GPT and tuberculosis: Furthermore, the oral administration of raw rhubarb powder as an adjuvant in the treatment of jaundice hepatitis significantly improved the pathological damage to the liver of patients and markedly reduces the levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and total bilirubin (TB) in the liver tissue and serum, possibly through the modulation of the Fas/FasL system by rhubarb (Huang et al., 2008).