Herbal Yellow Dock: Iron Deficiency Treatment, Remedy and Benefits

Yellow Dock (Rumex Crispus - botanical name 6) a herbal plant, one of approximately 20 species of dock.(Sometimes referred to by other names: Narrow Dock, Curly Dock, Curled Dock, Garden Patience, and Rumex 14) . The herb has been relied upon for hundreds of years by ancient Indians, old time doctors, early settlers and herbal practitioners for medicinal qualities. 11 Also yellow dock is a member of the buckwheat family: Annual grown grain or dry seed of which is consumed for food or feed and a starchy seed processed (pounded) into meat or flour.1 Yellow Dock is leafy stem plant with large or small leaves, and abundance of flowers growing thick horizontally. 9 It is a perennial herb with twisted leaf edges. 19 During June and July the herbal plant dropping flowers bloom. 15 The leaves are displayed in flower arrangements and produce a red, gold or dark green dye. 13 Often Yellow Dock is hanged on stalks upside down to dry in a shed, for use in autumn wreaths. 15 Yellow Dock herbal plant roots extend 20 - 30 cm in length and the stem is approximately 1.5 cm thick. "It grows in any rich, heavy soil in weedy places such as roadsides, ditches to 1500 m altitude. Yellow Dock is easy to cultivate." 14