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Rhubarb - Artifacts

Description
[da huang] Radix et Rhizoma Rhei. The dried root and rhizome of Palmate Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum l., Tangut Rhubarb, Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. or Medicinal Rhubarb, Rheum officinale Baill. (family Polygonaceae). As an purgative an ddetoxicant and to eliminate evil heat, stagnated food and blood stasis for the treatment of fever with constipation and fullness inthe abdomen, acute jaundice, acute appendicitis, incomplete intertinal obstruction, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, hematemesis and epistaxis associated with excessive heat in the blood; used externally for burns, suppurative skin diseases, carbuncles and furuncles.
Object ID
1997.043.128