Rheum palmatum (rhein, a hydroxyanthraquinone)
rheum palmatum rhein a hydroxyanthraquinone
Rhubarb root's emodin cools the inflammatory fire in lung tissue and guards its delicate air sacs, so oxygen crosses into the blood more readily.
What the evidence shows
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Works on both halves of the illness, and it was given by mouth. Left ventricular function improved in the autoimmune model; against the virus it suppresses the inflammatory axis the infection exploits. Sourced from Rheum palmatum, and only Rheum palmatum: this is the rhubarb root itself, which is what you receive, and emodin is one anthraquinone inside it. The safety literature on purified emodin — mutagenic in a bacterial assay after metabolic activation, liver effects infused into rodent diet — describes the isolated compound at pharmacological dose, and the same literature states the concentrations in traditional preparations may sit below those thresholds. A formula is not a single isolated molecule.
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