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Cultivation, useful properties and recipes for the use of fragrant rue
Botanical characteristics of rue
Rue is a perennial, fragrant and strong plant. The stems of the plant are erect, branched and bare, growing no higher than half a meter. On the low stems of the rue are the next leaves, which have translucent glands containing essential oil. Rue flowers have linear bracts. The flowers are bisexual, which are collected in inflorescences – panicles. Sepals are triangular in shape with translucent glands. The petals of the plant are free, boat-shaped, yellow in color, which are attached to the glandular disc. The flower has about 10 stamens. The fruit of the rue is a spherical box with seeds. Seeds are black, viable for 5 years. The fruit of the rue ripens in the month of September.
Ruta is rarely seen in the wild. It is grown in the Mediterranean, Moldova, the Caucasus, Belarus and the Baltic states.
Cultivation of fragrant rue
Ruta prefers to grow on gravelly, loamy or calcareous soils. The plant is drought tolerant. The plant does not like excess moisture in the soil. Rue is not a whimsical plant, since it does not need special conditions for growing, and it can grow in one place for about 5 years, giving a good harvest.
Rue can be propagated by seeds. To do this, you need to collect the seeds and sow them for the winter, as they will sprout only after 5 months from the date of planting. You can plant the seeds in boxes for seedlings. To do this, you need to prepare boxes with soil and sow seeds in them in the month of March. After 1 week shoots will appear. When the frosts pass, you can land in a permanent place. Plants can be repotted if desired.
Throughout the year, seedlings will not grow above 12 cm. Before winter, seedlings are covered so that they do not freeze. In the spring, they remove the shelter from the seedlings and remove dead and frozen branches from the plants. After pruning bad branches, the soil is fed with nitrogen fertilizer.
Useful properties of rue
Ruta has many useful properties that are used in the treatment of various diseases and ailments. It has a diuretic, carminative, and choleretic effect. It can be treated with ozena, stomach cramps. Due to the content of volatile oils and flavone glycoside in the rue, it is used in the treatment of beriberi, atherosclerosis, dizziness. Ruta is used as a good tonic for impotence. Preparations from rue help in the treatment of pustules, boils, allergies, rickets and scabies. Ruta can be used for rickets or rheumatism. From the leaves of the plant, preparations are made that are used for intestinal atony and colic.
Ruta has anti-inflammatory properties that help reduce headaches, convulsions in children, and as an antidote for snake bites. Rue is used for the preparation of fees used for depletion of the body and insanity.
Ruta can be used not only internally, but also externally. Outwardly, it has a calming effect. Women use rue in menopause. Lotions from the rue will be used in the treatment of bruises, paralysis of the facial nerve. People suffering from rickets and scrofula can take a decoction of rue in the form of baths.
The use of fragrant rue
Traditional medicine uses fragrant rue most often as an antihelminthic, and a remedy that reduces pain in the head, rheumatic pains and neuralgic. Ruta is a constituent component included in fees for the treatment of diseases of the liver, heart, gallstones, colds and coughs.
Ruta is used in the form of teas, collections, infusions, tinctures and externally. Rue infusion helps with abscesses. Ruta increases appetite, relieves migraines. An infusion of rue can be used to wash the eyes in the treatment of conjunctivitis. Ruta has a good effect on frequent urination, dropsy and skin eruptions. Rue herb is used for impotence, fragility of blood vessels, rickets and myopia.
Rue tincture for varicose veins. Take 2 tablespoons of rue herb and pour it into a glass jar, pour 200 ml of vodka and leave to infuse for 10 days in the dark. After straining the finished tincture, you can apply 10 drops, which are diluted with 1 tablespoon of water. You need to take the tincture three times a day.
Rue tea. To prepare it, pour 1 teaspoon of rue herb into 250 ml of boiling water and leave for 5 minutes. Strain and take 2 cups twice a day.
A decoction of rue for beriberi. Take 1 gram of rue leaves, 2 grams of violet (herb) and 2 grams of elder flowers. 1 tablespoon of this collection is poured into 200 ml of boiling water and boiled for 1 minute. After straining the broth, it is taken 100 ml 2 times a day.
Rue ointment. Her prepared as follows: we take fresh rue grass, and rub it. The finished ointment is applied to bruises or purulent wounds until completely cured.
Rue contraindications
You can not take large doses of drugs from the rue, because although it has many useful properties, it is poisonous. It is contraindicated for pregnant women, as it may cause redness or burns.