     
BENEFITS OF
CRESSES
All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against
the scurvy.
The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the
brain.
The ordinary “mustard and cress” of our salads is good for
rheumatic patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases
of tubercular disease. Anæmic patients may also eat freely of
it on account of the iron it contains. Care should be taken,
however, from whence it is procured, as a disease peculiar to
sheep but communicable to man may be carried by it. It should
not be gathered from streams running through meadows inhabited
by sheep.
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