As a traditional Chinese medicine, rhubarb is mainly used to treat constipation by clearing heat and fire, cooling blood and detoxifying the toxin, and removing blood stasis and clearing the meridians.
Rhubarb is the dried root and rhizome of Polygonum tinctorium and Rhubarbum palmatum, which has the effects of diarrhea (treating constipation by passing stools), clearing heat and fire, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, expelling blood stasis and clearing the meridians (removing blood stasis and clearing the meridians), and inducing diuresis to relieve yellowish discoloration (removing dampness and eliminating yellow jaundice).
It can be used in the treatment of solid heat constipation, blood-heat epistaxis (due to blood-heat caused by vomiting blood, nosebleed), eye and throat swelling, carbuncle (by the qi and blood by the evil and poisonous and congestion and blockage, resulting in local swelling symptoms) boils (a kind of acute suppurative disease), stasis of blood and menstrual occlusion, bruises and jaundice and urine and redness and other conditions.
It should be noted that rhubarb used for diarrhea should not be decocted for a long time, and its blood circulation to dispel blood stasis is strong, pregnant women and women menstruation, breastfeeding should also be used with caution, and this product is bitter and cold, easy to injure the stomach, so the spleen and stomach weakness should be used with caution, the specific use of the physician should be guided by the identification of the specifics of the disease.