Rue

Fragrant ruta - a shrub, has a strong aroma, reaches a height of 50-100 cm.

The stem is erect, branched, woody at the base.

Leaves are alternate, elongated-ovate, twice or thrice-perisected, short-leaved (upper sessile), fleshy, bluish-green.

The flowers are small, on short pedicels, greenish-yellow, five-petalled, with ten stamens, collected in a corymbose panicle . It blooms in June - August.

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The fruit is a spherical four-nest box . Seeds are brown, small, 1-1.5 mm long.

The root grass contains essential oil (0.25-1.2%; according to other sources, 0.1-0.15% ^[3] ), vitamin C (156.6 mg%), tannins , furanocoumarins , alkaloids and flavonoid glycoside rutin .

Traces of skimmiamine (0.018%) and cocusaginin were found in the fruits.

The roots contain coumarin , furocoumarins , alkaloids , essential oil ^[4] .

Ruta is bred for the sake of young leaves, which are used as a seasoning for dishes, for sprinkling sandwiches and vinegar (a taste reminiscent of garlic or onions ), and equally as a medicine, for which the plant is cut off just before flowering and then dried. In Central Russia, the root is frozen and bred only as an annual plant. Ruta is sown in early spring on a seed ridge, from where it is transplanted to a permanent ridge. Ruta is propagated by dividing bushes in the spring or by cuttings, cutting and rooting them in hotbeds to plant on ridges in summer.

The plant is poisonous. At the end of summer, the plant juice leaves traces of pigmentation on the skin and severe burns when exposed to sunlight. Self-medication is contraindicated ^[3] .

Guidelines for aromatherapy recommend consuming root oil for head and ear pain, dislocation and rheumatism .

Fragrant rut is used in folk medicine for neurosis , as a tonic, antiseptic , anticonvulsant ^[3] .

In medicine it is used as an antispasmodic . Used to treat insomnia , headache, neurosis , etc.

In Indian traditional medicine , it is used as a stimulant, antiseptic, and abortive drug ^[5] .

• Vvedensky A.I. Genus 843. Ruta - Ruta L. // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1949. - T. 14 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 199-200. - 790 s. - 4000 copies.

• Rue, a plant from the root family // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Ruta graveolens L. Odor odorous // Medicinal herbs and plants
• Makhlayuk V.P. Ruta odorous. Ruta graveotens L. // Medicinal plants in folk medicine.
• Ruta graveolens L. (English) . IPCS Poisons Information Monograph (PIM) 475 . IPCS . Date of treatment March 19, 2014. Archived March 19, 2014.