Post: #26

(10-20-2014 06:48 PM)spokepoker Wrote:  

(10-19-2014 05:59 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  Furthermore - herbal abortion - fur fuck's sake. Unless you have a special herb with the exact parameters (as far as I know one went extinct in Roman times, since all those wealthy women were using it) - it is a fucking risky thing, since the way it works is by inducing general toxicity. I am big into alternative medicine - but preferably when also supported by Nobel price winners like Linus Pauling and famous leading MDs like Dr. Cathcart - otherwise you are left with mumbo-jumbo and a lot of dangerous or unfounded theories.

A little off topic, but I think the herbal abortion stuff they used in Rome was wolfsbane? I might be wrong though.

In this case Zel is probably referring to Silphium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

It was an incredibly popular plant used extensively in early Roman cooking.