The main functions of rhubarb are purging heat and detoxicating, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, promoting gallbladder function and relieving jaundice, and it has a good effect on diseases such as conjunctival congestion and pain, damp-heat jaundice, dyspepsia, diarrhea, constipation due to excess heat, 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.

From palace medical villages, 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.

Rhubarb is the general name of many perennial plants of Polygonaceae and the name of Chinese herbal medicine. In China's literature, "rhubarb" often refers to rhubarb. In China, rhubarb is mainly used for medicine, but in Europe and the Middle East, their rhubarb often refers to several other edible rhubarb varieties.

The stem is red, fragrant, bitter and slightly astringent, and sticky and sandy when chewing. Stems and leaves wither in late autumn or are excavated before germination in the following spring. Remove the fine roots, scrape off the epidermis, cut into petals or segments, and string them with rope to dry or dry them directly. Rhubarb, a traditional Chinese medicine, has the effects of relieving depression, clearing damp-heat, purging fire, cooling blood, removing blood stasis and detoxicating.

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Taboo of rhubarb.

It is more appropriate for adults to take 1 ~ 5g each time. 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.

Use this product to induce diarrhea, and it should be taken after decoction, or soaked in boiling water, otherwise the efficacy will be weakened.

After taking rhubarb, its pigment will be excreted with 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.

Eat rhubarb, it is best to listen to the doctor's advice.

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