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.
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.