Chinese rhubarb - Rheum officinale
Gardens former gothic abbey Villers La Ville, Aug 2020.
Rheum officinale Baill (Chinese rhubarb) is one of the most popular traditional herbal medicines that has pharmacological activities such as cathartic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidative, and it is well known to promote excretion and decrease reabsorption of bilirubin, so it has been widely used alone or in combination with other crude drugs for the treatment of cholestatic hepatitis from ancient times in China .
''Rheum officinale'', the Chinese rhubarb, or Indian rhubarb is a rhubarb from the family Polygonaceae native to China. In Chinese it is called ''yào yòng dà huáng'' , literally meaning ''medicinal rhubarb''.