SC - Help - Dangerous Herbs
Christine A Seelye-King
mermayde at juno.com
Mon Jul 24 21:05:27 PDT 2000
This may qualify as the world's most expensive way to kill yourself :p
Christianna
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:46:20 -0700 "James F. Johnson" <seumas at mind.net>
writes:
> IIRC, I think saffron was used as an abortificant by nature of it
> brings
> on menses. More of an induced miscarriage. That may also have been
> at
> higher doses than normal consumption, as 10-12 gm of saffron is
> supposedly fatal to humans (Lust, John. _Herb Book_. 1974) My
> source
> for it's use as an abortificant is long lost in a university library
> somewhere during past research on something else.
>
> Seumas
>
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