Cassia tora Linn. (Family: Leguminosae) is well known plant widely distributed in India and other tropical countries. It is an annual under shrub and grows in wild wasteland. Different parts of the plant (Leaves, seed, and root) are reputed for their medicinal value. It is well recognized traditional medicine as laxative and is useful for treatment of leprosy, ringworm infection, ophthalmic, sk...

Cassia tora L. seeds have previously been reported to reduce blood glucose level in human and animals with diabetes. In the present study, the effects of Cassia tora L. seed butanol fraction (CATO) were studied on postprandial glucose control and insulin secretion from the pancreas of the normal and diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced by an i.p. injection of Streptozotocin (55 mg/kg BW) into th...

Siddha system specifies medicinal plants containing various metal constituents for curing ailments. The plants reported as copper containing were subjected to atomic absorption spectrophotometic analysis. Among these mangifera indica and coccinia indica were found to contain comparatively higher content of copper while manganese was move in coccinia indica aloe perfoliata, cassia auriculata and...

Cassiaindoline is a new dimeric indole alkaloid isolated from Cassia alata L. leaves whose structure was elucidated through spectroscopic analyses. It exhibited analgesic activity at a dosage of 125.0 mg/kg mouse and decreased the number of writhings induced by acetic acid by 49.4%. It also showed a 57.1% anti-inflammatory activity at a dosage of 75 mg/kg mouse.

Title Gelation of cassia gum by freezing and thawing Author(s) Iijima, Mika; Hatakeyama, Tatsuko; Hatakeyama, Hyoe Citation Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 113(3), pp.1073-1078; 2013 Issue Date 2013-09 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/34166 Right © 2013 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.; The final publication is available at link.springer.com NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Academi...

Colorectal foreign bodies are frequently encountered with increased incidence of homosexuality and anal auto-erotism. A thirty-five years old unmarried male presented with an incarcerated rectal foreign body, a phallus shaped dried fruit of Cassia fistula. It was removed transanally after manipulation at laparotomy. The case is presented here due to its rarity.

Cassia auriculata is widely distributed even in poor soil in Sri Lanka, India, Burma and cultivated in tropics. Based on Physical and Chemical methods, the flower of C. auriculata was found to contain a flavonol glycoside 5-O-methylquercetin 7-O-glucoside. The 50% acetone extract of the flower of C. auriculata showed marked anti-inflammatory activity (56%) in carrageenin induced oedema in rats.

Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech Yan Tang a,b,∗, Martin Cooke c,a, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao d a Language and Speech Laboratory, Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria, Spain b Acoustics Research Centre, University of Salford, UK c Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation), Bilbao, Spain d Centre for Speech Technology Research, Universi...