Posted by Racer on August 11, 2004, at 11:50:35
No, not how to use it as a medicinal herb.
I love Rue for it's foliage, but have trouble growing it outside where we live now. I'd put some in a pot inside, except that we have an infestation of cats and I'm concerned that they'd get into it, eat it, and I'm not sure how dangerous it might be for them. (OK, so the infestation is really two aging pussycats, but I'm still concerned about their safety.)
Can anyone tell me anything about how dangerous rue is to cats? Of the two cats who live here now, one is both elderly and basically non-destructive, but the other still seems to get into the weirdest things. The older cat only really eats foodstuffs -- whatever he can get his mouth around, it seems -- but the other had been known to chew up things like yarn, the thread on the sewing machine, the cords from the telephone headset, etc. She usually only seems to go for thread-like things, but I don't trust her not to go for a houseplant if there was one available to her. (That's why we don't have any houseplants right now...)
Thank you very much for any answers or suggestions or informational links.
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