Rhubarb is a traditional Chinese medicine that has the effects of diarrhea and attacking stagnation (treating constipation by passing stools), clearing heat and fire, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin, expelling blood stasis and opening the menstruation, and does not have the effect of lowering uric acid.
Rhubarb, also known as Shogun, Huangliang, etc., is bitter in flavor and cold in nature; it belongs to the spleen, stomach, large intestine, liver and pericardium meridians. It is mainly used in the treatment of stagnant constipation, epistaxis (vomiting blood, nosebleed due to blood heat), eye redness and throat swelling, heat-poisoned sores, burns, blood stasis, damp-heat dysentery (dysentery due to damp-heat), jaundice, and gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dribbling and astringent pain), etc. It is not suitable for prolonged decoction.
Rhubarb should not be decocted for a long time when used for diarrhea.
If you need to take rhubarb, it is recommended to consult a doctor for scientific treatment under the guidance of a doctor.