If senna is boiled with cocoa-nut water and taken internally, it will cure diabetes and gravel, by the will of God ever to be praised and Most High.
If senna be taken with pomegranates, the body becomes strong, and though the patient may be old, nevertheless there is an addition of strength, and the organs of the chest are cleansed, and the appetites are stimulated.
If senna be taken with dates, everything offensive is removed from the mouth, and the body is made healthy, and a good appetite is established.
If senna be drunk with vinegar, it cures fever accompanied by shivering and trembling of the bones, and expels all mischief from the stomach, and cleanses the organs of the chest.
If senna leaves be taken with orange juice, all internal heat is removed, and a man who was before quite thin will speedily grow fat.
Take somesenna leaves with their stalks and bark, pound the whole up fine, and then weigh out a quantity as heavy as three Java duits.
If senna is drunk with dew, the eyes become bright and clear.
If senna is taken in water in which pomegranate peel has been boiled, it cures dysentery.
Mix the senna leaves with fresh butter to which no salt has yet been added.
If senna be taken with grapes, it gives light to the eyes which were dim.
If senna be taken with goat's milk, it will cause an accession of strength, though complete weakness existed just before.
Thus the properties of the senna of Mecca are concluded under fifteen headings.
Mix the senna leaves with clarified butter and moist sugar.
Fluidextract of senna (25%) and oil of coriander in syrup.
Venesection to six or eight ounces, ten grains of calomel, and an infusion of senna with salts and oil, every three hours, till stools are procured.
If a stone sticks in the ureter with incessant vomiting, ten grains of calomel must be given in small pills as above; and some hours afterwards infusion of senna and salts and oil, if it can be made to stay on the stomach.
My father believed in blue pill, and also believed that a cupful of senna tea after it removed any noxious effects the calomel might be supposed to leave.
On escaping from infancy with its concomitants the bottle and spoon, I fell under a greater horror still, blue pill and senna tea.
What a cramping, pain-giving abomination thatsenna tea was!
Senna prunes are prepared as follows: Place an ounce of dried senna leaves in a jar and pour a quart of boiling water on them.
Senna prunes, which were described in Chapter V, fill the purpose very well.
Senna Senna is a purgative, but is apt to gripe when given alone; therefore it is combined with some aromatic, such as cloves or ginger, and the infusion should be made with cold instead of hot water.
Take of senna leaves six drachms, bruised ginger half a drachm, sliced liquorice root four drachms, Epsom salts two and a half ounces, boiling water half an imperial pint.
Infuse an ounce of senna leaves in a pint of boiling water, pouring the water on the leaves in a covered mug or jug, or even an old earthenware teapot.
Rub the senna with the coriander, and separate, by sifting, five ounces of the mixture.
The domestic remedy, senna tea with prunes which render it palatable, confection of senna, syrup of senna, and the sweet essence of senna are generally very readily taken by children, but all have the disadvantage of being liable to gripe.
The well-known purgative properties of senna leaves were held in great repute by the old apothecaries.
The report says:-- "The only thing of a medicinal nature that we could find in this preparation appeared to be a small amount of senna combined with a bitters of some kind.
A certain liver, and kidney, and constipation cure, sold in the form of herbs, is said by New Idea to be chiefly couch grass, and senna leaves.
And I can putSenna on now and then for an over or two.
All right, boys, Senna Tea wants me to boil him up again.
I am going to give you a lesson that will teach you to behave yourself in future, and you too, Senna Tea.
I was going to say lots of us laugh at you, but lots of us wish you and Senna Tea had given those two bullies an awful licking.
There are also many other native kraals situated on all the branches of this river down to the Zambese, and along its banks, Senna being the most important, where there are several hills that skirt it.
This region joins up to the Mashona country, the Sabia being the boundary, Senna on the east, and Sofala on the south.
The principal towns in the Portuguese possessions on the east coast are Lorenzo Marques, Inhambane, Sofala, and the two small river towns up the Zambese, Senna and Tette.
On the east of Batoka is the Senna region, which reaches to the Zambese and to its mouth, and along the eastern coast, down to where the Sofala joins it.
My daughter, Dom Isidore has been urging our stay at Senna for some days longer, but I am forced to say nay.
Leaving Senna late, the party dropped lazily down the broad river.
Reaching Senna late last night, I heard of the affair, knew it must be you, and determined to send poor Mason on to sign articles, and guided by Masheesh to go to your help.
The lights twinkled and then went out in the fort; the noise in the wretched houses of Senna gradually ceasing.
We have but to follow the stream, and we shall be within the walls of Senna in three hours.
We shall be certain of a good reception from the Portuguese at Tete or Senna on the Zambesi, and are sure to find some coasting vessel at Quillimane, bound for Table Bay.
We can reach Senna by early morning, and I am half dead with hunger.
In Egypt the senna harvest takes place twice annually, in April and September; the stalks are cut off with the leaves, dried before the sun, and then packed with date leaves.
This species is said by some to constitute the bulk of the senna consumed for medical purposes in Europe.
Senna is collected in various parts of Africa by the Arabs, who make two crops annually; one, the most productive, after the rains in August and September, the other about the middle of March.
At least eight varieties of senna leaf are known in commerce in Europe--1.
The senna leaves imported from India are not generally so clean and free from rubbish as those from Alexandria.
This is one of our most grateful aromatics, and is sometimes employed to modify the action of senna and rhubarb.
Assist the action of physic, by giving an injection of senna and catnip tea, or if the stomach is very sour, take internally some mild alkali, such as common saleratus.
Make an infusion of Sage and Senna leaves, and drink freely until it acts as a cathartic.
If these are not at hand, a tea of sage and senna may be drunk until it produces a purgative effect, or a dose of Rochelle salts taken.
The Governor was troubled at my illness, and sent to ask whether he should send me some senna tea.
The English Vice-Consul of the latter city has sent quantities of goods to this mart, but these are exchanged only forsenna and ivory.
A camel-load of sennanow sells for seventeen mahboubs.
We wish to see the English come here to buy senna and elephants' teeth.
There is a wady near Ghat covered with senna, during rain, but the greater portion ofsenna is brought from Aheer.
The senna ghafalah will detain us three days more.
A little senna is found casually in the gardens of Ghadames; but the country of Senna, in The Sahara, is Aheer, where it is cultivated by the Touaricks.
A great part of the slaves, elephants' teeth, and senna which daily arrive here, are not for sale in Ghat, but are sent direct from Soudan to Tripoli by the correspondents of the Ghadamsee merchants at Kanou.
At any rate, large bundles of senna are left out in the suburbs, night after night, and in the open fields amongst the sand, and no one touches a leaf of it.
Being so aromatic and comfortably stimulating, the fruit is commended for aiding the digestion of savoury pastry, and to correct the griping tendencies of such medicines as senna and rhubarb.
Officinally apothecaries mix the pulp with senna as an aperient confection.
They are used by our druggists as an ingredient in confection of sennafor a gentle laxative effect.
If he wishes to go up the river to the Portuguese towns of Senna or Tette, a pass must be purchased from the Governor.
A native of Europe, the Bladder Senna (page 20) is one of the few plants that thrive in dry sandy soils.
The senna steamer made for neither Ciudadella nor Port Mahon.
The senna steamer hove-to in the twilight some three miles off-shore, and a boat put into the tiny sheltered bay of Cavalleria just two hours after nightfall.
A freight steamer consigned to somesenna merchants would be sailing for Tripoli at noon on the morrow.
Sometimes he ate dry senna and raisins mixed on a plate, and we teased away the raisins, and he had to chew the senna "bare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; laxative; oak; tree
