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Herbal Fertility Control
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specific information as given below. However, when you have a moment, please review this YouTube item, which relates to the larger issue of human health, sexuality and happiness. It will open you to a whole new world which probably you do not know about. Thanks for looking!
Also of interest: CONFERENCE ON NEW RESEARCH IN ORGONOMY Herbal Fertility Control: Contraception and Abortion An Ancient but Practical Approach for Women Who Want to Take Charge of Their Reproduction and Fertility, and Make Every Child a Wanted, Loved, and Planned-For Child! Updated on 8 March 2007 There is a growing movement of self-determined women, to regain ancient knowledge about botanical herbs once widely used for the control of pregnancy. This knowledge was once widespread, perhaps even global in nature, but was largely wiped out in Western society during the "burning times", when the Christian church began a war against midwives and female healers, murdering millions of people who at that time "lived outside of the Church". While the power of the Christian Church has been dramatically reduced in the Western democratic nations over the centuries, the war against midwives was picked up and continued by the Western medical establishment, which today holds a power and authority position roughly equal to the old priesthood.
Here, we wish to alert all women, and their concerned male partners, about old methods for ending pregnancy in the early stages, mainly for restoring the onset of menstruation where it might be delayed, by use of simple herbal preparations. The materials presented here should be viewed as a guide, a first-step into an ancient body of knowledge, and not as the sole information on how to proceed in the case of an unwanted pregnancy. In addition to what is presented here, the reader is encouraged to also visit the various excellent web sites given below for even more information on the subject. Several excellent books on this subject are also recommended below.
Getting Started... The most concise discussion we have found of the subject of abortive herbs exists in a book by Rina Nissim, Natural Healing in Gynaecology: A Manual for Women (Pandora/Harper-Collins, 1996, currently out of print, but used copies often available from Amazon.com). Her book was originally written in French language, and has been translated all around the world. The English edition does not use the word "abortion" directly to describe specific herbs, possibly due to the more religious nature of American society as compared to Europe, and a natural desire that the book not inflame the substantial anti-abortion groups in the USA. However, the abortive herbs are discussed in the context of emmenagogues, which are substances known to bring on a delayed menstruation. Consequently, the herbs mentioned in her book appear suited only for terminating pregnancy in the very early stages. This means, if a woman is to take this botanical-herbal approach to control her fertility, she must follow her own cycles with some attention, know when to expect her bleeding to start, and have the essential herbs on hand and ready for preparation in advance, in case of a problem. There are herbal methods for producing abortion later in pregnancy, but these are not discussed here, left to the other websites where women are already engaged in serious discussions about what works, and does not work. For now, however, we can recite a few paragraphs from Rina Nissim's book, in a section on "Delayed Periods, 6 to 8 days overdue" (p.30-32).
"Our Experience at the Women's Health Center
Practically speaking
to be used with parsley or blue cohosh or black cohosh
--end quote--
"Group A (choose one): Cotton Root Bark (Gossypium herbacetum)
Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
Group B (choose one): Parsley (Petroselium sativum)
Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)
Black Cohosh (Cimifuga raremosa)
--end quote-- In different dosages, many of these same herbs have a history of use for easing painful menstruation, or for stimulating childbirth. Other herbs used as emmenagogues are mentioned, but without dosages or preparation being discussed. Consult the Nissim book for details.
Where To Get the Herbs These herbs are available from various natural food cooperatives, herbal medicine stores, and mail-order catalogs. Check your telephone book and local area first, as fresh herbs are always better. Ask the people at your local health food store to see what's available. The herbs should be freshly dried, not older than 1 year, and in bulk form. Capsules or pills are less effective and unsuitable for tea preparations. Do Not Use tinctures or essential oils! The danger of overdose is too high, and most essential oils are toxic if ingested. Use only the raw herbs for making the teas!
* Wild Weeds: http://www.wildweeds.com * Mountain Rose Herbs: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com * Other Sources: http://www.sisterzeus.com/herbshoppes.html Some women report that if they feel they might be pregnant, they will start taking Rutin 7 to 10 days before the onset of their period, dose of 500 mg per day (can be found at most health food stores). Rutin is an extract of Rue, a traditional abortifacient used historically all over the world. It works as a "morning after pill" by stimulating adrenaline and prolonging its action within the body, thereby decreasing capillary permeability in the uterine tissues and making them non-nutritive to the fertilized egg. Please consult the following website for more information and cautions about Rutin, which can severely stress the kidneys and liver if used on a regular basis. Rutin is therefore unsuitable as a regular contraceptive except as an emergency measure in case conception has occurred. Also, its essential oil is highly toxic and should never be used internally!
Furthermore, it is important to take into consideration that if the herbs have not worked in your case, for whatever reason, you must follow up with a surgical or pharmaceutical abortion, as the herbs are known to be damaging to the normal growth of the fetus, even if they failed to end the pregnancy! For termination of a confirmed and in-progress pregnancy, consult the above websites or contact the nearest offices of Planned Parenthood or the National Abortion Federation. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the use of RU-486 "abortion pill" in the USA, making this step much easier - but the chemical abortion pill is reported to have side-effects more severe than the herbal methods discussed above. It also can only be administered by physicians, requiring several trips to the physician's office, driving the cost up significantly. The herbal method discussed here costs pennies by comparison. Nevertheless, the legalization of RU-486 provides an important back-up for any woman presently using herbal methods. If you are determined to end a pregnancy, and the herbal methods do not work for you, a pharmaceutical or surgical abortion may be the only final alternative, and become necessary also, as the herbs are known to be disruptive to the normal growth of the fetus. Do not make casual or last-minute decisions about pregnancy, emmenagogues or abortive herbs!
For More Information, read the following materials: This is the best web site on the subject anywhere! Lots of excellent information. Here are some sub-sections: * Preventing and Ending Pregnancy by Alternatives: http://www.sisterzeus.com/PregT.htm * Herbal Abortion: http://www.sisterzeus.com/Abortif.htm * Sharing Our Wisdom: http://www.sisterzeus.com/Sharing.htm * Also here is a website offering straightforward gynecological information:
Highly Recommended, Important Books to Get: * James DeMeo: "Contraceptive Plant Materials Used in Sex-Positive Cultures". This article is contained as a Chapter in the book Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World (Natural Energy Works, Ashland, Oregon, 2006) Saharasia covers a much broader set of topics than merely contraceptive plants, going deep into subject areas such as the historical decline in women's status, the harsh abuse suffered by children and adolescents world-wide, how patriarchal authoritarian societies crush down women and men, with a lot of new findings on the origins of patriarchal authoritarian societies and origins of human violence and war questions. You can also purchase Saharasia from Amazon.com. Amazon obtains the book from us, so there is no advantage in time, and they will also charge a slightly higher price ($39 as compared to our $34). However, for destinations outside the USA, they often can offer a much better shipping rate. Be aware, if you purchase a used copy from them, it will probably be the first edition, and lack the additions and revisions of the second edition. Most of those 2nd Edition changes are identified and can be obtained as PDF downloads from this webpage. * Herbal Contraception and Abortion in Sex-Positive
Cultures: Selected Reprints. Includes reprints of 16 different
published and unpublished Scholarly Articles from old anthropology, ethnobotany
and pharmacology journals on the subject, clearly demonstrating that so-called
"primitive" peoples had known how to control their fertility long before
Western science. Also includes information on other books and web
sites giving explicit details on herbal abortion methods. This information
once brought a death-sentence by burning! c.250pp. $28.
Bound xerox.
* Natural Healing in Gynaecology: A Manual
for Women, Rina Nissim, Harper/Collins, 1996. An essential
reference book giving women the power of choice in their own healing and
reproduction. Covers the limits of modern allopathic medicine, contrasting
them to healing alternatives from both Western and Eastern cultures.
The author was a founder of the Dispensaire des Femmes, a women's
health centre collective in Geneva, Switzerland, and has worked with women
and health groups in the USA, Central America and India. 234 pp.
Nissim 1996 1986 Softcover 1986 Hardcover French Ed. A German-language edition is also available from Amazon.de Use their book-search feature to look for all titles by "Rina Nissim", and also for this title: Naturheilkunde in der Gynaekologie
Other Published Resources: * "Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times", J. Riddle & J.W. Estes, American Scientist, 80:226-233, May-June, 1992. * "Ever Since Eve: Birth Control in the Ancient World", J. Riddle, J.W.
Estes & J.C. Russell, Archaeology, March/April 1994, pp.29-35.
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