Culpeper: ‘Pulegium, penyroyal: provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins, strengthens womens backs, provokes the terms, easeth their labour in child-bed, bringeth away the after-birth, stays vomiting, strengthens the brain, (yea the very smell of it), breaks wind, and helps the vertigo'

Culpeper, Nicholas. (1650). A Physical Directory . London, Peter Cole.

Notes: Should be avoided in pregnancy as it is an abortifacient

Medicines Control Agency (MCA), . (2002). MCA Parliamentary Report 'Saferty of Herbal Medicnes'. MCA.

Toxic due to pulegone monoterpene.

Professor Anthony Dayan, 2021, 2022

"Humans: Harmful if eaten."- HTA guidelines.

The Horticultural Trades Association Guide to Potentially Harmful Plants 2022 https://hta.org.uk/poisonousplants

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