Names
Shoshone:
day·ah·koo
English: Curly Dock “known as Yellow-Dock”
Scientific: Rumex crispus
Zone
Upper Foothills
Harvest Time
- Spring
- roots foot long, peel down to yellow core
- Late summer for seed pods dry
- Early summer for medicinal roots
Primary Uses
- Ground-up roots can be purchased
- Seed pods = indian tobacco
- Roots: for bleeding wounds for abrasions
Secondary Uses
- Young leaves: food
Cautions
- Some problems can get worse initially after the Rx, then clear up (skin rash). Dilute seeds with other tobacco before use when smoking.
Active Principle(s)
- Chrysophanic acid
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Notes
- Peeling outer bark from foot-long taproot, shows yellow root. Dice up and dry this out then put in sun-tea
- Dry seed pods for tobacco additive: Indian tobacco
- 3 to 4 Tsp in 1 gallon water
Medicinal Uses
- Abrasion: Split fresh roots topically or cold tea
- Allergy: Root cold infusion drunk daily in spring
- Bleeding: Tea for bleeding ulcers
- Burns: Fresh root applied to burns
- Constipation: Root tea 3x/day
- Detox: Root tea for liver detox to clean blood
- Healing: Root tea as general detox
- Hemorrhoids: Root tea internal 3x/day
- Kidney Stones: Root tea for stones
- Liver: Root tea to de-fat fatty liver
- Nervous system: Root tea used to treat nervousness
- Rash: Root tea to treat allergic rashes due to fatty liver
- Skin: Root tea for acne and skin allergy reactions