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
Spermicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Styptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	3	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Termitifuge	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Hamada, S. I., Kataoka, T., Woo, J. T., Yamada, A., Yoshida, T., Nishimura, T., Otake, N., Nagai, K. 1997. Immunosuppressive Effects by Gallic Acid and Chebulagic Acid on CTL-Mediated Cytotoxicity. Biol Pharm Bull, 20: 1017-1019.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Muller, S. O., Eckert, I., Lutz, W. K., Stopper, H. 1996. Genotoxicity of the Laxative Drug Components Emodin, Aloe-emodin and Danthron in Mammalian Cells: Topoisomerase II Mediated? Mutat Res, 371: 165-173.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.