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Home -> Shop By Store -> Yellow DockYellow DockBotanical NameRumex crispus Introduction Yellow Dockleaves are crisped at their edges. It grows freely in our roadside ditches and waste places. The roots are 8 to 12 inches long, about 1/2 inch thick, fleshy and usually not forked. Externally they are of a rusty brown and internally whitish, with fine, straight, medullary rays and a rather thick bark. Yellow Dock has little or no smell and a rather bitter taste. The stem is 1 to 3 feet high and branched, the leaves, 6 to 10 inches long. Parts Used and where Grown Yellow Dock is found in many places throughout North America. The root of the plant is used in herbal medicine. Medical Uses Yellow Dock is used extensively in the treatment of chronic skin complaints such as psoriasis. The anthraquinones present have a markedly cathartic action on the bowel, but in this herb they act in a mild way, possible tempered by the tannin content. Thus Yellow Dock makes a valuable remedy for constipation, working as it does in a much wider way than simply stimulating the gut muscles. It promotes the flow of bile and has that somewhat obscure action of being a " blood cleanser' The action on the gall-bladder gives it a role in the treatment of jaundice when this is due to congestion.Yellow Dock specific indications are bad blood with chronic skin disease; bubonic swellings; low deposits in glands and cellular tissues, and tendency to indolent ulcers; feeble recuperative power; irritative, dry laryngo- tracheal cough; stubborn, dry, summer cough; chronic sore throat, with glandular enlargements and hypersecretion; nervous dyspepsia, with epigastric fullness and pain extending through left half of chest; cough, with dyspnoea and sense of praecordial fullness. Are there any side effects or interactions? Aside from mild diarrhea or loose stools in some people, yellow dock is rarely associated with side effects.At the time of writing, there were no well-known drug interactions with Yellow Dock. |
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