Misoprostol (PGE1) is a drug that very commonly used in obstetrics for labour induction. Apart from its side effect of causing congenital malformations offspring users who have unsuccessfully it as an abortifacient, considered safe with few effects. We here report severe hypersensitivity reaction to misoprostol 33-year-old term pregnant patient non-allergic vaginal misoprostol. The developed an...

Fertility is possibly the most important capability contained within living cells or species. Therefore, finding the most efficacious way to enhance or promote fertility is the main goal of all living things. To best manage nature's strong predisposition for fertility, plant-based traditional medicines for birth control have long been incorporated into medical practices throughout the world, in...

Oshá or oshála is the traditional name of plants in the genera Lomatium and Ligusticum that are used medicinally by indigenous peoples in North and Central America. Oshá root has been used medicinally in women’s medicine as a natural contraceptive, an abortifacient, an emmenagogue, and an oxytocic agent. Given its traditional use in women’s medicine, previous researchers hypothesized that it wo...

"FEMALE PILLS" or other internal medicines for "complaints peculiar to females" formed a small but distinct group among the medicines advertised in eighteenthcentury newspapers. There were, for instance, six such preparations found in a sample of Bath newspapers in the second half of the eighteenth century and one of them, Hooper's Female Pills, was the fourth most frequently advertised among t...

Contraception (birth control) is a topic that is often addressed quickly and with some trepidation by most high school teachers because the subject is fraught with emotional, psychological, and religious overtones. However, it is a topic that must be addressed because many students are sexually active (or have plans to be), the AIDS crisis has once again brought reproductive activity into the l...

Termination of pregnancy with abortifacient paste appears at first to be a satisfactory method. The points in its favour are ease of insertion, usually without a general anaesthetic, and the possibility of evacuating the uterus up to 20 weeks of gestation without opening the abdomen. Lachelin and Burgess (1968) claimed that there is no need for routine curettage, but this was done in the presen...

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza is widely distributed around the world, being found in tropical south and east Africa, southeastern Asia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Australia and Ryuku Islands. The bark is used as an abortifacient and for treating burns in the Solomon Islands and is used for malaria and diarrhea in Cambodia and in Indonesia and China respectively, and cure fish poisoning (Marshall Islands). ...