BACKGROUND Cinnamomum cassia bark is a popular culinary spice used for flavoring and in traditional medicine. C. cassia extract (CE) induces apoptosis in many cell lines. In the present study, particular differences in the mechanism of the anti-proliferative property of C. cassia on two breast cancer cell lines, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231, were elucidated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The hexane ...

Cassia fistula Linnis a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of Southeast Asia. The aim of this study is to overview its therapeutic effects than its nutritive and industrial effects. This review article was carried out by searching studies in PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, and IranMedex databases up to 2016.totally, of 100 found artic...

The aqueous extract of the pods of Cassia fistula Linn (Leguminosae Caesalpinoideae), cultivated in Ile-Ife, Nigeria were investigated for pharmacological and toxicological properties. The in-vitro effect of Cassia fistula infusion on isolated guinea-pig ileum was examined. The acute and sub-chronic toxicity of the infusion of C. fistula and Cassia acutifolia Del. Pod(Senokot tablet) as the ref...

There were substantiated the expediency of the using for the determination of identity of Cassia acutifolia Del. leaves of spectrophotometry and TLC. As the results of the chemical study of Cassia acutifolia leaves there were isolated the predominant components of this plant 1,7-dihydroxy-3carboxyanhraquinone, 8-O-β-D-glucopyranoside of torachrysone, kaempferol-3-O-gentiobioside and on this bas...

Medicinal plants possess unlimited and untapped wealth of chemical compounds with high drug potential which make these plants useful as sources of biomedicines. Cassia species have been of keen interest in phytochemical due to their excellent medicinal values. All Cassia species are an important rich source of secondary metabolites, notably anthraquinone derivatives and has been used in Chinese...

Antioxidant potential of various extracts of Cassia fistula was determined by the DPPH, FRAP, Fe(3+) reducing power, and hydrogen peroxide scavenging assay. Methanolic extracts of Cassia fistula showed the highest amount of phenolic and flavonoid content and reducing capacity, whereas hexane extracts exhibited the lowest level of reducing capacity. The order of antioxidant activity in Cassia fi...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the synergistic antifungal action of crude DMSO (Di methyl sulphoxide) & Petroleum ether leaves extract of Cassia fistula in conjunction with fluconazole against candidial species isolated from Candidasis patients. Correlation was observed between the leaves & fluconazole, therefore it was also found that the antifungal action of Cassia fistula leaves extrac...

Fungal activity of the essential oil extracted from Cassia tora (Fabaceae) was studied against dermatophytic fungi like Microsporum gypseum. Study of dermatophytes in soil samples collected from Jaipur, was carried out but only 88% samples contained dermatophytic fungi. In screening of the essential oil of Cassia tora the diameter of inhibition zone was found to be 19 mm for Microsporum gypseum...

The leaves of 10 Cassia species (Leguminosae), cultivated in Nigeria, were assayed spectrophotometrically for combined anthraquinone content and also pharmacologically for their laxative properties in male albino rats using official senna leaves (Cassia acutifolia Del.) as the reference standard. Leaves of C. podocarpa Guill, and Perr. and of senna had identical laxative potency. The results of...

A water soluble galactomannan having D-Mannose [4-part] and D-Galactose [2-parts] was isolated from Cassia fistula. In cassia fistula Hydrolysis of methylated seed gum furnished three methylated sugars, 2, 3-di-O-methyl-D-mannose, 2, 3,6-tri-O-methyl-D-mannose and 2, 3,4,6-tetra-Omethy-D-galactose was present in molar ratio 3:2:1. Partial acid catalysed hydrolysis of the seed gum gave five olig...