The Chemical Benefits and Pharmaceutical Advantages of Common Rue

Four major classes of substances that can be found in aerial parts of rue are alkaloids of quinoline, quinolinone, furoquinoline, pyranoquinoline, and acridone, flavonoids like rutin, essential oil such as 2-nonanone, 2-nonylacetate, 2-undecyl acetate, and coumarins like coumarin, dicoumarins, furanocoumarins, pyranocoumarins and coumarin-naphtochinone-compounds. Most of its aromatic and medicinal properties are from its rutin, methylnonilctone and essential oil. It has been used in folk medicines as a stimulant, abortifacient, antiseptic, antispasmodic, anthelmintic, antirheumatic, antiepileptic, and appropriate because of its pharmacological traits such as antimicrobial, antidepressant, antihyperlipedimic, antihyperglycemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-cancer, antiandrogenic, insect repellent and larvicidal.