Cascara (Casanthranol)

Dried aged bark of a buckthorn, frangula purshiana (frangula), that contains the anthraquinone emodin and cascarosides. It is used as a laxative (cathartics).


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Rhamnus purshianaSecalonic acidAnthraquinones

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