#ruda

Ruda, Ruta graveolens ​רודה, is one of the most commonly used and venerated plants among Jewish communities.

"As a woman from Bulgaria recalled, "When we were sick, my mother used to perform livianos of lead. Also she used to boil mint, a little rue, a little lemon. All mixed up. She would boil it like a tea, strain it, and give it to us to drink for stomach ache. There we didn't go too much to the doctor, as we do here. Things of the house, they did things to us at home. All the medicines were prepared for different pains. Everything helped" (8).

Learn more about rue and the use of herbs in Judaism.