Furthermore, sowbread, being beaten, and made into little flat cakes, is reputed to be a good amorous medicine, to make one in love.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
sowbread and watercress were both used to make hair grow, and in Leech Book I. there is this prescription:- If a man's hair fall off, work him a salve.
"The Old English Herbals"
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde