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Rue
Its taste is bitter and pungent, and the leaves so acrid as to blister
the skin. It is a very powerful medicinal agent, and must be employed with caution. It is tonic, stimulant, antispasmodic,
and an emmenagogue, owing its power to the essential oil of the leaves. Rue is much used in hysteria and nervous complaints,
also for flatulent colic. A strong infusion as a clyster is found useful in the convulsions of children. The plant
is too powerful to be generally used in family practice.
[Thomas Stuart McFarland, a farmer
near Belgrade, Newton County, in southeast Texas, reported that he had rue in his garden as of April 18, 1839.]
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