Medical rhubarbs are members of the buckwheat family and originate from Chin. Also called Turkey rhubarb.
Rhubarbs used for a variety of conditions including cancer, immunosuppression, constipation, diarrhea, gastrointestinal ulcers and chronic renal failure. Their roots have been used as laxative for thousands of years.
A tea made from the rhubarb root is a useful laxative because of the presence of anthroquinone glycosides. The tea is a bitter stomach tonic, mild purgative and astringent it has a cleansing action on the entire digestive tract and speeds elimination.
It purges the body of bile, parasites and stagnating food in the gut by stimulating the gall duct to expel toxic waste matter.
The root may color the urine red or yellow.
The root extract stimulates intestinal hemorrhoids. It also has been shown to help alleviate disorders of the spleen and colon and help heal bleeding in the digestive tract.
Turkey rhubarb (Rheum palmatum and R. officinale)
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