1, rhubarb is a very common Chinese herbal medicine. The efficacy and function of rhubarb are outstanding. Rhubarb has strong anti-infection, anti-aging and anti-oxidation, immunomodulation, anti-inflammation, antipyretic, anti-pathogenic microorganisms, reducing blood lipid, hemostasis, anti-gastric and duodenal ulcer, promoting pancreatic juice secretion, inhibiting pancreatic enzyme activity, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver and stopping diarrhea.

2. The main function of rhubarb is to purge heat toxin, break blood stasis and disperse stagnation, promote gallbladder function and relieve jaundice, and it has good curative effect on various diseases such as conjunctival congestion pain, damp-heat jaundice, dyspepsia, diarrhea, excess heat constipation, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood stasis and amenorrhea. It is advisable to stir-fry charcoal to stop bleeding clinically. However, it has a strong ability to endure bitter cold, so it should be used with caution by parturient, postpartum and weak.

3. From the palace medical village, doctors' works to folk prescriptions, from oral compatibility to external processing, rhubarb has been praised by doctors and patients for its effects of purging heat, relaxing bowels, relieving pain and removing blood stasis. The dosage forms are decoction, powder, pill, lotion, ointment, etc. Besides, rhubarb tea and rice wine are also health care products.

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Taboos for eating rhubarb

1, the average person1~ 5g each time is more appropriate; People with spleen and stomach weakness and deficiency-cold should avoid taking it; You can't overdo it for a long time, not to mention.

2. Use this product to relieve constipation, and it should be taken after decocting, or soak the juice with boiling water, otherwise the efficacy will be weakened.

3. After taking rhubarb, its pigment will be excreted in urine or sweat glands, so urine and sweat can appear yellow. In addition, after breast-feeding women take it, the baby sucks milk, which may cause diarrhea, and breast-feeding women should not take it. Because this product has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, women should also use it with caution before pregnancy, after pregnancy and during menstruation.

4. Besides gastrointestinal reaction of rhubarb, it has been reported that two elderly patients suffered from severe iron deficiency anemia after taking rhubarb soda tablets for two years (15-2 1 tablet a day), and their hemoglobin dropped to 5-5.6g, which returned to normal after reducing the dosage and supplementing vitamin C such as iron.

5. By studying the transit time and excretion time of charcoal powder in the intestine, and measuring the intestinal water content, it is proved that rhubarb acts on the large intestine and is a cathartic agent, while iron is mainly absorbed in the large intestine. It is believed that the reason of iron deficiency may be that the catharsis of rhubarb interferes with the absorption of iron.

6. Rhubarb tannic acid may combine with iron to form insoluble complex, which hinders absorption; Soda neutralizes gastric acid; It interferes with the chelation of iron with vitamin C and hinders the absorption of iron. It is also reported that 1 patient with asthma developed itching, erythema and asthma after taking 4 tablets of rhubarb soda, which was confirmed by patch test as rhubarb allergy.

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