Curly Dock: Would You Care to Try My Aphrodisiac Toothpaste?
FROM: PULLUPYOURPLANTS.COM
Medicinally, Yellow Dock has seemingly been used for everything — by every culture — forever. Unfortunately, it was also heavy-peddled on the medicine show circuit alongside glass bottles of snake oil liniment and sarsaparilla tonic.
Traveler, while it is hard to tell which medicinal uses came from ancient linages and which came from the ‘patent medicine’ quack carts of the 1800’s, you will be surprised to learn the YELLOW DOCK is a plant of EXQUISITE VIRTUE.
***The Narrator dons his cumber bun and top hat***
Whether you are looking for a YELLOW DYE, salad green, APHRODISIAC, TOOTHPASTE, or a COFFEE SUBSTITUTE, this plant has its own EXTREME MERITS to tout.
So, STEP RIGHT UP!
***With baton, the Narrator raps thrice upon his stage coach***
Have a gander at this vegetative WONDER-PLANT. It is a MARVEL to BEHOLD and can ONLY BE FOUND growing, EXOTICALLY, along the side of every road on the PLANET EARTH!
*** The narrator sprouts an elegantly waxed mustache***
Welcome to the WILD and unexpectedly VERSATILE world of:
Rumex crispus
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By: Kevin Healey
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