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

Ethnobotanical Plant Rheum tanguticum

Common Name
Da 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 China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Aperient Japan* ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Cancer(Stomach) China Yey, S.D.J. 1973. Anticancer Chinese Herbal Medicines. Maerican Journal of Chinese Medicine 1(2): 271-274.
Constipation China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diarrhea China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Fever China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Hemorrhage China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Hepatitis China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Intestine China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Jaundice China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Laxative China Li, C.P. 1974. Chinese Herbal Medicine. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-732.
Stomach China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Stomachic Japan* ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.