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

Common Names

Chinese Rhubarb

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
D-CATECHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DECANAL	0	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOIC-ACID	3	Rhizome	not available	2.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOL	2	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Rhizome	not available	28.5	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
DIRHEIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOCOSANE	0	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANE	0	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANOIC-ACID	1	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANOL	1	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EICOSANE	0	Rhizome	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Root	not available	690.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-1-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-DIANTHRONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-MONOGLYCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Rhizome	not available	500.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	3	Martindale's 29th
Herbicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.