SC - Spikenard, catnip, costmary and pennyroyal

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/1/00 1:24:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lizek at antioch-college.edu writes:

<< Pennyroyal should be used with caution, esp. by pregnant women. >>

Yes, I am aware of this But thank you for bringing it to my attention again. 
I always recommend posting ingredients list along with my seemingly 
insistence on authenticity. :-) When compared to the quantities used in 
cookery, I would say that the danger of abortion is infinitely more by riding 
in the vehicle to the event than eating the minute amounts used in cookery. 
Be that as it may, you are correct.

I never use pennyroyal in a recipe simply for the fact that if it can be used 
to rid a place oaf insects (fleas for the European version and mosquitos for 
the American version) then it  logically can't be real good for a person. :-) 
However, rather , than substitute other things , since we have NO idea of 
what a medieval person would substitute for pennyroyal, I simply do not use 
recipes that call for this ingredient. Caution on all fronts being the better 
part of valor. ;-)

Ras
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