Preserve Pennyroyal!

In an herbal guide from the Middle Ages, women were pictured grinding pennyroyal with a mortar and pestle, a popular abortifacient method dating back to Hippocratic times. In the late 1800s, “pennyroyal pills” were sold by druggists along with other herbal remedies, such as “tansy, rue, roots and seeds of the cotton plant, cedar gum, and camphor”, techniques originally brought from Africa to the United States.”

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