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Phred wrote:

There don't seem to be similar commercial products from the _Cassia_
that I noticed, though the page I previously mentioned
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Cassia_fistula.html
lists a lot of applications under "Folk Medicine".

There's also senna:

My first thought on seeing 'cascara' was "Castoria", the laxative we loved
as kids because it tasted like rootbeer. Googling "Castoria" revealed that
it was in fact senna rather than cassia that was the active ingredient.
Haven't seen it in years so I was surprised to see that Fletcher's Castoria
is still on the market.

Gabby