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Recorded uses of dock (Rumex sp.)

Scientific Name	Remedy Name	Plant Part	Use	Preparation	Place used	Year used	Contributor Age
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To reduce the pain of stinging nettle rash	Entire leaf applied to skin	Greater London	1940s-50s	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To reduce the pain of stinging nettle rash	Entire leaf applied to skin	Greater London	1940s-50s	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaves	nettle stings	wipe on sting	Middlesex	1940's-present	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting	rub on until juice comes out on sting	Nottingham	2003
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash				Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	picked	Scotland
Rumex	Dock						50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	Leaf	To relieve nettle stings	Break leaf and rub on afflicted part. (can help if you spit on the leaf first)	Hull	1950s- present	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	just rub it on the sting	Lots of places		9
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Pick leaves and rub on affected area			Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To reduce pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub directly on skin with saliva.	Yorkshire		30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaves	stings	-	-	-	Not given
Rumex	Dock leaf	leaf	nettle stings	fresh from the plant and applied to the sting	London	Present	54
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Crush a leaf onto the rash and then put a fresh leaf on to keep the shin cool.	London	1940s-present	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	Leaf	To stop itching of stinging nettle	Just rub on affected area			10
Rumex	Dock	leaf	relieve sunburn or bites, nettle stings	wrapped round affected area (sometimes held in place with bandage and left)	Middlesex	1950's	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Pick the leaves and rub on the wound			Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease the pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub leaves on affected area	Kent	1950	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaves	nettle stings	rub on	Devon	1970's-80's	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaves	for when you get stung	rubbed on skin	England	-	10
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To relieve stinging nettle rash	Rub raw leaf over affected area		1970s	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaves	alleviating stinging from nettles	used as a leaf, rubbed on	East Carlton Park, Northamptonshire	-	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to soothe nettle stings	scrunched up and rubbed on affected area	London	1949-60's	61
Rumex	Dock	leaf	stinging nettle rash	straight from the plant - rub on	Croyden, Surrey	1950s	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	counteracting nettle stings	freshly picked and rubbed on affected area	Hampshire	1965-1972	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	Athletic injuries	Footballers boiled dock leaves, let them cool overnight, then apply to the knee or ankle, wrap with light bandage, they were bound to be playing the following week	Lancashire	1950s	60
Rumex	Dock	leaf	for nettle stings	rub onto stings	London	-	37
Rumex	Dock	leaf	calm down stings from nettles	just rubbed/held against sting	W. London	1950's	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to relieve the pain of stinging nettles	just rub it on	Wandworth	1950s	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To reduce pain from stinging nettle stings	Rub the leaf on the sting		1940s- present	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To calm skin after being stung by stinging nettles	Just applied to the skin	Harrow	1950s - present	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	Stinging nettle rash	Soften leaf in warm water and bind around affected area	Warwickshire	1948-52	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	just placed onto place of rash (sting)	Ickenham		10
Rumex	Dock	leaf					6
Rumex	Dock	Leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub onto nettle sting then hold it around it	N E England	1970	37
Rumex	Dock	new leaves	nettles	the heart of the plant with the slime is rubbed on quite hard	Ireland, Kilkenny/Wexford	1950's	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease sting of nettle rash	Rub leaf straight onto rash	Yorkshire	1970s	37
Rumex	Dock	leaf	sting	raw	Staines		7
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To relieve rash of stinging nettles	Squash the leaves and rub on rash	London	1940s	68
Rumex	Dock	leaves	stinging nettle soothing	rubbed on	London	recently	38
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	picked and apply to the stem whole	Ansdell	2003
Rumex	Dock	leaves	alleviate the pain of nettle stings	rubbed in	The Fens	1940's	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaves	relieve stinging nettle stings	-	-	1930's-today	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting	just rub on affected part	Suffolk	1940-present	Not given
Rumex	Dock	Leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Apply leaf raw	Cotswolds	1930	70 - 100+
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting	-	-	-	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaves	stinging nettle relief	fresh leaves rubbed on affected area	Dorset	1970	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	raw	-	-	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting	just as it grows	Aldershot	1942	70 - 100+
Rumex	Dock	leaf	cure Nettle stings	pick the leaf and rub it on the affected area	London	for always	Not given
Rumex	Dock	(body of) leaf	stopping the effects of a nettle sting	picking a dock leaf from the growing plant (always) situated next to the nettle plant and rubbing it on the affected area of skin	Preston	1970's -1980's	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	pick and rub	Ireland	2001	7
Rumex	Dock	leaf	relief of stinging nettle	leaf placed on skin and kept there. Raw.	Kent	1950's	53
Rumex	Dock	leaf	ease skin irritation from stinging nettle	straight from the plant	Devonshire	c. 1936	70 - 100+
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting				30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To relieve nettle stings	Raw leaves scrunched up and rubbed on effected area	Holland, Portugal and UK	always	70 - 100+
Rumex	Dock	leaf	stings from nettle	skin rubbed with raw leaf	?	very recent	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaves	soothing nettle stings	rubbed on the sting so that the juice soothed	Watford	1930's+	75
Rumex	Dock leaves	leaf	Nettle Stings	Poultice - rubbed leaf on knee	South London	1950s	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	leaves and spit then roll on sting	Bournemouth		34
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to cure nettle stings	picked	-	now	7
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to soothe nettle sting	pick leaf and wrap around area immediately	8 miles south of Glasgow	1950's	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to soothe nettle sting	rubbed on sting vigorously, irritation of sting goes	Gloucestershire	present	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	stop the stinging of stinging nettles	spit on dock leaf, then rubbed raw on stinging nettle rash	Nottinghamshire	1970's	33
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub leaves on affected area	London	2001	6
Rumex	Dock	leaf	taking bee sting off flesh	straight from wild plants (always found in company of stinging nettles)	Essex	1924	78
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub leaves on affected area	Grays		50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	to heal nettle stings	put the leaf on the sting	England		9
Rumex	Dock	leaf	antidote to stinging nettles	squeezed so that juice went onto skin	Herts	1940/50	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaves	rub into nettle sting	just rub on	Bournemouth	1960	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaves	soothing nettle sting	rub it on the sting	Leicestershire	today	Up to 30
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of nettle sting rash	Leaf rubbed on rash	England	1940s	Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle sting	rub it on	London	present	10
Rumex	Dock	leaves	nettle stings	pick a dock leaf and rip it. Rip into small pieces until about cm squared and squeeze juice out of it and rub on sting	Newcastle	-	9
Rumex	Dock	central sprout	curing nettle rash	pulled off, releasing the sticky young sap, apply it to the affected area	Oxfordshire	1970's	35
Rumex	Dock	leaves	nettle rash	Plucked and rubbed on rash. The two plants dock and nettles were always found growing close together.	Fulham, Putney Heath, Roehampton, Richmond	-	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	relief for nettle rash	pressed to site of sting	Leicestershire	1960's	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	just placed on sting	Brentford	1930-40's	Not given
Rumex	Dock	Leaf	To relieve the pain of stinging nettle rash	Rub eaves on rash	Leamington Spa	1995 - present	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock leaf	leaf	To ease nettle stings	Rubbed on affected area	South Wales		30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	squeeze it and rub the nettle sting			9
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of stinging nettle rash	Pick leaves and rub on affected area			Not given
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	crush and rub on rash, lubricated with spit	County Durham, England	-	30 - 50
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To relieve pain of stinging nettle rash	Mash the leaves and mix up with water	Herefordshire		17
Rumex	Dock	leaf	nettle stings	squash and rub leaf onto sting	Cheshire	1950	59
Rumex	Dock	leaf	stings from nettles	direct application to stung area, by rubbing leaf - almost instant relief from itching	United Kingdom	since 1960's	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock Leaf	leaf	Nettle Sting	Rubbed on the sting	Deri, Bargoedm, Mid-Glamorgan, Wales	1950s	50 - 70
Rumex	Dock	leaf	To ease pain of nettle sting rash	Crush up leaves and rub juice on sting	Long Ditton	2001	12
Rumex	Dock	leaves	nettle stings	raw leaves, rub on nettle stings	Andover, Hampshire	1950's	54
Rumex	Dock	leaves	soothing nettle stings	rubbed on raw	Welsh marshes	1930's-1940's	74
Rumex	Dock	leaf	cure stinging nettle's stings	rub it on the sting	-	2003