Italian: route, rua, aruga land on water, erba ruga, ricola, arruda
English: rue, wine rue, herb-of-grace.
Dutch: wijnrui
German: Raute, WinRaute, Edelraute, Gartenraute
Introduction: The main use of the Robust one is for treating problems in stomach. Also it is used to alleviate the pain ear or against nervous diseases, vertigos, gripa, cough, arthritis, várices, minor wounds, reumatismo and drop. He is equally useful for ulcers, sores, washes buccal and like lotion for the hairy leather. One says, in addition, that one is used to regulate the menstrual cólicos, to help in the childbirth and to stimulate the production milk. It stops most of the cases takes a tea from 1as leaves two or three times to the day. The use of the Robust data from century XVI, was used to mitigate the fever, backache and chest and inflammation of throat.
Herbaceous perennial of 50-90 cm. of height, with round stems and bluish green foliage. Their leaves are alternating and their flowers are in terminal tops of yellow color, produce fruits in form of drupa. It is of European origin and it lives in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. Room is cultivated in houses and is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, perennifolia, scrub xerófilo, forests of encino and compound of pine.
DESCRIPTION: Sufruticosa plant, vivaz, rizomatosa, that all the springs throws numerous raised new piston rods, smooth, lampiños, of 30-90 cm of height, and up to 150, that lignifica little by little in the base. Alternating, long fleshy leaves, pecioladas, lampiñas,; the inferior ones, pinnatipartidas; superior, simple, the sésiles ones or barely pecioladas; green-grayish all, glaucas or, seeding of glandulosos small points. Yellow-greenish flowers, of 1,5-2 cm, in terminal corimbos, of 4 petals (except the one of the center of ramillete that has 5) concave and crossed, with brief dientecitos in the edges. Fruit in cleared capsule, with five lobes coming from the central flower, with four the remaining capsules. Graft Rizoma and ligneous roots. All the plant dismisses a scent serious, unmistakable, because of the essence that contains all their parts; in the leaves, in the sépalos and the petals. The flavor of the robust one is slightly agripicante, but it is left mask by the intensity of his scent.
The Citrus sort, with representatives so known as naranjo or the lemon tree belongs to the same family.
The Route chalepensis L. is a very similar species, that is distinguished of previous in which the petals present/display numerous and fine marginal divisions or lacinias.
HABITAT And DISTRIBUTION
Uncultivated, edges of ways, rocky crags, cliffs, dry pedregales, walls, hills, old rocks, walls, barren cols.
She is original of southern, Mediterranean Europe, Eurasia and the Canary Islands, and has a cosmopolitan distribution, extending by the Southeast of Europe, North Africa, Mediterranean regions and temper-warm zones.
Altitude: 0 1,100 ms.
Climate: Heliófila is a plant, that cria to total sun, although also tolerates the semishade. It prefers dry, rocky and sheltered situations. He is resistant to the frosts, tolerating even
-15 ºC.
Ground: It grows in limestone or silíceos grounds, with some preference at these last ones. In any case, warm, or drained, dry, onerous or stony, light, permeable, thin a ground. The compact argillaceous grounds do not agree to him.
Culture
One propagates by stakes of the stems and grows of perennial land form of relative fertility, which makes the frequent harvests possible of the foliage.
FLOWERING And FRUITION
It blooms of May to September, more intensely in June-August.
USED PART MEDICINALLY
The leaves and also the immature fruit
COMPOSITION
It contains in all its parts, essential oil (0,7-1,5 %) which it contains tens of components, main of which he is metilnonilcetona CH3COC9H19, that represent 75 %. is mixed with variable amounts of metilheptilcetona CH3COC7H, fenol (synonymous of antiseptic fénico acid C6HÖH) and other substances (ketones, alcohol, esters, terpenos) and cumarinas and their derivatives; in addition, flavonoides, among them the flavonglucósido routine or rutósido, that is the P vitamin, of formula C27H30O 16 + 3 HÒ, that a called ferment ramnodiasta disturbs in quercetina and ramnosa, and this, finally in glucose and ramnosa; a bitter principle, draws resin from, rubber, tannin of effects astringents, vitamin C, alkaloids.
INDICATIONS:
Attributed properties
Emenagogo, vermifugal, tranquilizer, antispasmodic, abortion and diurética. It is used in the treatment of disorders of the independent nervous system. It stimulates the sanguineous flow towards the digestive organs and smooth muscles in general. It increases the resistance of the sanguineous capillaries.
Painful, varices rules, edemas and dermatological problems of venous return, problems.
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
Warnings
It has verified effects abortion and mutagénico. The essential oil is extremely irritating for the skin and mucous. G of the dry dust per day is considered poisonous in 2 greater doses of.
It is toxic plant. Its essential oil can cause the abortion due to metilnolil-ketone, in addition to vomits, excessive diarreas and menstruations. In addition the people who undergo affections or ailments in the kidneys must abstain from this plant or in infusion, cofoundations, dyes or essential oil. Much precaution during the flowering since it can cause serious allergies. Not to approach it the nose.
Other uses
The essential oil is of utility in perfumería. In small amounts, like saborizante of nourishing specialties. In zones of Europe the leaves are mixed with cognac to produce a digestive licor.
INTEREST NOTES
Arbustiva and perennial plant of disagreeable and intense scent that with so single touching it or clearing it persists in the skin or the clothes.
Original of southern Europe
The word Route derives from Greek reuo, whose meaning is to "salvar, to release, proteger"
Hipócrates recommended it to contraveneno way as Mitrídates Eupador did.
The Greeks granted powers against witches and spells to him.
In order to cause or to facilitate the menstruation, the Dr Leclerc recommends the infusion of robust, that is prepared with 1 gr.. of leaves by boiling water cup, from which 2 cups to the day can be taken. If instead of the fresh leaves droughts are used, póngase only 0.5 gr. by cup. And one does not go of here in the homemade use of this plant. The other faculties of the robust one, the routine and the essence, have to use them exclusively the facultative one.
Bibliographical references
Sources, V. ET al.: Referred medicinal plants of popular use like toxic. Bulletin of reviews. Medicinal plants 19:37,1988.
Kong, And C. ET al.: Antifertility principle of Route graveolens. Medica Plants 55(2): 176-178,1989.
Roig, J. T.: Medicinal, aromatic or poisonous plants of Cuba. Havana. Ed. Cienti'fico-Te'cnica, 1988. P. 1125.
Sanhueza, M.: Farmacognóstico study of Route graveolens. Diploma thesis. Inst. of Farm and Alimento. Havana, 1991.
Schimer, Or ET al.: Mutagenic compounds in an extract from Rutae herbs II. Mutat-Res 243(1): 57-62,1990.
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