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BROOK-LIME VERONICA BECCABUNGA Brook-lime and Watercresses are generally used together in diet drinks with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvy. Otherwise known as Water Pimpernel, it is an aquatic plant that sends forth a creeping root with strings at every joint. It produces small blue flowers. Where to find it: It grows in shallow streams and at the edges of ponds and usually near Watercresses. Flowering time: Early to midsummer. Astrology: A hot and biting martial plant. Medicinal virtues: It provokes the urine and helps to break the stone and pass it away. It procures women's courses and expels the dead child. Fried with butter and vinegar and applied warm, it helpeth all manner of tumours, swellings and inflammations. Modern uses: Not used in modern practice by herbalists, but a homoeopathic preparation of Veronica beccabunga is available on prescription from homeopathic physicians. |