Senna

Cassia Acutifolia

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full of wind . Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated, muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonæmia , prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender.

Stool

Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before. Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation ( Merc ). Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder. Constipation , with colic and flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness .

Urine

Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia, oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.

Relationship

Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa .

Antidotes: Nux; Cham .

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Senna across the other classic books

Senna appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Cassia obovata, Colladon; (C. Senna, Linn.); also C. acutifolia, Delile; C. Lanceolata, Lam. Senna, the Arabian name; Senna Alexandrina. Natural order , Leguminosæ. Preparation , Triturations of the leaves. (The active principle, Cathartic acid and its salts, is not soluble in Alcohol). Authorities. Repeated sneezing…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“The leaflets of several species of Cassia: C. obovata, Alexandrian Senna, is the principal. N. O. Leguminosæ. Trituration or tincture of the dried leaves. Colic; flatulent, of infants / Exhaustion / Nitrogenous waste / Sleeplessness / Sneezing, with heat Used as a laxative in ordinary practice, Senna has proved an…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence (particularly in young children). Diarrhœic stools, followed by tenesmus and burning at the anus.”

Senna in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Senna in 12 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in ABDOMEN (4), HEAD (4), MIND (2), BACK (1), FACE (1).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping,griping
MIND - SHRIEKING - children,in
ABDOMEN - PAIN - aching,dull Pain
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - raising - the head
FACE - ERUPTIONS - vesicles - mouth - corners
HEAD - PAIN, - extending to - base of brain
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - downward
HEAD - HEAVINESS - stooping,on
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping,griping - stool - during
MIND - RESTLESSNESS,nervousness - bed, - tossing about in
HEAD - PAIN, - stooping, - from
ABDOMEN - FLATULENCE

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