Yellowdock
Yellowdock (not my picture)
Latin: Rumex crispus
Other
Names: Amla vetasa
(Sanskrit name), Chin-ch'iao-mai, Curled dock, Curly dock, Garden patience, Narrow
Dock, Parell, Rumex, Sour dock
Magickal
Attributes: Business,
Fertility to conceive, Healing, Luck, Money, Prosperity
Medicinal
& Other Uses: Anemia,
Anti-inflammatory, Anti-spasmodic, Anti-tumor, Astringent, Blood purifier,
Boils, Detoxifier, Diuretic, Hepatitis, Immune stimulant, Increases platelets,
Itching, Jaundice, Liver, Lymphatic system enhancer, Spleen re-builder, Ulcers
Deities: N/A
Gender: M
Planet: Jupiter
Element: Air
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Harvest
Time:
Autumn after
the seeds turn brown
Garden
Uses:
N/A
Plant Feed
Recipe:
N/A
Culinary
Uses:
Cook the
leaves as a pot herb side dish. Seeds can be ground to make a flour, boiled to make coffee, or infused to make tea.
Other
Uses:
Salves
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Parts
& Their Uses
Astringent
Blood
purifier
Detoxifier
Diuretic
Flowers:
N/A
Drying
Flowers:
N/A
Leaves:
Apply crushed
leaves to boils, itches & rashes.
Combine with Burdock
& Dandelion to make a healing tea.
Roots:
Macerate root
into a pulp and apply to cuts, wounds & swellings.
Whole
Plant:
Dried,
crushed and made into a tea, especially in combination with Burdock &
Dandelion.
Tinctures:
Fill a jar
with Yellowdock root and cover with grain alcohol. Keep stored in the dark for several
weeks before using.
Oils:
To make a
very strong preparation is to take a quantity of root to fill a crock pot and
cover it with olive oil. Put this on the low heat and leave for 12 hours and
then strain. Then put more root in the same oil again until you have used three
batches of root. This causes the oil to be a very strong representative of
yellow dock. It can be used in any type of itch. You can also add other
astringents and soothing agents such as oak bark or comfrey root to this for
various purposes, but yellow dock can be used alone. I usually add poke leaves
with the root in order to help with eczema, etc. Enough beeswax is added to
make the oil a salve consistency.
Infusions:
To make a Yellowdock
syrup:
Take a pint
of distilled water and boil down half pound of yellow dock root to about a cupful. Strain the liquid in a sieve and throw away the
boiled root. Add half a cup dark honey, half a cup blackstrap molasses (thick,
dark, heavy sweet syrup) and one teaspoon of pure maple syrup to the strained
liquid. You may also add a pinch of vanilla. Blend everything
by hand to a smooth, thick, sweet, sticky liquid or syrup. This
syrup may be taken one teaspoon at a time to help bronchitis, asthma as well as stop a tickling or scratching in the throat or lungs.
Infusion
Recipe:
Decoction:
use 1 tsp. root in 1 cup boiling water, cover with a saucer, and let stand for
1/2 hour, strain and reheat. Sweeten with honey, if desired. Take hot, 1 to 2
cups a day.
Powder: for
skin problems the dose is 12 grains.
Syrup: boil
1/2 lb. of crushed root in 1 pint of syrup; taken in tsp. doses 3-4 times a
day.
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