[Sca-cooks] Re: Bad Joke was Harmless Food

[Erika Thomenius]

>It's kinda interesting. I would stay away from Rue on general principles,
>but one of the books that I came across about controlling fertility,
>_Regulating menstruation :  beliefs, practices, interpretations_ edited by
>Van de Walle and Renne, included an article which analyzed the effects of
>various traditional abortifacents, and found that rue and pennyroyal herbs
>were not significantly effective but that oil of rue and oil of pennyroyal
>(the 19th century abortifacents) did have some small effect.  I believe
>the article in question (I'm looking at the OCLC record for the books) is
>"Pharmacological properties of emmenagogues: a biomedical view" by
>Stefania Siedlecky

So what you're saying here is that I'll rue the day I put rue in the roux?

:)

(Sorry.  The devil made me do it.)

-Gytha "Lighting fuse, heading for the rock" Karlsdotter

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