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Yellow Dock and Its History.

Yellow Dock Extract INCI Name Rumex Crispus Extract CAS 90106-41-5 EINECS ELINCS No 290-264-5 Rumex occidentalis Yellow Dock Alcohol Free Extract Yellow Dock-Extract Curled Dock photo picture image Like echinacea, yellow dock was a traditional snake plant, thought to help the body rid itself of venom.

 Yellow dock has a long history of use as an alterative. Alterative herbs have nonspecific effects on the gastrointestinal tract and the liver. As a result, they are thought to treat skin conditions that are attributed to toxic metabolites from mal-digestion and poor liver function.

 A favorite herb of the ancient Indians, old time doctors, early settlers and herbal practitioners. For some conditions it has no equal, especially if compounded with other supporting herbs. The rich and easily digested plant iron is one of the main contents of Yellow, so essential for man, animal and plant life. This common herb has valuable ingredients for conditions of the blood and glandular system and is indicated in scrofula, eruptive diseases, especially when discharges are experienced, as in running of the ears, ulcerated eyelids and skin conditions, itch, scurvy, etc.

 When accumulation of waste matters progress to swelling or tumors, Yellow dock is of service both internally and externally. Herbalists use the mineral-rich plant for cancer, leprosy, bleeding of the lungs and bowels and for rheumatic conditions. It also has much merit in dyspepsia, chronic bronchitis, ulcers and conditions affected by the spleen and Iymphatic glands; also for female weakness when due to iron deficiency.

 Yellow Dock has been used to treat skin complaints for centuries. The esteemed seventeenth-century herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper, regarded Docks as "exceeding[ly] strengthening to the liver and as wholesome a pot herb as any" in The English Physitian Enlarged of 1653, but it should be noted that Yellow Dock leaves should not be consumed in soups or salads, as they are high in oxalates and may cause oxalic acid poisoning. However, as a wild leaf vegetable, the young leaves have been consumed, but only after being boiled in several changes of water to reduce the oxalate content. Once the plant matures it

 becomes too bitter to consume. Yellow Dock has a rich history in American herbal history. Native Americans used it frequently in external skin remedies. The Teton Dakota tribes specifically applied it to boils to bring about the discharge of pus, and the Ojibwas applied it to cuts. By the 1800s,

 Yellow Dock is one species of a widespread tribe of wayside weeds that are native to Europe and now naturalized and growing wild throughout the United States and other temperate regions of the world, where it may be found growing in roadside ditches and waste places. As a matter of fact, it is often seen in disturbed soils at the edges of roads, railroad beds and parking lots. The plant has long roots that are difficult to eradicate once well established and are considered serious invasive weeds and subject to control as pests in several countries, particularly in Australia. It has even been designated an "injurious weed" under the United Kingdom Weeds Act of 1959. Its yellow, foot-long, forking taproots send up a smooth, slender, three-foot stem, bearing lance-shaped, smooth leaves with wavy or crisped margins, and the lower leaves are larger and longer than the upper, forming a large basal rosette. This herbaceous perennial also bears numerous, pale green, drooping flowers that bloom in June and July, and the plant thrives in rich, moist, heavy soil in sun or partial shade in temperate weather (it grows poorly in hot weather). Yellow Dock's botanical genus, Rumex, is derived from an old Latin word meaning "lance," referring to the shape of its leaves, but it is interesting to note that Docks were one ranked as members of the genus, Lapathum, which isderived from the Greek word, lapazein, which (more appropriately) means "to cleanse," an allusion to its medicinal virtues as a purifying plant.

 It is fair to say that yellow dock is far from decorative. It has evergreen leaves and a flower that looks like anything but. The seed mass is a rust color, reminiscent of a huge wad of tobacco. So, not everyone can be pretty. But as I like to say, don't judge a plant by its listing on the back of a can of weedkiller!

 Like dandelion and burdock, yellow dock was once a very popular spring tonic plant. In many parts of the world, people will tell you that meat prepared with dock cooks much faster than normal. I would say this is some special feature. All you folks on the run might want to let this plant stay on in your backyards for those occasions when you have to snap together a quick dinner.

 During North America's colonial days, one plant that came as a real surprise to the Europeans, and an unpleasant surprise at that, was poison ivy. The old-time treatment for a bad case of poison ivy (and as these were people who went to the bathroom in the woods, they got some really serious cases) was yellow dock boiled with vinegar and applied to the sores.

 Dock leaves were likewise used to treat scrofulous sores, sore eyes, and glandular swellings. To cure itchy skin, they were bruised, mixed with butter, lard, or cream, and placed on the problem area. The colonials also used the plant as a treatment for the runs, which was a common problem in the New World. They believed that if the plant was eaten on a regular basis, it would improve the eyesight as well.

 Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies):

 Yellow dock has a long history of use as an alterative. Alterative herbs have nonspecific effects on the gastrointestinal tract and the liver. As a result, they are thought to treat skin conditions attributed to toxic metabolites from poor digestion and poor liver function.

 The Mennonites were quite familiar with this weed. They called it halwer gaul and considered it the best blood purifier on the planet. Accordingly, they used it to treat liver problems of all kinds along with the skin problems resulting from poor liver function, and still do to this day. It's interesting to note that Arab physicians recommend the same plant for hepatitis and poor digestion, and they are a long, long way from the Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

 Not surprisingly for a plant with such widely recognized powers in aiding the liver, dock leaves were mixed with elderberry to draw the poison out of rattlesnake or copperhead bites. Like echinacea, yellow dock was a traditional snake plant, thought to help the body rid itself of venom.

 In 1898, a homeopathic doctor had a few choice words to toss in on this topic: "There are three localities in which this remedy acts very markedly, respiratory organs, bowels, and skin...There is perhaps no remedy under which the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea become more exalted than this one."

 So up to this point, yellow dock is good for the blood, liver, stomach, skin, and the respiratory tract. Could there be more? You know that the answer is yes.

 Good old Gerard recommended yellow dock as a key ingredient in a tonic which he claimed "cureth the dropsie, the yellow jaunders, all manner of itch, scabes, breaking out, and manginesse of the whole body...purifieth the blood from all corruption; prevaileth against the green sickness very greatly, and...maketh young wenches to look faire and cherrie like." I think my favorite line from that passage is "maketh young wenches to look faire and cherrie like." I wonder if Gerard called all women wenches. I think not. But if you want your wench to look fine, or if you are a wench yourself and would like to look the same, this is the plant for you.

 Various cultures around the world have used yellow dock for ailments ranging from cancer and tuberculosis to syphilis and leprosy to ringworm and hemorrhoids. In India, they even use the root juice for toothaches and the powdered roots for gingivitis and as a dentifrice. In what is perhaps a two-for-one deal, the Maori of New Zealand chew the leaf first and then apply it to wounds, which they claim then heal without visible scars. The overall universal conclusion is that this plant is one of the best.

 On a scientific level, researchers feel that herbal extracts may inhibit escherichia, salmonella, and staphylococcus. In other words, yellow dock contains several antimicrobial agents capable of killing off nasty little bacteria.

 Now this is a plant you can buy, collect, or let grow in your garden whenever it shows up, which it certainly will. The evergreen leaves and the root are the parts to use in your tonic, so gather them when you want. Remember, as with all our tonic ingredients, the rule is: the fresher, the better.

 Yellow Dock was considered a treatment for scrofula, leprosy, elephantiasis, scabby eruptions and hepatic tendencies, and it was listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1863 to 1905. The leaves are used in herbal medicine as a bitter, astringent, cooling herb that stimulates the liver and gallbladder and cleanses toxins from the system. Some of the constituents in Yellow Dock include beta-carotene, hyperoside, quercetin, quercitrin, rutin, tannin, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, zinc, B-vitamins and vitamin C.

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last edit date:20th,June.2009.