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White Oak

Botanical Name
Quercus robur

Synonym
Tanner's Bark.

Other varieties
Red oak (Q. rubra); Black oak (Q. tinctoria); English oak (Q. robur)

Herb Introduction
The shape of the oak leaves is too familiar to need description. The flowers are of two kinds; the male, or barren, in long drooping catkins, 1 to 3 inches long, appearing with the leaves, and the leaves and the fertile flowers in distant clusters, each with a cup-shaped, scaly involucres, producing, as fruit, an acorn 1/2 to 1 inch long. oak is a large, native North American tree; usually 60-100 feet high, but may grow as tall as 150 feet with a trunk diameter up to 8 feet. White oak bark is pale gray, and the leaves have rounded or finger-shaped lobes. The alternate, deciduous leaves are bright green and hairless, widest beyond the middle, with 3-5 pairs of rounded lobes. Light brown, ovoid acorns grow on current year's twigs in bowl-shaped cups enclosing a quarter of the acorn.

Medicinal Action
oak is useful in chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, either alone or in conjunction with aromatics. Externally, this decoction has been advantageously employed as a gargle in chronic sore throat with relaxed uvula, and also as a fomentation. oak is also serviceable as an injection for leucorrhoea, and applied locally to bleeding gums and piles. Sinceoakcontains tannin, experimentally, tannic acid is antiviral, antiseptic, antitumor and carcinogenic.

Warning
Red oak contain Tannic acid therefore it is potentially toxic.
 

Products

White Oak Bark
White Oak Bark
100 Caps
$5.06

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