Senna Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Senna (Senna alexandrina) is Alexandrian or Tinnevelly senna, a small shrub of the legume family, Fabaceae, native to the dry regions of Egypt, Sudan, Arabia and India and cultivated commercially in southern India. It grows 0.5 to 2 meters tall with pinnate leaves of four to eight pairs of narrow, grey-green, pointed leaflets, and upright racemes of yellow flowers followed by flat, broad, slightly curved pods about 5 cm long that turn brown when ripe and hold six to ten seeds. We extract the dried leaf and pods separately.