236. Ruta, bisa no molea: i.e. rue; hot and dry in the third degree; if it be frequently drunk, it will comfort the stomach. If it be given to a woman in labour, she will give birth to a baby forthwith. If this herb be taken regularly, it will provoke menstruation, and it will dry the discharge. If the same herb be boiled in honey, it will help with the cough that comes from coldness. When this herb is drunk in wine or in ale, it has the merit of opening the oppilation of the liver and spleen, and of giving relief from arthritis, sciatica, swelling of the womb and intestines, and also from the worms that are parasites "in undutifulness" in the stomach and intestines. If rue and figs be boiled in wine and drunk by people with dropsy, it will