• Yellow Dock

    From Skuz@9:91/1 to All on Sat Jan 25 22:45:00 2014

    Wild yellow dock, which belongs to the buckwheat family, can be found growing throughout the world. It is flowering perennial characterized by narrow
    leaves that curl along the edges, giving it the alternate names curled dock, narrow dock, narrow-leafed dock, and garden patience. Yellow dock is easy to find in fields, gardens, on roadsides, and near the seashore in the early spring. It has long, lance-shaped, hairless leaves with very wavy margins radiating from the center. The young leaves taste like lemons and are highly nutritious. Leaves are delicious either raw or cooked in the early spring,
    and both the peeled flower stalk and its leaves are delicious in the mid-spring. In mid-spring, yellow dock grows as one- to five-foot tall spikes with dense clusters of tiny, inconspicuous, green flowers that give way to dense clusters of the hard, red fruit.

    The root of yellow dock is medicinal. In traditional medicines yellow dock
    has been used to treat psoriasis and other skin conditions, including
    itching, sores, swelling, and scabs. Native Americans also used the leaves to cure boils and the roots to heal cuts. Many people boil the long yellow
    taproot and drink the bitter tea to detoxify and to help with liver and skin ailments. Yellow dock is used as a tonic, laxative and stomachache reliever. Additionally, the plant's seeds are thought to be useful in treating
    dysentery, and the plant is helpful in treating respiratory ailments.

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