Właściwości lecznicze szczawi (Rumex. sp. L.)

© Borgis - Postępy Fitoterapii 3-4/2005, s. 98-102

Magdalena Wegiera, Danuta H. Smolarz

Summary
Therapeutic properties of plants from Rumex L. genus were already known in antiquity – they were consumed as vegetables, used in medicine, some of them were grown. At the present time, docks are used in traditional therapy as antidiarrhoeas, cholagogue and antispasmatic materials, whereas externally, in different skin diseases. Interestingly, as the latest coverages note, they demonstrate antiinflamatory, antibacterial, antifungial and anticancer effects, too.

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