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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Rheum palmatum (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Rhubarb
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3,5,4'-TRIHYDROXYSTILBENE-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
3-METHYL-DIBENZOTHIOPHENE 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
4'-O-GALLOYL-SUCROSE 0 Rhizome 28.1 *
4'-O-METHYL-PICEID 0 Root 248.0 *
4-(P-HYDROXYPHENYL)-2-BUTANONE-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
4-METHYL-DIBENZOTHIOPHENE 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
5-METHYL-2-FURFURAL 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
6-O-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE 0 Rhizome 46.9 *
6-O-GALLOYL-SUCROSE 0 Rhizome 25.0 125.0 *
8-GLUCOSYL-RHEIN-ANTHRONE 0 Root *
ALIZARIN 11 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALOE-EMODIN 24 Rhizome *
ALOE-EMODIN 24 Root 2030.0 *
ALOE-EMODIN 24 Tissue Culture *
ALOE-EMODIN-8-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ALOE-EMODIN-8-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Rhizome *
ALOE-EMODIN-DIANTHRONE 0 Root *
ALOE-EMODIN-DIANTHRONE-GLYCOSIDE 0 Root *
ALOE-EMODIN-MONOGLYCOSIDE 0 Root *
ALPHA-CADINENE 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Genotoxic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gonadotropic 1 *
Gram(+)icide 1 *
Gram(-)icide 1 *
Hemolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Hemostat 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatoprotective 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatoregenerative 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 3 Martindale's 29th
Herbicide 2 *
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocalcemic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Hypocholesterolemic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.