A small plant with blue flowers that grows in or near brooks and wet places, used traditionally in herbal medicine.
Compound from 'brook' (stream) and 'lime,' possibly from Old English or folk etymology. Historically used as a cure for scurvy due to its vitamin C content.
Brooklime was packed into ships as a scurvy preventative before the word 'vitamin' even existed—sailors depended on it without understanding why, proving that traditional medicine sometimes worked through sheer empirical trial-and-error.
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