There ’s a quite a little of big nascence control advice out there in the wild of the Internet . On YouTube , mass might tell you that drinking garlic milk will prevent maternity . ( Spoiler alert , it wo n’t actually do that . ) In fact , garliccan actually make nascency ascendency pills less in force . The only way it might work is if it makes your breathing time so repulsive that nobody comes nigh enough to make pregnancy a risk .
But recently some viral advice has been even worse than merely ineffective , moving into the " actively dangerous " category . In a tweet that received thousands of ilk and share , one Twitter drug user post some fairly alarming " natural parentage dominance option " .
Though there were quite a few people trusting the tweet at face time value , there was , fortunately , a respectable dose of disbelieving hoi polloi out there to point out that these " alternative " are ineffective and even dangerous .
And to just mock the tweet .
None of the constituent listed have been clinically tested or proven by science to foreclose pregnancy .
“ There ’s no skill or medicine to it at all , ” OB - GYN Nathaniel DeNicola toldBuzzFeed News . “ It ’s scarcely even worth diving into it because it ’s so unsupported by science . ”
However , the ineffectualness of the advice is not the bad part of the tweet .
The tweet was finally take down after it was describe a identification number of times under the " encourages self - hurt " category .
The reason behind this is the inclusion of pennyroyal ( Mentha pulegium ) .
" Pennroyal promotes catamenial flow and aid initiate self - abortion , " the entry reads . " Often it is dictate with other herbs to prevent gestation . Boil 8 ounce of distilled or spring water . "
The plant life can get – amongst other problems – serious kidney , liver , and nervous system harm as well as sickness , abdomen painfulness , high blood pressure , lung loser , brain equipment casualty , and puke .
Especially concerning is that the post contain no measuring entropy , leaving the lector to take a risky guess at what boiling " 8 oz. of distilled or spring water " could mean . The plant has beenattributed to a issue of deathsthrough the years , including one otherwise healthy 18 - class - quondam who film 28 Gram ( 1 ounce ) of saturated pennyroyal oil to render to induce an miscarriage , and a 23 - year - old who die after swallowing a tablespoon of the industrial plant to attempt to cause menstruation .
All in all , good to forfend contraception advice from an net chart that includes a known poisonous substance . If you want something that will exercise , maybe taste safe or else , or any of the other uncommitted and scientifically proven ( and secure ) nascence control method .
