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WATER-CRESSES

Brunnenkresse

Nasturtium officinale

Cress (Water)

Planet:   Mond
Energie: sehr heiss und sehr trocken

Stichworte:
Skorbut Scurvy
Blut Blood
Säfte Humors
Steine Stone
Schmerzhafter Harndrang Disury
Provoziert die Menstruation Terms provokes
Geschwüre Ulcers
Sommersprossen Freckles
Pickel Pimples
Flecken Spots
Unlust Dulness
Trägheit Lethargy
  
Description: Our ordinary Water-Cresses spreadeth forth with many weak hollow sappy Stalks, shooting out fibres at the Joynts and upwards, long winged Leavs, made of sundry broad, sappy and almost round Leavs of a brownish green colour. The Flowers are many and white, standing on long Footstalks, after which come small yellow Seed, contained in smal long pods like Horns: The whol Plant abideth green in the Winter and tasteth somwhat hot and sharp.
Place: They grow (for the most part) in the smal standing Waters, yet somtimes in smal Rivulets of running Water.
Time: They Flower and Seed in the beginning of Summer.
Use: They are more powerful against the Scurvy, and to clens the Blood and Humors than Brooklime is, and serve in al the other uses in which Brooklime is available, as to break the Stone, and provoke Urin, and Womens Courses.
The Decoction therof clenseth Ulcers by washing them therwith. The Leavs brused, or the Juyce, is good to be applied to the Face, or other parts troubled with Freckles, Pimples, Spots, or the like, at night, and washed away in the morning, The Juyce mixed with Vineger, and the forepart of the Head bathed therwith is very good for those that are dull and drowsie, or have the Lethargy.
Water-cress Pottage is a good Remedy to clens the Blood in the Spring and help Head-aches, and consume the gross Humors Winter hath left behind, those that would live in health may use it if they pleas, if they will not I cannot help it: If any fancy not Pottage they may eat the Herb as a Sallet.
Edgenote: Scurvy, Blood, Humors, Stone, Disury, Terms provokes, Ulcers, Freckles, Pimples, Spots, Dulness, Lethargy.
22.12.2024 J.N.