CONCERN OVER `HERBAL ABORTION' PENNYROYAL CAN BE TOXIC IF IT'S USED INCORRECTLY, DOCTORS CAUTION.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | October 26, 1996| | Copyright

The young woman was six weeks pregnant and didn't want to be.

But rather than go to a clinic or her doctor for a surgical abortion, she decided to do it herself - naturally, using an age-old herbal brew created from a member of the mint family, pennyroyal.

``Within hours after I first saw her, she was bleeding from every orifice,'' said Dr. Sandra Sultan, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Group Health's Eastside Hospital. ``I've never seen anything like it.''

The woman bled profusely, then went into kidney and liver failure and lapsed into a coma for ...

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