Rue

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0338An index name, “Rue”: the 1850 index lists it, and the book has no entry under that name

Open in the Concordance

Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

⚠ Poisonous · All partsGarden rue. EFSA records a death when it was taken to end a pregnancy; such cases in Uruguay led to organ failure and deaths. The juice burns skin in sunlight.EFSA: 1,8-cineole, 2-nonanone, 2-undecanone and 7 more

What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

  1. Poison (to expel)CLM-0023911850 index, pp. 244, 337

    Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

    Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.