Treasure Dittany!

Pliney the Elder, a Roman philosopher from the 1st century, wrote about the abortifacient effects of dittany, an herb from the mint family: it was “so powerful that it shall not be in a room with a pregnant woman.” One recipe from a Hippocratic document listed a drink of dittany, leak juice, and a large shell of oil of bitter almonds.

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