A powerful digestive powder to be handled with care

Due to its anthraquinone derivative content, this powder is traditionally incorporated into purgative, digestive, or hepatic complexes. However, it must be used with caution and only in controlled formulations.

Description

Fine powder, reddish-brown to golden brown in color, with a slightly earthy and bitter odor. Cold-ground dried roots to preserve the active ingredients.

Nomenclature

• Common name: Medicinal rhubarb
• Latin name: Rheum officinale / Rheum palmatum
• Family: Polygonaceae
• Part used: Root
• Form: Powder
• Origin: China, Tibet, Central Asia
• English name: Medicinal rhubarb powder
• German name: Medizinalrhabarberpulver
• Name in Spanish: Polvo de ruibarbo medicinal
• Name in Italian: Polvere di rabarbaro medicinale
• Name in Arabic: مسحوق راوند طبي

Main virtues

Laxative, cholagogue, mild purgative, transit regulator, digestive.

Main constituents

Anthraquinones (rhein, emodin), catechin tannins, resins, starch, organic acids.

Professional use and dosage

• Capsules: 250 to 400 mg per dose – 1 to 2 times/day depending on sensitivity, as a short course.
• Loose powder: 0.5 to 1 g per day in a drink or food support.
• Frequent associations: boldo, dandelion, fumitory, licorice (digestive or hepatodigestive formulas).

Precautions, side effects and contraindications

• Do not use if pregnant, breastfeeding, intestinal obstruction, chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
• Possible effects: diarrhea, colic, loss of potassium in case of overdose.
• Reserved for occasional use (max. 8 to 10 days) except on medical advice.

History and traditional use

Imported from Asia via the Silk Road, medicinal rhubarb is one of the oldest known laxative remedies. It was already used in traditional Chinese medicine and by Greco-Roman physicians. Today, it remains a go-to remedy for occasional constipation of dietary or nervous origin.

Miscellaneous information

• Packaging: opaque jar or professional airtight kraft bag.
• Storage: away from humidity, light and heat.
• Shelf life: 24 months.
• TARIC customs code: 1211.90.86.00

Sources and references

• Monographs of European and Asian pharmacopoeia
• Internal References Apophycaire
• Ethnobotanical and scientific data on natural laxatives

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