The following plants are not recommended during pregnancy:
Hot pepper (Capsicum) contains essential oils, stimulating uterine contractions;
Origanum (Mentha pulegium) contains essential oils, stimulating uterine contractions, emmenagogue;
The following plants may be used by pregnant women, prudently:
Angel (Angelica aschangelica) roots;
Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) seeds;
Bur (Arctium lappa) roots;
PREGNANCY
Young girls when they reach puberty, have many egg-cells in their ovaries. Monthly the ovaries eliminate one egg-cell, moving from the uterine trunk to the uterus, the place of growth of the fetus, after the fertilization of the egg-cell by the seaman of […]