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• Dock

  Perennial herbs, common throughout the British Isles on neglected cultivated land, roadsides and river banks.

  The use of dock leaves to t... More ...

• Oak Apple Day in the schoolyard

  2 out of 4 people have heard of this.

  Up to the age of 11 I attended the local primary school … on 29 May all the children had to wear a piece of oak leaf, preferably with an oak ap... More ...

• Nettle sting cure from the 50s

  41 out of 49 people have heard of this.

  If one got a sting of a nettle and one rubbed a dock leaf it would cure it, and we did this as children and it seemed to bring relief. I am goi... More ...

• Docken

  6 out of 7 people have heard of this.

  The dock leaf or ‘docken’ … was a cure for a nettle sting, saying ‘Docken, docken, cure nettle,’ but this was not much good. The real cure was ... More ...

• God's plants

  Between Mendham Hill … and All Saints Church were several dried up ditches and stanks (Fr.étang?) copiously cropped not only with common nettles... More ...

• Stinging nettles - a cure

  121 out of 134 people have heard of this.

  For stinging nettle stings take a dock leaf, scrunch up a little and spit on it, and wipe the sting

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• Dock: a versatile herb

  2 out of 3 people have heard of this.

  Men working in the ironstone quarries near Deddington [Oxfordshire] often get a peculiar sore on their arms, and this they treat by cutting a do... More ...

• Dock has so many uses

  0 out of 1 people have heard of this.

  My husband used young dock roots to clear his blood; we were lucky and had a
  garden with lots of nettles and where there are nettles there... More ...

• Treating rheumatism with dock

  1 out of 1 people have heard of this.

  For rheumatism: Gather dock leaves, carefully dry them and bind them around the affected joint. (Said to be a complete cure)

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• Dock for cuts & scrapes

  0 out of 1 people have heard of this.

  When I was a child (I am now 91) we lived on the Isle of Man, we were quite hard up and couldn’t afford doctors’ bills. My father was mowing gr... More ...

• Use dock for sunburn or nettle stings

  4 out of 4 people have heard of this.

  As children in the 1920s dock leaves were picked to ease nettle stings and sunburn … we would wrap these around arms and legs

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• Stopping foot odour and perspiration

  5 out of 7 people have heard of this.

  My father was a builder and in going to work in hot weather, he always used to place a dock leaf in each boot (veins uppermost). These were tak... More ...

• Sore feet

  Dock leaves … inside shoes for sore feet

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• Dock for moist tobacco

  0 out of 1 people have heard of this.

  Farm workers put a dock leaf in their tobacco pouches to keep contents moist

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• Moist tobacco

  3 out of 4 people have heard of this.

  I know someone who uses dock leaves to keep his tobacco moist – he’s Jamaican

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• Dock for horses

  If the old horse-men found a dock root when they were ploughing they would pick it up and feed it to their HORSES … to... More ...

• Dock on the farm

  Docken – the seeds stripped off and lightly boiled were widely used as an addition to normal poultry feeding, and the stalks were used to make b... More ...