Rumex crispus

A variable, native, erect perennial flowering plant.

Synonym: Curly Dock, Yellow Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock

Botanical name: Rumex crispus L.

Medicinal name: Rumex crispus

Parts use: leaves  

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Polygonaceae
 

Genus: Rumex

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Species: R. crispus

Flowering: April - May.

        Rumex crispus

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, railroads, waste ground, disturbed sites.

Origin: native to Europe and Western Asia.

Colour: The mature plant is a reddish brown colour.

Stems: 2m tall, simple or branching at the apex, erect, from a big taproot, herbaceous, glabrous, ribbed, becoming red with age.

Leaves: Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate with cuneate or subcordate base, margins strongly undulate. The leaves of this plant from which the drug is poetized are found to contain bin oxalate of potash.

Drug action: mucus membrane of the larynx, trachea, bronchi and bronchioles.