r74 New. Principles. of Gardening. 
To give a Defcription of Garden Rue is needlefs, it being 
fo well known. | 
The wild Rue is very like the Garden Rue in Stalks, Leaves, 
Flowers, Colour, Tafte and Savour, but much lefs;. it being 
an Annual, dies every Winter. 
2. The Temperature. 2 
Garden Rue is hot and dry in the latter end of the third De- 
gree; and is of thin and fubtile Parts; wild Rue is hot and 
dry in the fourth Degree. 
, 3. The Medicinal Virtues... 
Garden Rue being taken, breaks and confumes Wind, di- 
gefts all grofs and tough Humours, and provokes Urine. Be- 
ing boiled in Vinegar and drank, is very good againft Gripes, 
Stitches of the Side and Cheft, Shortness of Breath upon a cold 
Caufe, and Pains in the Joints. 
The young Shoots being boiled, or rather fcalded and kept 
ina Pickle, and eaten, are avery great help to the Sight, whereof 
is written ie Huste bug bas a2 bei 
Nobilis ef? ruta, quia lumina reddit acuta ; 
Auxilio rute, vir lippe videbis acute. 
The Juice of Rue made hot in a Pomegranate Rind, and 
dropp’d into the Ear, takes away the Pain inftantly. The 
“Leaves of Rue, beaten and drank with Wine, are an Anti- 
dote againft Poifons. 
The Leaves of Rue eaten with the Kernels of Walnuts or 
Figs ftamped together and made into a Pafte, are very good 
againft all infectious Airs, Peftilence, Plague, Poifon, ¢&c. 
Rue boil’d with D7//, Fennel Seed, and fome Sugar in Wine, 
and drank, affwages the Torments of the Belly, as Gripings, ge, 
the Pains in the Sides and Breaft, helps thofe that are fhort 
winded, or breathe with great Difficulty, is very good againft a 
Cough, and ftopping of the Lungs, and very much helps thofe 
that are inclining to the Dropfie. ai. 
WN. B. That Rue ufed very often in Meat or Drink drieth 
up the natural Seed of Generation, as alfo the Milk of thofe 
that give fuck, 
ag N. B. Ruta 
