plant

Rue

Nature

The named Ruta graveolens “herb of grace” of Mediterranean ward and bitterness. Not rosemary as the Lots remembrance leaf, and not a generic apotropaic dump.

Also known as Herb of grace · Ruta graveolens

  • Rue is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists rue (πήγανον) among sharp garden drugs: warming, drawing, and abortive uses in the pharmacological handbook. A named rue in that craft, not a later ‘herb of grace’ charm dump and not rosemary as a neighboring labiate.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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