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
OXALIC-ACID	9	Pt	4400.0	13360.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Pt	not available	44.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Pt	0.8	13.3	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Pt	not available	1020.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	160.0	3472.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Pt	100.0	3462.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION-8-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PICEATANNOL-3'-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Pt	2510.0	66400.0	0.88	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2-3,3'-DI-O-GALLATE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B1,3'-O-GALLATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	7000.0	276000.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Pt	4000.0	115000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE	2	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE	0	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNOSIDE	1	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAPONTIC-ACID	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
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	3	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatocarcinogenic	1	Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotoxic	9	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	8	Duke, 1992 *