In Peru is used very often as a tool for calling out abundance, luck and as a protection agains ill wish.
Colonia de Ruda is being made from Rue herb. This herb was used in the ancient Egypt for its magical skills. It is suitable for places of healing and meditation and for its ability to "call out money" is being used also in the shops. It is also used during deeper meditations. The peruan people, who spiritualy work or on their spiritual journey, they take a bath in water with leafes of rue herb to clean inconvenient energies. After this kind of bath people usually have very strange dreams.