Eruca, Rocket

Jirjir, Jirjeer (Unani)
Picture Wild Rocket
Fuchs, New Kreuterbuch, 1543

Picture Garden Rocket
Sturm et al, Flora von Deutschland in Abbildungen
nach der Natur, Zweite auflage, vol. 6, 1902

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Botanical name:


Eruca spp.
GARDEN ROCKET: E. sativa (syn. E. vesicaria, Brassica eruca)
WILD ROCKET: E. sylvestris

Parts used:


Seed

Temperature & Taste:


Hot, dry. Pungent

Classifications:


2B ATTENUATERS
3H. LACTAGOGUE.    3J. INCREASE SEMEN
4h. NEPHRITIC

Uses:


1. Warms the Kidneys, Benefits Yang:
-’used chiefly to provoke Venery’ (Schroder)
-Impotence, lack of Sexual desire

2. Warms the Stomach and Spleen:
-Cold and weakness (Yang deficiency) of the Stomach and Spleen
-Stomach Pain from Cold
-Phlegm and Damp diseases associated with Cold or Yang deficiency

3. Increases Breast Milk:
-lack of Breast milk due to Cold

4. Externally:
-Root externally to draw splinters of Bones
-Draw phlegm from the head when chewed or used as a snuff.
-seed or juice with Honey for pigment spots of the skin (Avicenna)


Dose:


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Main Combinations:


1. Impotence and to ‘provoke Lust’:
i. Rocket with  … available in PRO version
ii. Rocket with  … available in PRO version
2. Cold and Weak Kidneys, Rocket with  … available in PRO version
3. To Warm the Kidneys and nourish Sperm, Rocket with  … available in PRO version
4. Stomach Cold, Spleen Yang deficiency, Rocket with  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas


Pills for Coitus (Arnold de Villa Nova)
Powder to Stimulate Venery (Wecker)
Electuary which is Remarkably Effective
Antidote for Cold Kidneys and to Excite Libido (Nicholas)
Antidote for Cold Lumbar, for Venery, and Defect of Semen (Nicholas)
Electuary of Orchid (Diasatyrion) (Nicholas)

Cautions:


Very hot and dry; not suitable for Yin deficiency or Deficient Heat conditions.

Main Preparations used: