Rubia herbal

Morinda citrifolia, Rubia tinctorum (Rubiaceae) R. tinctorum herbal medicine used for kidney bladder stones Rubia tinctorum (Rubiaceae) ... 

The use of herbal medicines prepared from the root of Rubia tinctorum (madder) is no longer permitted in Germany. Root extracts have shown genotoxic effects in several test systems, which are attributed to the presence of the anthraquinone derivative lucidin. One of the other main components, alizarin primeveroside, is transformed into 1-hydroxyanthraquinone when given orally to the rat, in which this metabolite has carcinogenic activity (6). 

Rubia tinctorum Coloured copperplate print by Nicolaus Friedrich Eisen-berger, from the Herbal of Elisabeth Blackwell, Nuremberg (1765) and a photograph of the plant. 

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