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Published in Brijesh Kumar, Vikas Bajpai, Vikaskumar Gond, Subhashis Pal, Naibedya Chattopadhyay, Phytochemistry of Plants of Genus Cassia, 2021
Brijesh Kumar, Vikas Bajpai, Vikaskumar Gond, Subhashis Pal, Naibedya Chattopadhyay
Traditionally, the leaves of Cassia species are popular as potherb. It is used as a natural pesticide in the organic farms of India. It has been reported that Cassia species contain chrysophanic acid-9-anthrone which is an important fungicide. The intake of these seeds can cure skin diseases like ringworm, itch and psoriasis. These herbal seeds can also remove intense heat from the liver and improve the acuity of sight and loosen the bowels to relieve constipation. The leaves contain anthraquinones and are employed in weak decoction for treating childhood teething, fever and constipation. The paste of the ground, dried root is used in Ayurveda to treat ringworm and snakebite (Shivjeet et al., 2013).
Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
Toxicity — Powder (or sawdust) is to be avoided as it inflames the mucous membranes. Dangerous for the eyes.33 Internally, 200 mg can produce diarrhea, nausea, and nephritis.33 Goa powder is irritant to the respiratory tract.6 In industrial accidents, chrysophanic acid has produced conjunctivitis and keratitis.6
Anti-hyperglycemic and genotoxic studies of 1-O-methyl chrysophanol, a new anthraquinone isolated from Amycolatopsis thermoflava strain SFMA-103
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2021
Cheemalamarri Chandrasekhar, Hemshikha Rajpurohit, Kalpana Javaji, Madhusudana Kuncha, Aravind Setti, A. Zehra Ali, Ashok K. Tiwari, Sunil Misra, C. Ganesh Kumar
The purity of OMC isolated from strain SFMA-103 was confirmed by reverse phase chromatography using Agilent reverse phase column C18 column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 μm) interfaced to an Agilent 1200 HPLC system (Agilent Technologies, CA). The mobile phase used was HPLC grade solvents of methanol-H2O (60:40; v/v). OMC was detected using diode array detector (DAD) at a wavelength of 254 nm with flow rate of 1 mL/min at room temperature (Tan et al.2011). Chrysophanic acid (CAS No. 481–74-3, TCI Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. India) was used as a standard.