{"id":1552,"date":"2013-03-03T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2014-04-20T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:18:17","slug":"yellow-dock-rumex-crispus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Dock ~ Rumex crispus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rumex-crispus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1555\" title=\"Rumex crispus\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rumex-crispus1-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rumex-crispus1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Rumex-crispus1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Yellow Dock<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: <strong>Rumex crispus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Polgonaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: root<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: Europe<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: anthraquinone glycosides, tannins<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: bitter, cooling<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: cholagogue, alterative, tonic<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: laxative, nutritive<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: jaundice, chronic skin disease, constipation<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: iron-deficiency anemia, liver congestion<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: decoction: 1 tsp\/cup water; 1:5 dry tincture: 10-40 gtt qd-qid, capsules: 4 grams qd (Khalsa)<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: people with predisposition for calcium oxalate kidney stones (theoretical)<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Notes<\/em>: Dock : of the Rumex genus, buckwheat family (Polygonaceae- includes true sorrels and rhubarb), having long taproots and cluster flowers. [Middle English, from Old English docce. ark] The name dock is applied to a widespread tribe of broad leaved weeds- roots have astringent qualities (<em>Modern Herbal<\/em>, Grieve) Astringent and slightly cathartic roots are somewhat substitute for rhubarb (similar medicinal uses). There are about ten kinds of Docks native to England.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth; <\/span>Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Encyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Dock Latin name: Rumex crispus Family: Polgonaceae Part used: root Habitat: Europe Main constituents: anthraquinone glycosides, tannins Energetics: bitter, cooling Main herbal actions: cholagogue, alterative, tonic Minor herbal actions: laxative, nutritive Main medicinal uses: jaundice, chronic skin disease, constipation Minor medicinal uses: iron-deficiency anemia, liver congestion Preparations: decoction: 1 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,39,40,37,49,324,139,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alterative","category-bitter","category-cholagogue","category-cooling","category-laxative","category-module-2","category-nutritive-properties","category-tonic","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}