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White Oak | | Name : | White Oak | | Synonyms : | CommonWhite Oak
Hu(Chinese name)
Tanner'sbark
| | Parts Used : | Bark | | Habitat : | Grows from Canada southward to the Gulf of Mexico, as far west asTexas. Found in upland woods. | | Description : | White oak is a large, native North American tree; usually 60-100feet high, but may grow as tall as 150 feet with a trunk diameterup to 8 feet. White oak bark is pale gray, and the leaves have roundedor finger-shaped lobes. The alternate, deciduous leaves are brightgreen and hairless, widest beyond the middle, with 3-5 pairs of roundedlobes. Light brown, ovoid acorns grow on current year's twigs in bowl-shapedcups enclosing a quarter of the acorn.
Other varieties: Red oak (Q. rubra); Black oak (Q. tinctoria);English oak (Q. robur) | | Constituents : | Calcium, cobalt, 15-20% tannin, iron, phosphorus, potassium, sodium,sulfur, and vitamin B12.
Astringent, tonic, antiseptic, anthelmintic, styptic | | Uses : | Good for hemorrhoids (SEE PILES), PMS (SEE PMS), varicose veins (SEEVARICOSE VEINS), goiter (SEE HYPOTHYROID), gallstones (SEE GALLBLADDERDISORDERS), kidney stones (SEE KIDNEY DISEASES), fever (SEE FEVER),sores (SEE SORES), wounds (SEE WOUNDS), sore throat (SEE SORE THROAT),canker sores (SEE CANKER SORES), menstrual problems (SEE DYSMENORRHEA),gonorrhea (SEE GONORRHEA), leukorrhea, stomach troubles (SEE INDIGESTION,and bladder problems (SEE CYSTITIS). Good for teeth. Tea used in enemasand douches. Used for chronic diarrhea (SEE DIARRHEA), dysentery (SEEDYSENTERY), ringworm, chronic mucous discharge, poison-ivy rash (SEEPOISON IVY), burns (SEE BURNS), pinworms (SEE WORMS), hemostatic.Stops hemorrhages in the lungs (SEE TB), stomach (SEE ULCERS), scrofula,and bowels (SEE COLITIS), spitting of blood, stops vomiting. Usedfor inflammations (SEE INFLAMMATION), boils (SEE BOILS), sores (SEESORES), infections (SEE INFECTION) internally and externally. Folkcancer remedy. Since it contains tannin, experimentally, tannic acidis antiviral, antiseptic, antitumor and carcinogenic.
Taken internally for poisoning by strychnine, veratrine, and othervegetable alkaloids.
A poultice of powdered oak bark and wheat flour combined with a littleboiled water draws out slivers or splinters and other foreign substances.A wash of oak, or oak combined with witch hazel bark, is an excellentnight-time compress for varicose veins (SEE VARICOSE VEINS) and brokencapillaries under the skin.
The galls have the same properties as the bark. | | Dosage : | Use dried powdered bark from the branches.
Infusion: steep 1 tbsp. bark in 1 pint water, simmering for10 minutes. Take up to 3 cups a day.
Decoction: use 1 oz. of inner bark and 2 pints of water, boileddown to 1 pint and strained. Take 1 cup every 1 to 2 hours until relieffrom diarrhea or dysentery if felt.
Some reports of good results with powdered bark in gelatine capsulesto relieve diarrhea or dysentery. Take 2 capsules swallowed with aglass of warm water 3 to 4 times a day.
Wash, enema or douche: steep 1 heaping tsp. in 1 qt. waterfor 30 minutes and strain. Apply often. | | Safety : | Tannic acid is potentially toxic. | | Myths : | The acorns are astringent like the bark; but when shelled, groundinto a meal and soaked in running water for a few hours, the tannicacid is leached out. They then may be used as a nutritive tonic forwasting diseases.
In some areas, Native Americans would gather 500 lb. per family,which was a year's supply. These were stored and later used for bread,pudding, soup, etc., prepared fresh from the ground acorn. They alsowere known to have allowed acorn meal to go moldy in a dark, dampplace, and then scrape the mold off for application to boils, sores,and other inflammations.
There are about 40 species of the genus Quercus in China. | | Nutrient : | Calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and vitamin B12. | | Sold : | Capsules |
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