Winter-Rocket, Or Cresses

Barbarea vulgaris

HRB-0245Entry “WINTER-ROCKET, OR CRESSES” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 5, under 5 headings

  1. GravelCLM-000825
    This is profitable to provoke urine, to help stranguary, and expel gravel and stone.
    QUO-000640Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. ScurvyCLM-0014881850 index
    It is good for the scurvy, and found by experience to be a singularly good wound herb to cleanse inward wounds;
    QUO-001012Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StoneCLM-001737
    This is profitable to provoke urine, to help stranguary, and expel gravel and stone.
    QUO-000640Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. UlcersCLM-001992
    the juice or decoction being drank, or outwardly applied to wash foul ulcers and sores, cleansing them by sharpness, and hindering or abating the dead flesh from growing therein, and healing them by their drying quality.
    QUO-001255Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. WoundsCLM-002231
    It is good for the scurvy, and found by experience to be a singularly good wound herb to cleanse inward wounds;
    QUO-001012Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.