It has several names — yellow dock, sour dock, garden patience, narrow leaf dock and curly dock. The entire plant is useful and all types of dock are edible. Rumex crispus (curly or yellow dock ...

Similar to dock, this variety is also known as yellow dock, and has wavy-edged leaves and a slightly bitter taste. Nutritional Content: Rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc, also contains iron ...

Botanical Description: Yellow dock is a perennial herbaceous plant with large green leaves 15-35 centimeters long, with a lancelike appearance and a curly border on the edge. The stems are striped ...

When tobacco arrived on these shores, gentlemen lined their pouches with dock leaves to keep the contents moist. Equally valued was the curly-leaved Rumex crispus, also known as the yellow dock, sun ...

Rubbing a lettuce leaf on a nettle sting to ease the associated discomfort may be just as good as using the age-old folk remedy of a dock leaf, suggest the results of a small comparative study ...

When the Yellow Leaf Arts Festival celebrated its 21st anniversary the last week in October, it drew on the musical arts and the connections to the young musicians influenced by its sister event ...

Dock leaves are the traditional remedy for nettle stings, but scientists have found a new little gem. Rubbing a lettuce leaf on a nettle rash appears to be just as good at taking away the pain as ...

Dock leaves for nettle stings are an ancient remedy but may be unscientific, say researchers Credit: Getty The ancient folk remedy is more than 600 years old but the science behind it is untested.

Rubbing a dock leaf on the affected area to ease the ensuing discomfort is a well-known ancient folk remedy first mentioned 600 years ago by Geoffrey Chaucer in "Troilus and Criseyde," the ...