Listed as a 'simple' for making medicine.

Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, (1817). Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburghensis. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; and others. p.9

Gerard says watercress (Nasturtium officinale), garden cress (Lepidium sativum), brooklime (Veronica beccabunga), and cardamine (bitter cress, cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis and other ) may be as good as Cochlearia in treating scurvy.

Gerard, J. (1975). The Herbal or General History of Plants. New York: Fascimile Dover Publications Inc .

Formerly grown as C. pratensis.

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