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

Common Names

Rhubarb

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	1000.0	65000.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Pt	1000.0	32000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Pt	not available	8.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	7000.0	125000.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Pt	3000.0	135000.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Pt	0.1	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Pt	0.1	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRANGULA-EMODIN-ANTHRONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Pt	not available	53.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID-3-O-(6'-O-GALLOYL)-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID-4-O-(6'-O-GALLOYL)-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOCHRYSARONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOCHRYSARONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOGALLIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	3.0	250.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Pt	1.0	154.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	2	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Anthelmintic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacne	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiAGE	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
Antiaggregant	10	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	4	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Duke, 1992 *