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KINGDOM: || PHYLUM: || CLASS: || ORDER: || FAMILY:蓼科 POLYGONACEAE || GENUS:

大黄属 Rheum

Accepted name Rheum L. (Polygonaceae) WCVP · name match (author differs or missing)
Flora treatments

《中国植物志》|| 蓼科 POLYGONACEAE ||酸模族 Trib. RUMICEAE Damm. ||大黄属 Rheum L.

13.大黄属Rheum L.
L. Gen. Pl. ed. 1: 371. 1754; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 3:100. 1880.
多年生高大草本,稀较矮小。根粗壮,内部多为黄色。根状茎顶端常残存有棕褐色膜质托叶鞘;茎直立,中空,具细纵棱,光滑或被糙毛,节明显膨大稀无茎。基生叶成密集或稀疏莲座状,茎生叶互生,稀无茎生叶;托叶鞘发达,大型,稀不显著;叶片多宽大,全缘、皱波或不同深度的分裂;主脉掌状或掌羽状。花小,白绿色或紫红色,通常排列成密或稀疏的圆锥花序或稀为穗状及圆头状,花在枝上簇生,花梗细弱丝状,具关节;花被片6, 排成二轮,雄蕊9, 罕7-8, 花药背着,内向,花盘薄;雌蕊3心皮,1室,1基生的直生胚珠;花柱3, 较短,开展反邮柱头多膨大,头状、近盾状或如意状。瘦果三棱状,棱缘具翅,翅上各具1条明显纵脉,宿存花被不增大或稍增大。种子具丰富胚乳,胚直,偏于一侧,子叶平坦。
属模式种:Rheum rhaponticum L.
本属约60种,分布在亚洲温带及亚热带的高寒山区。我国39种2变种,主要分布于西北、西南及华北地区,东北较少。本属植物性喜高寒怕涝,较多生长于海拔2000-4000米左右山坡石砾地带。
本属具有重要的经济价值,中药大黄是我国特产的重要药材之一,早在两千多年前就有记载,使用历史非常悠久。大黄能泻肠胃积热、下瘀血,外敷消痛肿;其正品来源于掌叶大黄、鸡爪大黄及药用大黄,药用部分为根状茎及根。此外,在商品中有时混有大黄属其他植物的根及根状茎,非为正品,俗称土大黄或山大黄,在不同地区及民间使用,主要有华北大黄、藏边大黄、塔黄、天山大黄等。


Source 中国植物物种信息数据库


Plant use records
Chinese name Vernacular name Plant Ethnic group Use Source
大黄茎 大黄茎 大黄茎 Rheum tanguticummaxim. ex Balf. Medicinal 中华本草
大黄茎 大黄茎 大黄茎 Rheum palmaturn. L. Medicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum palmaturn. L. Uyghur Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum palmaturn. L. Tibetan Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum tanguticummaxim. ex Balf. Tibetan Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum tanguticummaxim. ex Balf. Medicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum tanguticummaxim. ex Balf. Mongolian Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum palmaturn. L. Mongolian Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum tanguticummaxim. ex Balf. Uyghur Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
大黄 大黄 大黄 Rheum palmaturn. L. Medicinal 中华本草



Wild economic plants of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (field survey)
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Research papers
Title Authors Journal Date
Progress on the Study of a Medicinal Plant, Tripterygium Hypoglaucum, and Sustainable Use of Its Wild Resources SUN Hui; JIANG Shunyuan; DENG Werdong; WANG Jian World Sci-Tech R and D 2008
Chinese Herbal Medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis Zhang, Chi; Jiang, Miao; Guo, Hongtao; Zheng, Guang; Yang, Jing; Lu, Aiping RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICINAL PLANTS RESEARCH 2012
Sennoside A, derived from the traditional chinese medicine plant Rheum L., is a new dual HIV-1 inhibitor effective on HIV-1 replication Esposito, Francesca; Carli, Ilaria; Del Vecchio, Claudia; Xu, Lijia; Corona, Angela; Grandi, Nicole; Piano, Dario; Maccioni, Elias; Distinto, Simona; Parolin, Cristina; Tramontano, Enzo PHYTOMEDICINE JUN 5 2016
A mechanistic review on medicinal plants used for rheumatoid arthritis in traditional Persian medicine Farzaei, Mohammad Hosein; Farzaei, Fatemeh; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Abbasabadi, Zahra; Abdolghaffari, Amir Hossein; Mehraban, Bahman JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY OCT 2016
Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects and molecular mechanisms of Kadsura heteroclita stems, an anti-arthritic Chinese Tujia ethnomedicinal herb Yu, Huang-he; Lin, Ye; Zeng, Rong; Li, Xin; Zhang, Ting; Tasneem, Shumaila; Chen, Cong; Qiu, Yi-xing; Li, Bin; Liao, Jin; Wang, Yu-hong; Cai, Xiong; Wang, Wei JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY JUN 28 2019
The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis using Chinese medicinal plants: From pharmacology to potential molecular mechanisms Lu, Shaowa; Wang, Qiushi; Li, Guoyu; Sun, Shuang; Guo, Yuyan; Kuang, Haixue JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY DEC 24 2015
Petroleum ether extractive of the hips of Rosa multiflora ameliorates collagen-induced arthritis in rats Wu, Jianhong; Liu, Xingxian; Chan, Chi-on; Mok, Daniel K. W.; Chan, Shun-Wan; Yu, Zhiling; Chen, Sibao JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY NOV 18 2014
Integrated strategy of LC-MS and network pharmacology for predicting active constituents and pharmacological mechanisms of Ranunculus japonicus Thunb. for treating rheumatoid arthritis Wang, Zhao-Yi; Chu, Fu-Hao; Gu, Nian-Nian; Wang, Yi; Feng, Dan; Zhao, Xia; Meng, Xue-Dan; Zhang, Wen-Ting; Li, Chao-Feng; Chen, Yang; Wei, Shuang-Shuang; Ma, Zhi-Qiang; Lin, Rui-Chao; Zhao, Chong-Jun; Zou, Di-Xin JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY MAY 10 2021
Xiexin Tang ameliorates dyslipidemia in high-fat diet-induced obese rats via elevating gut microbiota-derived short chain fatty acids production and adjusting energy metabolism Xiao, Suwei; Zhang, Zhimiao; Chen, Mengjun; Zou, Junfeng; Jiang, Shu; Qian, Dawei; Duan, Jinao JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY SEP 15 2019
Reduction of interleukin-1 beta induced matrix metalloproteinase-3 release by extracts of six plants: inhibitory screening of 35 traditional medicinal plants Ra, Jehyeon; Chung, Joo-Ho; Lee, Heyjung; Kim, Jinju IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY AND IMMUNOTOXICOLOGY SEP 2011
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