Boiling rhubarb in water has the effects of cathartic (treating constipation by passing stools), clearing heat and fire, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, inducing diuresis and removing jaundice (removing dampness and eliminating jaundice), and expelling stasis and clearing the meridians (removing stagnant blood and clearing the meridians).
1. Diarrhea and stagnation: rhubarb can be used to treat constipation caused by solid heat and stagnation.
2. Clearing away heat and diarrhea: It can be used to treat eye redness and swelling pain, mouth and tongue sores, carbuncles, swollen sores and poisons caused by fire-heat blazing (exuberant fire-heat evil).
3. Cooling blood and removing toxins: it can be used in treating hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat.
4. Inducing dampness and relieving yellowness: rhubarb can be used to treat jaundice and gonorrhea caused by dampness-heat internalization (increased frequency of urination, dribbling and astringent pain).
5. Expelling blood stasis and clearing menstruation: Rhubarb can be used to treat menstrual occlusion caused by blood stasis, bruises and post-partum stasis.
The adverse effects of rhubarb have not been clarified, it is forbidden for those who are allergic to rhubarb, and it is also forbidden for those who have weak spleen and stomach, and it is also forbidden for pregnant women, menstruation, and breastfeeding.
The use of rhubarb should be under the guidance of a physician, do not take the drug on your own to avoid adverse consequences.