{"id":565,"date":"2009-08-08T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:32:39","slug":"cascara-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/cascara-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascara Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Cascara Sagrada (&#8220;sacred bark&#8221;). An extract of the bark of Rhamnus purshiana, a species of Buckthorn native to North America. Cascara is used as an herbal laxative: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/cancer-care\/herb\/cascara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the active compounds (&#8220;cascarosides&#8221;) stimulate the lower intestine and promote contractions<\/a>.\u00a0 Although Cascara is used in a number of over-the-counter &#8220;cleansing&#8221; and &#8220;detox&#8221; supplements, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ohrms\/dockets\/98fr\/050902a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the FDA does not consider Cascara safe for use as a laxative<\/a>, due to the lack of data on safety.<\/p>\n<p>Cascara is also a source of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17019678?ordinalpos=4&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emodin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18464074?ordinalpos=26&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aloe-emodin<\/a>, anthraquinones with possible anti-cancer activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Cascara Sagrada (&#8220;sacred bark&#8221;). An extract of the bark of Rhamnus purshiana, a species of Buckthorn native to North America. Cascara is used as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[234,235,277,342,507,603,842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}