Ruta chalepensis, Arootha, Sathappu, Nagathali, Garden rue, അരൂത, ശതാപ്പൂ, നാഗത്താലി

Family: Rutaceae
Vernacular names: Arootha, Sathappu, Nagathali, അരൂത, ശതാപ്പൂ, നാഗത്താലി (Malayalam), Garden rue (English), Gucchapatra (Sanskrit), Sadab (Hindi), Pillaivalathi (Tamil)
Distribution: Mediterranean regions, Atlantic Islands and South Europe
Description: Sub-shrubs. Leaves alternate, pyramidal or oblong, leaflets subsessile, obovate or elliptic. Inflorescences dichasial. Flowers yellow. Capsules 4 or 5 lobed, 1 or 2 seeded; seeds angled, pitted and brown.
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Cultivated
Flowering & Fruiting: January-August

Parts used: Whole plant
Properties & Uses: Stimulant, irritant, abortifacient, and acro-narcotic poison. Dried leaves are used to treat catarrh, dyspepsia, paralysis and also treating in hysteria, amenorrhea and epilepsy. Juice of herb is used to treat earache, headache and rheumatic pain.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani, Homeo,
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