senna. CASSE LUNETTES, Cyanus segetum, Eu- phrasia officinalis. CASSEENA, ... caryophyllata—c. Canella, Laurus cassia—c. Egyptian, Cassia senna. Cas'sia Fis'tula, Cas'sia nigra, Cassia ...
- NLM Digital Collections - Health at home, or, Hall's family doctor : showing how to invigorate and preserve health, ...Publication: Hartford, Conn. : Betts, 1874... generally brings it all away. pink root and senna, each half an ounce, half a drachm of ... be had by enemas, or by syrup of senna or syrup of rhubarb; feA^er and irritation ...
- NLM Digital Collections - A practical dictionary of materia medica : including the composition, preparation, and uses ...Publication: Philadelphia : Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1841... forms an ingredient in the Confectio Sennas (see Senna), and in the following formula of the Pharmacopoeia, ... a proper consistence is attained. CASSIA MARILANDICA. American Senna. Folia. The leaves. This is a shrubby plant ...
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