Scientific Name: (Fucus Vesiculosus, Fucaceae Family)
Common Name: Bladder Wrack, Gulf Wrack, Black Tang, Rockweed, Bladder Fucus, Sea Oak, Cut Weed, Dyers Fucus, Red Fucus, and Rock Wrack
Medicinal Part: The Dried Plant
Description: Sea Wrack grows on the muddy rocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf and often floats to the shore. It is 40 inches long and about 1/2 inch broad, flattened, branched with a mid-rib; air vessels in pairs; blackish; seaweed odor; saline; mucilaginous taste.
Properties and Uses: It is considered alterative (herbs that gradually restore the proper function of the body and increase health and vitality) and has been employed as such in some cases of reducible overweight. Added to soups and stocks, taken as tablets, as an extract, or drunk as a tea 2-3 times a day. Health benefits include: thyroid health, women’s health, inflammatory conditions, digestive health, Heart health, fiber content, obesity and weight control, better vision, anti-aging, and diabetes.
Dose and Preparation: A teaspoonful of the dried plant to a cup of boiling water. Drink cold one to two cupfuls a day. A large mouthful at a time. Of the tincture, 1/2 to 1 fl. dr. Bioactive at 500mg.