Rue Seasoning
Rue is only mentioned once in the Bible as a tithe used by the Pharisees. According to Pliny the Great there are many medicinal used for Rue.
Jesus proclaimed an exclamation of grief regarding the Pharisees. That they would tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs. Rue was a garden herb. They ignored the judgments and the love of the LORD God. These they should have done yet they left undone the others. (Luke 11:42).
Rue is also a medicinal plant, and has been prescribed to calm spasms. It has a powerful scent, and is used as a stimulant. According to Pliny the Great if it is given in large doses, this juice has all the destructive, poisonous, or fatal effects of poison. The juice of hemlock has the property of neutralizing its effects. Thus do we find one thing acting as the poison of another poison, for the juice of hemlock is very beneficial, rubbed upon the hands and [face] of persons employed in gathering rue. Rue is one of the principal ingredients employed in antidotes. When the leaves are bruised and taken in wine. It is in cases of poisoning by wolf’s bane and mistletoe, as well as by fungi, whether administered in the drink or the food. Rue is good, too, for the injuries by scorpions and spiders, the stings of bees, hornets, and wasps, the noxious effects produced by cantharides and salamanders, and the bites of mad dogs. It is said that people rubbed with the juice of rue, or even having it on their person, are never attacked by these noxious creatures, and that serpents are driven away by the stench of burning rue. The most desired effect is the root of wild rue. This plant has the effect also of dispersing in the natural raw state; raw, flatulency, and inveterate pains of the stomach; it opens the uterus, too, and restores it when displaced; for which purpose it is applied as a liniment, with honey, to the whole of the abdomen and chest. Mixed with figs, and boiled down to one half, it is administered in wine for dropsy; and it is taken in a similar manner for pains of the chest, sides, and loins, as well as for coughs, asthma, and affections of the lungs, liver, and kidneys, and for shivering fits. Applied topically, with honey and alum, it cures itch-scabs, and leprous sores. (Pliny the Elder. 1855. ppg.4252-56).
Reference:
Pliny the Elder. (1855).The Natural History, ed. John Bostock. Medford, MA: Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
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