Botanical Information Senna alexandrina Mill. (under development)
Synonyms | Cassia acutifolia Delile Descr. |
Cassia acutifolia var. eriocarpa Maire | |
Cassia aethiopica Guibourt | |
Cassia alexandrina (Mill.) Spreng. | |
Cassia angustifolia Vahl Symb. | |
Cassia decipiens Desv. | |
Cassia ehrenbergii Bisch. | |
Cassia elongata Lem.-Lis. | |
Cassia lanceolata Forssk. | |
Cassia lenitiva Bisch. | |
Cassia ligustrinoides Schrank | |
Cassia medica Forssk. | |
Cassia medicinalis Bisch. | |
Cassia orientalis Pers. | |
Cassia ovata Mérat & Lens ex Geiger | |
Cassia senna L. | |
Cassia senna var. eriocarpa (Maire) Maire | |
Senna acutifolia Batka | |
Senna alexandrina Garsault | |
Senna angustifolia (Vahl) Batka | |
Senna officinalis Roxb. | |
Common name (en) | Alexandrian senna |
Common name (ar) | سنا إسكندراني |
Common name (de) | Alexandrinische Senna |
Common name (fr) | Séné |
Common name (ja) | センナ |
Common name (nl) | Sennapeul |
Common name (ru) | Сенна александрийская |
Common name (th) | มะขามแขก |
Sample preparation | To 0.5 g of the powdered herbal drug add 5 mL of a mixture of equal volumes of ethanol (96%), water and heat to boiling. Centrifuge and use the supernatant liquid |
Mobile phase | Acetic acid, water, ethyl acetate, propanol 1:30:40:40 (v/v/v/v) |
Derivatization | Treat with a 20% v/v solution of nitric acid and heat at 120 °C for 10 min. Allow to cool and treat with a 50 g/L solution of potassium hydroxide in ethanol (50% v/v) until the zones appear |
Sample preparation | To 0.5 g of the powdered herbal drug add 5 mL of a mixture of equal volumes of ethanol (96%), water and heat to boiling. Centrifuge and use the supernatant liquid |
Mobile phase | Acetic acid, water, ethyl acetate, propanol 1:30:40:40 (v/v/v/v) |
Derivatization | Treat with a 20% v/v solution of nitric acid and heat at 120 °C for 10 min. Allow to cool and treat with a 50 g/L solution of potassium hydroxide in ethanol (50% v/v) until the zones appear |
Sample preparation | Weigh 1.0 g of the powdered sample and place it in a 50-mL conical flask, then add 10 mL of ethanol (50%). Sonicate (270 W) the mixture for 30 min. Filter and transfer the filtrate to a 50-mL round-bottomed flask. Evaporate the solvent to dryness at reduced pressure in a rotary evaporator. Dissolve the residue in 5 mL of ethanol (50%) |
Mobile phase | n-propanol, ethyl acetate, water, glacial acetic acid 3:3:2:0.2 (v/v/v/v) |
Derivatization | No derivatization |