Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Rheum rhaponticum

Common Name
Maruba-Daio, Rhubarb, T'U Ta Huang

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Amenorrhea Elsewhere *
Antilactogogue India *
Aperient Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Cancer Europe Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Dysmenorrhea India *
Endometritis India *
Fatality Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Fever China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Poison US Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Wart Australia Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.