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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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rue
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synonyms: Ruta graveolens, herb-of-grace ???
tags: [Rx] [botany]
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Definition:a plant formerly used for medicinal purposes:"It sharpens the eyesight and dissipates flatulence. It augments the sperm and dampens the desire for coitus."---a small yellow flower that grows in the Meadow.Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games (2008)
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Uses:
Properties of rue:
Nature: Warm and dry in the third degree.
Optimum: That which is grown near a fig tree.
Usefulness: It sharpens the eyesight and dissipates flatulence.
Dangers: It augments the sperm and dampens the desire for coitus.
Neutralization of the Dangers: With foods that multiply the sperm.
Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Tacuinum Sanitatis, a medieval handbook on wellness (eleventh century AD)
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LAERTES. A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
OPHELIA. There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue for you; and here's some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say he made a good end.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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He rubbed the flesh just above the leather cuff that attached the peg to his stump.
“Have you tried rubbing it with Balm of Gilead?” I asked. “Water-pepper or stewed rue might help too.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco.
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