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Rue garden (rue fragrant, rue odorous). Legends, myths, symbolism, description, cultivation, methods of application

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1. Photos, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
2. Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
3. Botanical description, reference data, useful information, illustrations
4. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology
5. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Garden rue (rue fragrant, odorous rue), Ruta hortensis. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

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Family: Rutaceae (rue)

Origin: Southern Europe and Mediterranean

Area: Garden rue is common in Europe, Asia and North Africa.

Chemical composition: Garden rue contains essential oil, cumene, limonene, furfural, alkaloids rutacoside, rutagratin, rutidine, etc.

Economic value: Rue garden is used as a spice and medicinal plant. Rue oil is used in perfumery and cosmetics. It is also prescribed in traditional medicine for the treatment of nervous disorders, rheumatism and other diseases. However, the consumption of the plant in large doses can be poisonous.

Legends, myths, symbolism: In antiquity, rue was a symbol of life and immortality, and was considered the plant of Apollo. She was also associated with the goddess of wisdom, Athena, and was used in her cult. Ruta was also associated with the goddess Kirka, who helped in the expulsion of evil spirits and protection from corruption. In medieval Europe, rue was used to make amulets and talismans, which were used in protection from evil spirits and black magic. Rue was also used to add flavor and aroma to beer.

Garden rue (rue fragrant, odorous rue), Ruta hortensis. Description, illustrations of the plant

Garden rue, Ruta hortensis Mill. Botanical description, distribution, chemical composition, features of use

The rue family is Rutaceae.

Perennial plant, glabrous, bluish or bluish, more or less woody at the base, 20-50 cm high.

The lower and middle leaves are long-petiolate, triangular-ovate in outline, twice or thrice pinnately dissected into splayed, almost entire segments; marginally narrowly incurved, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, first-order segments on long petioles, others sessile; the uppermost leaves are sessile, pinnately dissected, with narrower segments.

The flowers are yellow. Inflorescence loose, corymbose. The fruit is a capsule with blunt nests.

Blooms in June - July. The fruits ripen in August.

Grows on dry stony and gravelly slopes, among bushes.

Mediterranean look. It is found in southern Europe and the Crimea.

The leaves and apical shoots of rue contain an essential oil (0,25-1,2%), which includes cineol, pinene, L-limonene, methylparanonylcarbinol, methylparaheptylcarbinol.

Essential oil of rue has a strong smell and bitter taste, it has no perfume value. The plant contains the flavonoid rutin, which has P-vitamin activity, coumarin, furocoumarins (bergapten, psoralen, etc.), organic acids (malic acid, etc.), alkaloids with a quinoline ring (gamma-fagorin, graveolin, rutamine), acridane alkaloid arborinine and others, acridine compound acronicin, bitter and tannins.

Traces of skimmialin and cocusaginin were found in the fruits; in the roots - coumarins, more than 10 furocoumarins (bergapten, psoralen, xanthotoxin, etc.), alkaloids (rutacridin, dintamine, etc.), a lignan derivative - savinin (hibalactone).

Fresh and dried roots contain 0,06% green essential oil with blue fluorescence under UV light. Azulene and ketones were found in the composition of the oil. A fresh plant has a strong unpleasant odor, a dry plant acquires a pleasant delicate aroma of a rose.

An overdose of raw materials should not be allowed, as the plant has toxic properties.

Rue leaves have a bitter spicy spicy taste and a spicy aromatic smell. Its leaves are added in small quantities to canned cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetables. Ruta imparts a more pleasant and subtle flavor to stuffings, stews, mixed salads and vegetable dishes. Lamb and cheese dishes acquire a special flavor with it.

Rue leaves flavor tea, vinegar, fruit and vegetable cocktails.

In small quantities, rue is also added to sauces, mushroom and egg dishes. Small amounts of rue added to various dishes help to improve digestion, secretion of gastric juice and improve appetite.

Essential oil of rue is used in some countries in the production of cognac and other drinks. In the pharmaceutical industry of some countries, rue is used in the production of aromatic water, medicinal fees. Currently, it is used in medicine in many countries of the world.

The plant was a source of rutin for medicinal purposes until the discovery of richer sources of this substance (buckwheat and Japanese Sophora). Rutin is recommended for the prevention and treatment of hypo- and avitaminosis P and diseases accompanied by impaired vascular permeability.

In Bulgarian medicine, the plant is used for inflammation of the eyelids, tension and spasms of the accommodative muscle of the eye, algomenorrhea, spasms of smooth muscles on nervous grounds, as a sedative for neuroses. In Indian medicine, rue is used internally as a tonic, for the treatment of impotence and as an antiseptic, externally for the treatment of ozena (chronic rhinitis), scabies, as a wound healing agent, for rheumatism, rickets, and allergies.

Used in homeopathy.

In folk medicine, the aerial part of the plant was used as an antispasmodic, for migraine, pneumonia, rheumatism, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, gastric colitis, tachycardia, as an antitussive, for atherosclerosis, hypertension, hysteria, epilepsy, thrombophlebitis, hemorrhoids, as an antihelminthic, as an appetite stimulant, as a carminative and for bronchial asthma, uterine bleeding, delayed menstruation.

The aerial part of the plant has a fungistatic effect. With prolonged contact with a fresh plant, it can cause dermatitis, proceeding as burns.

Internal use requires caution and strict dosage.

According to popular beliefs, snakes do not crawl near the places where it grows, flies die from its smell. Yellow paint is highlighted from the flowers.

Methylnonylketone and methylheptylketone from rue essential oil can serve as raw materials for the synthesis of aromatic substances used in perfumery.

Authors: Dudchenko L.G., Kozyakov A.S., Krivenko V.V.

Ruta, Ruta graveolens L. Classification, synonyms, botanical description, nutritional value, cultivation

Synonym - Ruta hortensis Mill.

German names. Wein-oder Gartenraute, Edelraute; Goal. wijnruit; Swede, vinruta; English garden rue, rue; fr. rue, rue aodeur forte; it. ruta; Spanish ruda; hung. illatosruta; Slovenian rutica vinska; Serb, runda, sedev; Polish ruta ogrodova.

Perennial, completely naked, dove-gray plant; stems at the base woody and branched, as in the inflorescence, 20-50 cm in height; the lower and middle leaves are long-petiolate, obtuse-ovate, twice or thrice pinnately dissected into segments.

Inflorescence corymbose, loose; bracts linear, sepals triangular, very acute, 2-2,5 mm long; petals suddenly narrowed into a nail, entire or finely dentate, mostly curly along the edge, 6-9 mm long; box with blunt sockets, 5-7 mm wide. It grows wild in the Crimea.

Young leaves are used like watercress. The taste is somewhere between onion and garlic. In Eastern Europe it winters in the ground, but not particularly reliably.

Propagated by seeds and cuttings. Sowing seeds is done directly in open ground in early spring or first in a greenhouse, from where seedlings are planted in open ground at a distance of about 25 cm between plants.

Adult plants can be propagated by both dividing them and cuttings. To do this, in the spring, cuttings are cut and rooted in a greenhouse, then planted in open ground.

Author Ipatiev A.N.

Garden rue (rue fragrant, odorous rue), Ruta hortensis. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology

Ethnoscience:

• Treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines: to prepare an infusion from garden rue, you need to take 1 teaspoon of dried rue leaves, pour 250 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Drink 50 ml of infusion before meals 2-3 times a day.
• Migraine treatment: to prepare an infusion from garden rue, you need to take 1 teaspoon of dried rue leaves, pour 250 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Drink 50 ml of infusion at the first sign of a migraine.
• Treatment of respiratory diseases: to prepare an infusion from garden rue, you need to take 1 teaspoon of dried rue leaves, pour 250 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of honey to the infusion and drink 50 ml of infusion 3 times a day.
• Headache treatment: to prepare an infusion from garden rue, you need to take 1 teaspoon of dried rue leaves, pour 250 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Drink 50 ml of infusion at the first sign of a headache.

Cosmetology:

• Face tonic: to prepare a tonic, you need to take 2 tablespoons of fresh rue leaves, pour 250 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of chamomile decoction and 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to the infusion. Apply toner to face morning and evening.
• Massage oil: to prepare the oil, you need to take 2 tablespoons of rue oil, 2 tablespoons of jojoba oil and a few drops of lavender essential oil. Mix all ingredients together and use for body massage.
• Mask for the face: to prepare the mask, you need to take 2 tablespoons of fresh rue leaves, 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of oatmeal. Mix all ingredients together and apply on face for 10-15 minutes. Wash off with warm water.
• Shampoo: to prepare shampoo, you need to take 2 tablespoons of dried rue leaves, pour 500 ml of boiling water and insist for 30 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of burdock oil to the infusion and use to wash your hair.

Attention! Before use, consult with a specialist!

Garden rue (rue fragrant, odorous rue), Ruta hortensis. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Rue (Ruta hortensis), also known as sweet rue or odorous rue, is an ornamental and medicinal plant used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments.

Tips for growing, harvesting and storing garden rue:

Cultivation:

• Rue garden prefers sunny places and fertile, well-drained soils with neutral or slightly alkaline acidity.
• It is recommended to plant rue in spring or autumn.
• The distance between plants should be approximately 30-40 cm.
• Water plants sparingly, avoiding waterlogged soil to avoid root rot.
• Rue can be susceptible to disease, so keep your plants healthy and remove diseased or wilted parts.

Workpiece:

• The leaves and flowers of garden rue are harvested during the flowering period, usually June-August.
• Choose leaves and flowers that are in the best condition.
• To dry the leaves and flowers of garden rue, they can be placed on paper towels in a cool, dry place.
• Leaves and flowers should dry out in 2-3 days.
• To preserve the integrity of leaves and flowers, it is better to pick them by hand, without using sharp tools.

Storage:

• Dry leaves and flowers of garden rue should be stored in a dry, cool place in a hermetically sealed container.
• Before use, check that the leaves and flowers retain their aroma and color.
• Use leaves and flowers within 6 months of harvest.

It should be remembered that garden rue contains substances that can cause irritation of the skin and mucous membranes, so gloves should be used and contact with the plant should be avoided during collection and processing. The use of garden rue in large quantities can be dangerous and lead to poisoning, so you should use it only for its intended purpose and in accordance with the recommendations of specialists.

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