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What does senna mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative.
  2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally.
  3. (medicine) Senna glycoside, a laxative.
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Not only does she use an enema a couple of times a week, but she also drinks laxative tea containing senna all the time.
They are typically southern and eastern butterflies, frequenting hot, rocky slopes where their foodplant, the bladder senna, grows.
These herbal teas typically include senna, aloe, buckthorn and other plant-derived laxatives.
He suggests, as lenitives, senna with pulp of tamarind or oil of sweet almonds.
Originally, Alexandrian senna was obtained principally from Sudan, but it is now cultivated in both Egypt and Sudan.
Even we do not use irrigation and fumigation to our field used for growing senna.

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