In the garden of Herbal Evil

The wounded man plants the bitter root of

Birthwort roots are slender strings.

after delivery it expells what is ever left in the matrix

Birthwort germinates the Myth that

from flowers grow small fruit-like pears with triangle blackish seeds.

Neolithic Stiff White Ladies: dolls from a girl's grave. White: symbol of death

Birthwort when climbing takes hold of anything next to it

Motherhood:
Home and Role Restriction

Womens worth is gaged by their success as mothers and housekeepers

Birthwort has a bitter taste.

Professional and Intellectual Life

Impeded or enforced but taken away from her

if drunk with water plucks out thorns, splinters and diseases

Polygamy in France

Immigrant from Mali with two of his three wives and seven of their children. African women in France turn against home practice of polygamy.

small birthwort is lesser and tenderer than long and round birthwort

Murders in the name of Anti-Abortion

John Salvi III killed two women and wounded five other people in Planned Parenthood Clinics in Abortion Row in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Donald Spitz, a Protestant preacher quickly hailed Salvi as a hero. Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, who once called abortion "the primordial evil of our times," recinded his initial response of moratoriums on pro-life demonstrations outside abortion clinics.

has a loathsome smell and flavor .

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