Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rumex crispus L. [Polygonaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 6

Rumex crispus subsp. crispus

Rumex crispus subsp. littoreus (Hardy) Akeroyd

Rumex crispus var. mexicanus M.Martens & Galeotti

Rumex crispus subsp. robustus (Rech.) Pestova

Rumex crispus subsp. strictissimus (Rech.f.) Pestova

Rumex crispus subsp. uliginosus (Le Gall) Akeroyd

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amla-vedasa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bijbande surkh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chukkah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chukra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
chukrikaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
curled dock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
curly dock	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
dock	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
gya sho	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
idolo lenkonyana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kahaumututun	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
krauser ampfer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
krultongblaar	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
krusskräppa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kuraku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuzukulağı tohumu	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
labaça-crespa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
labaça-selvagem	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
lengua de vaca	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
língua-de-vaca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
paciencia	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
paciência	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
patience crépu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
patience crépue	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
patraamla	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
pdlivanchi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
reguette	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
rgya sho	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
rochani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
romana	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
romice conglomerato	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
romice crespo	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
rumex crispus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
rumex crispus whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
rumex crépu	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
rumex crêpu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
shatvedhani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shukku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shula-vedhi-chukra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sour dock	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
suk-gu-kire	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhm hummaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhm hummaz baryan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ubuhlunga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
weeblaar	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
yellow dock	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
zhou ye suan mo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
རྒྱ་ཤོ །	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
土大黃	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
牛耳大黃	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
牛耳大黄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牛耳大黄叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
皺葉羊蹄	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
羊蹄	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
針蹄草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
長葉羊蹄	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Root		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
root, seed, rhizome, leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rhizome		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lapathum crispum (L.) Scop. Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 261 (1771).
Rumex patientia var. crispus (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 560 (1891).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Rumex crispus	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Rumex crispus L	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Rumex crispus L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) European Red List of Medicinal Pl. (Allen et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rumex crispus Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Rumex crispusl L.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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