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Polygonaceae
Medical Definition: | The only family of the buckwheat order (Polygonales) of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It has 40 genera of herbs, shrubs, and trees. |
Guide Notes: | BUCKWHEAT & RHEUM are also available; prefer specific plant; coord with specific PLANT COMPONENTS term if pertinent; for use in therapy coord IM with PHYTOTHERAPY (IM) + disease/drug ther (IM) + PLANT PREPARATION or its indentations/ther use (IM or NIM) + |
Buckwheat - Either of two species (Fagopyrum esculentum, or sagittatum, and F. tataricum) of herbaceous plants and their edible seeds, used as a cereal grain. Although the seeds are used as cereal, the plant is not one of the cereal grasses (POACEAE). | |
Eriogonum - A plant genus of the family POLYGONACEAE. | |
Polygonum - A plant genus of the family POLYGONACEAE that is an ingredient of Shou-Wu-Pian, a Chinese herbal preparation (DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL). The common name of black bindweed also refers to TAMUS or Fallopia (use POLYGONACEAE). | |
Rheum - A plant genus of the family POLYGONACEAE. Members contain chrysophanic acid, rhein, EMODIN, and other anthraquinones. The roots were formerly used as purgatives. | |
Rumex - A plant genus of the family POLYGONACEAE that contains patientosides and other naphthalene glycosides. |
Polygonaceae Medical Definitions and Terms
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