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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN-5-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,2,6-TRI-O-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,6-DI-O-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-O-GALLOYL-GLYCEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-O-CINNAMOYLGLUCOGALLIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,3',5-TRIHYDROXY-4'-METHOXYSTILBEN-3-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,5,4'-TRIHYDROXYSTILBENE-4'-O-(6'-O-GALLOYL)-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,5,4'-TRIHYDROXYSTILBENE-4'-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-(P-HYDROXYPHENYL)BUTANONE-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-HYDROXYMUSIZIN-8-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN-8-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Leaf	1197.0	1238.0	3.07	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Pt	2.0	48.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Pt	1.0	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANHYDRORHAPONTIGENIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	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
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypocholesterolemic	10	Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Hypoglycemic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	9	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	12	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.