cascara in English

noun
1
a purgative made from the dried bark of an American buckthorn.
Herbal laxatives such as buckthorn, cascara sagrada , and senna can cause potassium loss.
2
the tree from which cascara is obtained, native to the Pacific Northwest.
A third, cascara , furnishes more than 5 million pounds of dried bark that's processed for laxatives.
noun
    cascara sagrada

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1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genera Rhamnus and Frangula, including several ornamentals, medicinal species such as the cascara Buckthorn, and the invasive species R

2. The Californian Buckthorn (Rhamnus purshianus), known more commonly as Cascara Sagrada, is a nearly-allied shrub growing in the United States, from northern Idaho westward to the Pacific Ocean

3. Anthraquinone derivatives with a laxative effect can be found in a number of plants: Senna leaves or fruits, rhubarb root, alder tree bark, cascara bark and aloe (see Chapter 2.19)

4. Natural pigments that are derivatives of Anthraquinone are found, inter alia, in aloe latex, senna, rhubarb, and cascara buckthorn, fungi, lichens, and some insects.A type II polyketide synthase is responsible for Anthraquinone biosynthesis in the bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens

5. The contact Cathartics such as the diphenylmethane derivatives (phenolphthalein and bisacodyl) and the anthraquinones (senna and cascara) should be used sparingly, although the use of these agents usually cannot be avoided in patients with constipation caused by autonomic failure.