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This type of contraception is currently regaining attention in some scientific and historian circles. [2] [3] Plant-based contraceptives and abortifacient drugs may have been widely used in antiquity and the Middle Ages, but much knowledge about ancient forms of medicinal contraception appears to have vanished. [4]
Cinnamon has been used in ancient traditional Mexican medicine as an abortifacient and contraceptive. [12] Nahua women used parts of the plants in the Bignonia and Hameilia genera and those of the shaving brush tree (Pseudobombax ellipticum) in their medical practices as well. [13]
[110] Commencing more research into possible contraceptives. The data from this research made its way into the previously mentioned medical journals, already containing a list of abortifacients, providing a great variety of drugs and other prescribed substances for use as a contraceptive. [108] The lists of drugs and other substances in these ...
The medieval Islamic physician Ibn Sina documented various birth control practices, including the use of rue as an abortifacient. [29] Similarly, 11th-century physician Constantine the African described multiple abortifacient herbs, which he classified by order of their intensity, starting with abortifacients that had weaker effects on the body ...
Medieval medicine is widely misunderstood, thought of as a uniform attitude composed of placing hopes in the church and God to heal all sicknesses, while sickness itself exists as a product of destiny, sin, and astral influences as physical causes. But, especially in the second half of the medieval period (c. 1100–1500 AD), medieval medicine ...
The study of nature was pursued more for practical reasons than as an abstract inquiry: the need to care for the sick led to the study of medicine and of ancient texts on drugs, [7] the need for monks to determine the proper time to pray led them to study the motion of the stars, [8] the need to compute the date of Easter led them to study and ...
OTC birth control pills are a newer option for people in the U.S. In July 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill as a nonprescription oral birth control pill. Opill is now ...
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