DOSE: A decoction is made from 1 ounce of bark in 1 quart of water, boiled down to 1 pint, and taken in
wineglassful doses.
EXTERNALLY: Excellent as a gargle for sore or relaxed throat. For neck enlargements, fomentations are
beneficial if applied often. Native Americans are known to have allowed acorn meal to go moldy in a
dark, damp place and then scraped the mold off for application to boils, sores, and other inflammations.
HOMEOPATHIC CLINICAL: Tincture of acorns (peeled and crushed or shredded), spirit distilled from
tincture (spiritus glandium quercus), water extract of acorn with addition of alcohol (aqua glandium
quercus) for alcoholism, breath (offensive), constipation, diarrhea, dropsy (splenic), fistula, dizziness,
gout, intermittent fever, leukemia splenica, spleen (affections of).
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: Oak, or in Russian, dub, grows wild; besides being used medicinally it is also
widely used in industry, especially in the food and tanning trades. Folk medicine: Oak bark should be
collected in the early spring while the sap is active. The bark must be from young branches, twigs, and
thin young trunks. Decoctions are used for diarrhea, menstrual disturbance; tea and decoction with honey
for tubercular lungs, gastritis, bleeding from the bladder and bloody urine, and as a gargle for swollen or
irritated tongue; coffee of acorns for scrofula, children’s skin rash, hysteria. Externally: Antiseptic for
malignant wounds containing decayed cells. A tea solution prepared for painful bleeding and itching
hemorrhoids. Can also be used to stop falling hair and dandruff. Leaves and bark for inflammation of
burns.