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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ANTHRAQUINONE-GLYCOSIDES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRONES	0	Leaf	10000.0	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Pt	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	110.0	1833.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Pt	80.0	2581.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	10000.0	194000.0	1.32	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Pt	8000.0	160000.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	0.3	5.0	-1.12	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Pt	0.6	12.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Pt	0.1	36.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Pt	1.0	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Pt	0.0	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Pt	not available	8.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	470.0	14400.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Pt	600.0	18462.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	41000.0	683000.0	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Pt	37000.0	774000.0	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Pt	0.0	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSARONE	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
Insectifuge	3	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic	2	Martindale's 28th
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	6	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	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
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	5	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.