Subject: penny royal/blue chohosh information sought

From: [email-masked] (Dirk Teunis)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:39:42 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking or information on penny royal =?= blue chohosh

This is the name of a herb, the tea (oral) of which a girl friend of mine is 
using as a contraceptive. As i know nothing of this plant i'm a bit skeptical, 
and this makes me uncomfortable with it's effectiveness. It's originally 
supposed to be used by american indians (don't know if that's south or north a.).

A medline search on above names returned nothing useful.

I'm looking for - any information on this plant
                - the scientific name of this plant
                - articles published on the use of this plant as a contraceptive
                  in de medical or ethnobotanical literature.

e_mail preferred but not absolutely necessary

deGroeten
Dirk [*]