Liber Herbarum Minor (English)
The incomplete reference-guide to Herbal medicine

Rev.12-05-2020

False rhubarb

Plant

Family

knotweed family, smartweed family, buckwheat family (Polygonaceae)

English

False rhubarb, Common rhubarb, Garden rhubarb, Pieplant, Rhapontic, Rhapontic rhubarb, Rhubarb

Latin

Rheum rhaponticum L., Rheum raponticum, Rheum xx hybridum Murray, Rheum rhaponticum

Plantparts

foliage, Roots, Unspecified

Diseases & Uses

Ungrouped Diseases & Uses

Abdominal trouble, Adstringent, Anti-asthmatic, Antihaemorrhagic, Anti-hemorrhagic, aperient, Asthma, Astrigent, Astringent, Belch, biliary disorders, Bilious affection, Biliousness, bleeding, Carminative, Carminativum, catharic, Cathartic, Clears gas, complaints of the stomach, constipating, Disdorders of the bile, disease of the gall, disease of the stomach, Fart, flatulence, flatulency, Flatus, Gall complaints, Gas, Gastropathy, good for the stomach, haemorrhage, Haemorrhagic conditions, Haemorrhaging, hemorrhage, Hemorrhaging, impetigo, indigestion, intestinal gas, Kidney pain, Laxative, Liver pain, movements of the bowel, Nephralgia, purgative, Stomach aliment, stomach atony, stomach complaints, stomach debility, Stomach disease, stomach disorders, Stomachic, stomach lassitude, stomach problems, stomach tonic, stomach trouble, weak stomach, wind

Warnings

Poisonous to goats, Poisonous to horses, Poisonous to humans, Poisonous to pigs

TCM - Traditional Chinese medicine

TCM MERIDIAN: NA, Traditional Chinese medicine, Used in traditional Chinese medicin

Ingredients

 Aloe emodin, Anthranol, anthraquinone, calcium salt, Catechin, Chrysophanic acid, enzyme, Natural rubber, Oxalate, rhein, Rheum emodin, starch, sugar, Tannic acid

Source: LiberHerbarum/Pn0648

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