SENNA.
Cassia obovata, Colladon; (C. Senna, Linn.); also C.
acutifolia, Delile; C. Lanceolata, Lam.Senna, the Arabian name; Senna Alexandrina.
Natural order
, Leguminosæ.
Preparation
, Triturations of the leaves.
(The active principle, Cathartic acid and its salts, is not soluble in
Alcohol).
Authorities.
1,
Wigan, Lancet, 1846, 1, 28, three children poisoned by Senna tea; 2, Bley and Diesel, Pharm. Journ., 1850
(Pharm. Cent. Bl., 1849, No. 8); 3,
Smith, Pharm. Journ., 1868-69, p. 315, effects of repeated doses; 4, Bourgoin and Bouchut, Journ. Pharm. Chim.,
XII, 305, fourth series, effects of 5 to 15-grain doses of the
“mucilaginous matter in Senna” in fifteen children; 5, same, a child of twelve took the
mucilaginous matter, followed on third day by 10 grams of fluid extract;
6, same, 15 grains of fluid extract
in a child of fourteen; 7, same, 6
to 30 gram doses of fluid extract in thirty-one children; 8, Berridge, Am. J. of Hom., M. M., 8, 126,
Mr. — inhaled infusion of Senna; 9,
same, Dr. B. inhaled same.
NOSE.
►
Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (especially of hands), exhaustion,
and panting breathing, [8].
FACE.
►
Livid lips, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Nausea, lasting some time, [9]. ► Three had nausea, [7]. ► The
so-called Cathartin, in doses of 2 1/2 to 3 drachms, caused only nausea
and disagreeable eructations, [2].
► The brown resin, in doses of from
15 to 80 grains, merely caused nausea, and in larger doses, vomiting, [2]. ►
Some vomited, [7]. ► Irritation of the whole mucous membrane
of the alimentary canal, extending even to the nostrils, [3].
ABDOMEN.
►
Two had griping pains, [7]. [10.] ►
Fourteen had *colic, [7].
STOOL.
►
In two cases there was but one motion; in seven cases, two; in two
three; in six, four; in five, five; in three, six; in three, seven.
These evacuations were yellowish, more or less abundant, and after the
purgation there was neither uneasiness nor fever, [7]. ► Upon
seven it had a slight purgative effect, characterized in three by a
single muddy evacuation, and by two to four yellowish liquid evacuations
in others, [4]. ► Two liquid painless evacuations, [5]. ►
Two *liquid evacuations, with griping pains,
[6].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
In doses of 60 grains it appeared to act as a diuretic, and could be
detected for a short time in the urine, in consequence of the color
which it assumes on the addition of potash, [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Most aggravated dyspnœa, [1]. ► Panting breathing, [8].
GENERALITIES.
►
Universal swelling, [1]. ► Exhaustion, [8].
FEVER.
[20.]
► Heat (especially of the hands), [8].® 2000
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