DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Dried pods of the senna fruit.
Quality is laid down in the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.).
HMPC monograph: Well-established use: short-term treatment of occasional constipation. Bowel cleansing before medical interventions. Use for no longer than 1 week.
ESCOP monograph: short-term treatment for occasional constipation.
Commission e-monograph: for constipation.
Empirical medicine: diseases in which soft stools are desired: e.g. anal fissures, hemorrhoids; rectal surgery, bowel cleansing before diagnostic procedures
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Contraindicated
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Caution with drugs that indicate QT prolongation, diuretics, adrenocorticosteroids or licorice root - consult doctor first. Caution: Hypokalemia!
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Children under 12 years, allergy to any of the ingredients, pregnancy and lactation.
Intestinal obstruction and stenosis, atony, appendicitis, inflammatory bowel disease (eg, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), abdominal pain of unknown cause, ileus, severe dehydration condition with water and electrolytes, exhaustion.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/senna---sennespflanze.php
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/herbal-monograph/final-european-union-herbal-monograph-senna-alexandrina-mill-cassia-senna-l-cassia-angustifolia-vahl_en-0.pdf
- Wenigmann M.(2017) Phytotherapie Arzneidrogen Phytopharmaka Anwendung. Urban & Fischer: 5.105 Senna leaves, Alexandrine and Tinnevelly Senna fruits (Sennae folium/fructus acutifoliae/fructus angustifoliaeI p 193-194
- https://www.awl.ch/heilpflanzen/senna_alexandrina/senna.htm
