{"id":545,"date":"2009-08-03T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:32:38","slug":"senna-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/senna-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Senna Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/drugs\/2\/drug-76165\/laxative-senna-oral\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">herbal laxative<\/a> used in a range of &#8220;detox&#8221; and &#8220;cleansing&#8221; products, as well as over-the-counter commercial preparations (such as Ex-Lax).\u00a0 There are several related species of plants used, but Cassia angustifolia\u00a0and Cassia acutifolia are\u00a0the most common.\u00a0\u00a0The active ingredients are\u00a0known as\u00a0sennosides, which induce laxation via\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2FBF01536053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stimulation of propulsive activity<\/a>&#8221; in the colon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An herbal laxative used in a range of &#8220;detox&#8221; and &#8220;cleansing&#8221; products, as well as over-the-counter commercial preparations (such as Ex-Lax).\u00a0 There are several related species of plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[237,238,277,342,416,507,603,865,866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}