Galega officinalis.   Goat's Rue, French Lilac   Family: Leguminosae  
Rue is Ruta graveolens.
PART USED: Aerial parts, gathered during the flowering period.
ACTIONS
1. Diuretic-[1,2] weak.
2. Hypoglycaemic agent, antidiabetic.
3. Galactogogue.[2]
4. Vermifuge.[2]
INDICATIONS
1. Diabetes mellitus. The response is gradual. Medication must be continued. The dosage can be regulated according to glucose levels in urine.
COMBINATIONS
PREPARATIONS:  3X/day
Dried herb 0.5-2 g or by infusion.
Powdered herb 0.3-1.2 g.[2]
Liquid Extract  1:1 in 25% alcohol  1-2 ml.[1,2]
Tincture  1:10 in 45% alcohol  2-4 ml.[1,2]

ORIGIN: South East Europe.
DESCRIPTION: Grows to 150 cm tall, upright with leaves composed of 6-8 pairs of elongated leaflets. Flowers born on an erect spike, lilac to white elongated papilionate. Pods; cylindrical.
References
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Constituents
References

Galega officinalis extract regulate the diabetes mellitus related violations of proliferation, functions and apoptosis of leukocytes
Mariia Nagalievska, Mariya Sabadashka, Halyna Hachkova and Nataliia Sybirna
Abstract
Background
An impaired leukocytes function is the factor causing the susceptibility of patients with diabetes mellitus to infections. The outmost importance for the understanding of the immunological processes involved in diabetes pathogenesis is to give the characteritics of the immunological profile and changes therein, during the course of desease. Long-used in folk medicine to treat diabetes Galega officinalis L. has been chosen for the correction of the immune system dysfunction.
Methods
The experiments were conducted on male Wistar rats. Fractionation of bone marrow cells suspension was performed in a three-layer ficoll–sodium amidotrizoate density gradient. The lymphocytic-granulocytic cells proliferative activity was studied using enzyme immunoassay with 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU). For staining of bone marrow preparations May-Gruenwald-Romanowsky-Giemsa (Pappenheim) method was used. To evaluate the content of cationic proteins and myeloperoxidase in neutrophilic leukocytes cytochemical studies were performed. Content of tumor necrosis factor alpha was carried out by immuno-enzymatic analysis. Lymphocytes apoptosis was examined by fluorescent analysis using annexin V.
Results
Diabetes mellitus development was accompanied with violation of neutrophils and lymphocytes proliferation, increased activity of myeloperoxidase and enhanced apoptosis process. Administration of Galega officinalis extract under the condition of diabetes promotes the restoration of neutrophils bone marrow pool and the reduction of lymphoblasts number and causes inhibition of the lymphocytes apoptosis process.
Conclusions
Investigated medicine has a pronounced immunocorrective effect under the conditions of diabetes mellitus and can become the basis for creating a new generation of antidiabetic drugs.
BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201818:4
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-017-2079-3© The Author(s). 2018
7Published: 8 January 2018 bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com