SC - Re: Help - Dangerous Herbs
ChannonM at aol.com
ChannonM at aol.com
Tue Jul 25 05:36:31 PDT 2000
In a message dated 7/25/00 3:26:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
> seumas at mind.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - Help - Dangerous Herbs
>
> 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
Specifically regarding saffron......
When buying some in quantity from a herbal shop, the shop keeper enquired
what I was going to do with it and in what quantity. He wanted to know
because saffron contains arsenic and in large doses is deadly. He even showed
me a vial he had with a liquid that helped to extract the arsenic (can't
remember what it was, either alcohol based or something similar) and the
arsenic was floating on top, a white substance. He was very serious.
Now, what he was going to do with the arsenic I know.................
I imagine arsenic can be used for healthful reasons in the right
circumstances.
Hauviette
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