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  2. Mentha pulegium - Wikipedia

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    Mentha pulegium, commonly (European) pennyroyal, or pennyrile, also called mosquito plant [2] and pudding grass, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. [4] Crushed pennyroyal leaves emit a very strong fragrance similar to spearmint.

  3. Menthofuran - Wikipedia

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    Menthofuran is an organic compound found in a variety of essential oils including that of pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium).It is highly toxic and believed to be the primary toxin in pennyroyal responsible for its potentially fatal effects. [1]

  4. List of herbs with known adverse effects - Wikipedia

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    Kidney toxicity [5] associated with kidney failure; associated with development of cancer, particularly of the urinary tract, known carcinogen [8] [9] Atractylate Atractylis gummifera: Liver damage, [3] nausea, vomiting, epigastric and abdominal pain, diarrhoea, anxiety, headache and convulsions, often followed by coma [10]

  5. Food poisoning is extremely common. But that doesn't ... - AOL

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    Common symptoms of food poisoning include stomach aches and pain, nausea, fever, vomiting, diarrhea and headache. "Those most at risk for severe foodborne illness include children under 5 ...

  6. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    Mentha pulegium: pennyroyal, pennyrile Lamiaceae: It is toxic to humans and has differing effects dependent on the volume and concentration ingested. The most concentrated and toxic form of the pennyroyal plant is pennyroyal oil. The oil contains 80% to 92% of cyclohexanone pulegone.

  7. Pennyroyal - Wikipedia

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    Mentha pulegium (pennyroyal or European pennyroyal), a European herb; Hedeoma pulegioides (American pennyroyal or false pennyroyal), an American herb; Monardella odoratissima (mountain pennyroyal), mint family plant found in the southwestern United States

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  9. Hedeoma pulegioides - Wikipedia

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    The name pulegioides is derived from the Latin pulegium, and means "like pennyroyal", in reference to European pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium). [8] The name pulegium was given to European pennyroyal by Pliny the Elder in the first century CE, for its use in repelling fleas (pulex, plural pulices) when it was spread on floors.