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  2. Abortifacient - Wikipedia

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    During the American slavery period, 18th and 19th centuries, cotton root bark was used in folk remedies to induce a miscarriage. [38] In the late 19th century, women in the UK and US increasingly ingested lead to abort pregnancies, sometimes in the form of pills made of diachylon or lead plaster. It would often cause the women to become ill and ...

  3. List of herbs with known adverse effects - Wikipedia

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    Uterotonic properties, [5] nausea vomiting, and diarrhea, [12] contraindicated for pregnancy and breast feeding [12] Buckthorn bark and berry alder buckthorn Rhamnus frangula "abdominal pain, diarrhea, potentially carcinogenic, with others can potentiate cardiac glycosides and antiarrhythmic agents" [3] Cascara sagrada bark bearberry Rhamnus ...

  4. Self-induced abortion - Wikipedia

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    Soviet poster circa 1925. Title translation: "Abortions induced by either self-taught midwives or obstetricians not only maim the woman, they also often lead to death". A self-induced abortion (also called a self-managed abortion, or sometimes a self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself, or with the help of other, non-medical assistance.

  5. History of abortion - Wikipedia

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    Some of the herbs used at times to terminate pregnancy are poisonous. A list of plants which cause abortion was provided in De viribus herbarum, an 11th-century herbal written in the form of a poem, the authorship of which is incorrectly attributed to Aemilius Macer.

  6. Toxic abortion - Wikipedia

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    Toxic abortion is a medical phenomenon of spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth caused by toxins in the environment of the mother during pregnancy, especially as caused by toxic environmental pollutants, though sometimes reported as caused by naturally occurring plant toxins [1] [2]

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  8. Female fertility agents - Wikipedia

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    The following will cover the advancements of female fertility agents, major causes of female infertility. Next, it emphasizes on common female fertility agents in terms of their mechanism of action, side effects, fetal consideration and clinical application and ended up by the introduction of supplements and herbal medicines for female infertility.

  9. Millions of Americans Might Be Damaging Their Livers Using ...

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    Herbal supplements have become incredibly popular over the last few years, thanks partly to people promoting them on TikTok. However, disturbing new research finds that several popular ones could ...