Guest guest Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 >>>If you look at ExLax, you will find that Senna is the ingredient in ExLax.<<< Are you saying Senna is the only ingredient in Exlax, Jay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 <<Are you saying Senna is the only ingredient in Exlax, Jay?>> Senna and senna extracts - plus chocolate, sugar, etc. From: http://www.herbalgram.org/iherb/expandedcommissione/he087.asp<http://www.herbalg\ ram.org/iherb/expandedcommissione/he087.asp> In the United States, senna leaf, fruit, and extract are used in OTC laxatives (e.g., Correctol®, ExLax®, Senokot®, Smooth Move®). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 Jay wrote>>>If you look at ExLax, you will find that Senna is the ingredient in ExLax. So those who slam ExLax are really slamming what is one of the most highly recommended laxatives by alternative medicine.<<< Mama replied<<Are you saying Senna is the only ingredient in Exlax, Jay?>> Jay wrote>>>Senna and senna extracts - plus chocolate, sugar, etc.<<< Senna is not the problem with Exlax Jay, it is the other ingredients in it that are. The same as the difference between White Willow and aspirin. Yes aspirin is modelled on, and contains, White willow but that does not mean Aspirin is a better choice in pain relief than White Willow. Aspirin was produced by person/s who wanted to make some money by producing a product they could patent. If said person/s had been interested in helping people they would have promoted White Willow but of course that wouldn't have made them any money. I believe it's the same with Senna. Blessings Mama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 <<Senna is not the problem with Exlax Jay, it is the other ingredients in it that are. The same as the difference between White Willow and aspirin. Yes aspirin is modelled on, and contains, White willow but that does not mean Aspirin is a better choice in pain relief than White Willow. Aspirin was produced by person/s who wanted to make some money by producing a product they could patent. If said person/s had been interested in helping people they would have promoted White Willow but of course that wouldn't have made them any money. I believe it's the same with Senna. Blessings Mama.>> All the active ingredients in ExLax are directly from Senna in the form of Sennosides. Aspirin (created by Bayer who lost the registered trade mark by not protecting it) is made from the same ingredients found in willow bark, but is not produced from willow bark. ExLax (and many other over the counter laxatives) is produced from Senna. From the ExLax Box from drugstore.com: " Ingredients: Active Ingredients: (in each piece): Sennosides, USP (15 mg - Stimulant laxative) Inactive Ingredients: Cocoa, Confectioner's Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Lecithin, Nonfat Dry Milk, Vanillin " From: http://www.indo-world.com/calcium_sennosides/calcium_sennosides.htm<http://www.i\ ndo-world.com/calcium_sennosides/calcium_sennosides.htm> " Calcium Sennosides Herb (Senna Extract) is one of the best known herbal medicines. Leaves of the Senna plant are used for extraction of Calcium Sennoside. It is very effective laxative. It is slightly bitter. Senna has always being specially used for constipation. " Senna and ExLax are the same, except, ExLax adds cocoa, sugar, hydrogenated oil, etc..... Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 >>>All the active ingredients in ExLax are directly from Senna in the form of Sennosides. Aspirin is made from the same ingredients found in willow bark, but is not produced from willow bark.<<< Yes, ExLax is made from calcium sennosides extracted from the leaves of the Senna plant (See the quote from the website you posted " Calcium Sennosides Herb (Senna Extract) is one of the best known herbal medicines. Leaves of the Senna plant are used for extraction of Calcium Sennoside. " ). Just as I understand Aspirin contains Willow Bark extract. Are you saying that you have evidence that a synthetic form of the ingredients in Willow Bark is used in producing Aspirin? Not that it matters to me one way or the other as I use Willow Bark if necessary but it would be interesting to know. >>>From the ExLax Box from drugstore.com: " Ingredients: Active Ingredients: (in each piece): Sennosides, USP (15 mg - Stimulant laxative) Inactive Ingredients: Cocoa, Confectioner's Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Lecithin, Nonfat Dry Milk, Vanillin " <<< Therefore it is incorrect to describe senna as 'the same' as Exlax when in actual fact extract of senna is only one of the ingredients in ExLax. I believe it is the undesirable ingredients in ExLax which many find the problem i.e. Cocoa, Confectioner's Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil (things I wouldn't feed any living creature) NOT the senna. Blessings Mama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 <<Therefore it is incorrect to describe senna as 'the same' as Exlax when in actual fact extract of senna is only one of the ingredients in ExLax.>> That's like saying that the senna tea you drink doesn't really have senna in it, it only has an extract. If you're trying to find a way to say that ExLax (and many other over the counter stuff) isn't the same as senna, that's true because they've added chocolate, sugar, and other stuff but all of it still has senna in it, directly extracted from senna - just like senna tea. You can find aspirin made from white willow bark, but it will say so and will cost you more than standard aspirin. If you go to the Bayer aspirin site you will find that they make their aspirin from acetylsalicylic acid - which they don't get from willow bark. Jay from http://www.bayeraspirin.com/questions/hundred_aspirin.htm<http://www.bayeraspiri\ n.com/questions/hundred_aspirin.htm> 100 Years of Aspirin Who discovered aspirin? The effects of aspirin-like substances have been known since the ancient Romans recorded the use of the willow bark as a fever fighter. The leaves and bark of the willow tree contain a substance called salicin, a naturally occurring compound similar to acetylsalicylic acid, the chemical name for aspirin. In 1897, a German chemist with Friedrich Bayer and Company was searching for a treatment for his father's arthritic pain and began to research acetylsalicylic acid, which worked well. As a result, he developed a product introduced as Aspirin. By 1899, The Bayer Company was providing aspirin to physicians to give to their patients. 1832 A German chemist experiments with salicin and creates salicylic acid (SA). 1897 Chemist, Felix Hoffmann, at Bayer® in Germany, chemically synthesizes a stable form of ASA powder that relieves his father's rheumatism. The compound later becomes the active ingredient in aspirin named - " a " from acetyl, " spir " from the spirea plant (which yields salicin) and " in, " a common suffix for medications. 1899 Bayer distributes aspirin powder to physicians to give to their patients. Aspirin is soon the number one drug worldwide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 >>>If you're trying to find a way to say that ExLax (and many other over the counter stuff) isn't the same as senna, that's true because they've added chocolate, sugar, and other stuff but all of it still has senna in it, directly extracted from senna - just like senna tea.<<< Jay, what I have said is that your comment " So those who slam ExLax are really slamming what is one of the most highly recommended laxatives by alternative medicine. " is incorrect. ExLax contains extract of senna, and I have never disputed that, but Senna and ExLax are not the same thing. People are 'slam' ing ExLax because, apart from the senna, it contains suspect ingredients. The other ingredients not only possibly compromise the effectiveness of the senna but also do independant harm/damage. The fact that ExLax has Senna in it is not the issue. It is, and always has been, the other ingredients in ExLax that are the problem. Blessings Mama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2004 Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 <<It is, and always has been, the other ingredients in ExLax that are the problem.>> What I sent in my email was the exact ExLax ingredients from the label, copied from drugstore.com. There are no other 'active' ingredients in ExLax other than Senna. I simply don't know how to get that across. Please list the " other " ingredients that are causing you a problem. The " other " ingredients (inactive) are cocoa (chocolate), hydrogenated oil (ugh) and sugar. The only laxative in it (and other over-the counter laxatives) is Senna. I have been on several alternative health lists where ExLax is slammed as habit forming (so is Senna), damaging to the colon (true - but so is Senna), and yet what's the difference between drinking Senna tea and eating a small square of a Hershey bar? There is nothing else in Senna to make you poop than Senna and everything that people use to knock ExLax can be used to also knock the " herb " Senna. Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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