RE: Verhütung mit Pfefferbaum + Wilder Möhre
Nun bin ich doch so halbwegs fündig geworden:
John Riddle hat in North Carolina einen Garten angelegt mit den ihm bekannten Pflanzen, die früher zu Verhütungszecken genutzt wurden.
Bücher von ihm zu diesem Thema sind:
Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West und
Contraception and Abortion from Ancient World to the Renaissance
Daß wir heutzutage weder die Pflanzen noch die Dosierungen kennen, liegt nicht daran, daß sie nicht wirksam waren oder nicht getestet wurden (sie wurden über Jahrhunderte angewandt), sondern daß dieses Wissen als Hexerei verteufelt, verboten und verfolgt wurde.
Leider habe Rezensionen über die beiden Bücher nur in Englisch gefunden (wen's interessiert):
Book News, Inc.
Having demonstrated in that until fairly recently women regulated fertility safety and reliably with an extensive pharmacopeia, Riddle (history, North Carolina State U.) now explores how they lost that knowledge in modern times. He finds that the knowledge was never lost, only made inaccessible to most women, and that it survives coded, persecuted as witchcraft in earlier days and as crime in ours. He begins with the Inquisition in 1390 and ends with a chapter on American herbs. --
Fascinating and tantalizing, 22. Juni 1999 Rezensentin/Rezensent: Rachel (
[email protected]) aus Columbia, Missouri
Looking for information about birth control options is frustrating. This book tantalizes the reader with the possibilities but unfortunately, as the author points out, it is impossible to find real methods without trial and error, which is not an acceptable risk for most of us! It is fascinating to learn that birth control was possible even before vulcanized rubber and the pill, and there are possibilities out there that haven't been touched by the medical community. This book and its companion (Eve's Herbs) are well worth reading and I recommend them to anyone interested in not only family planning of the ancients' but also the history of the western world's attitude toward fertility, especially contraception and abortion. Physicians especially could learn a lot from this book. --