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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Rheum palmatum (Polygonaceae)

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
PAEONOL 20 Rhizome 80.0 *
PALMIDIN-A 0 Root *
PALMIDIN-B 0 Root *
PALMIDIN-C 0 Root *
PALMIDIN-D 0 Root *
PENTADECANAL 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
PENTADECANE 0 Rhizome 0.5 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Rhizome 12.5 *
PHENOL 26 Rhizome 0.5 *
PHENYLBUTANONE-GLYCOSIDES 0 Rhizome *
PHYSCION 5 Rhizome *
PHYSCION 5 Root 1660.0 -1.00 *
PHYSCION 5 Tissue Culture *
PHYSCION-8-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHYSCION-8-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHYSCION-8-O-BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Root *
PHYSCION-DIANTHRONE 0 Root *
PHYSCION-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Root *
PHYSCION-DIGLYCOSIDE 0 Root *
PHYSCION-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Root *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antisprout 1 *
Antistaphylococcic 5 *
Antistomatitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antistreptococcic 2 *
Antistress 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antistroke 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antisyndrome-X 3 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitartar 1 *
Antithrombogenic 1 *
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 1 *
Antitriglyceride 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitumor 7 *
Antitumor (Breast) 1 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antitumor-Promoter 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter? 1 *
Antitussive 1 *
Antiulcer 6 Yamahara, J., et al. Stomachic principles in ginger. II. Pungent and anti-ulcer effects of low polar constituents isolated from ginger, the dried rhizoma of... Yakugaku Zasshi 112: 645-655 (1992).