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Cassia
(redirected from Cinnamomum aromaticum)

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Cassia
legume genus of the Caesalpiniaceae family of plants; contain anthraquinone glycosides which causes diarrhea and myopathy. Includes C. acutiflora (senna), C. arachoides, C. barclayana, C. didymobotrya, C. floribunda, C. obtusiflora (sicklepod), C. roemeriana. Many species in the genus have been reclassified as Senna spp.

Cassia occidentalis
causes degeneration of striated muscle with a consequent myoglobinuria and atrophy of skeletal muscles and cardiomyopathy of sufficient extent to cause death. Called also coffee senna, wild coffee.


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The most common varieties are the Cinnamomum zeylancium or Ceylon cinnamon, and Cinnamomum aromaticum, or Chinese cinnamon.
 
 
 
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