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• Yet, he warns, " As little as two tablespoons of pennyroyal oil can be fatal.
• The cause, he wrote, was pennyroyal oil toxicosis.
• Even though pennyroyal oil is extremely poisonous, people have relied on the fresh and dried herb for centuries.
• When we sell the pennyroyal oil, we make it very clear that this is not for internal use,
• Pennyroyal oil is used for its medicinal properties, and was thought by the pioneers to be valuable as a carminative remedy.
• The " potentially risky " supplements identified here are aristolochic acid, comfrey, androstenedione, chaparral, germander, kava, bitter orange, organ-glandular extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe.
• "Pennyroyal oil has a long folk history as an abortifacient ( an abortion-causing substance ), " said Dr . Lise Alschuler, a naturopathic physician and chair of botanical medicine at Bastyr University.
• Pollard and other herbalists emphasize that pennyroyal oil, a highly concentrated distillate made from the plant, is not just a simpler way to fix yourself a potion rather than brewing pennyroyal leaf into tea.
• "What women are doing in these cases is creating such high toxicity that their own body is unable to sustain the pregnancy . . . . If pennyroyal oil is to work as an abortifacient, it's going to work because it's poisoning the mother ."
• In Bellweather, the news magazine for Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr . Robert Poppenga, associate professor of pathology, wrote that such holistic treatments can be dangerous, citing the case of a 7-year-old female German shepherd who died after being treated with pennyroyal oil, a natural flea repellent.