Meningitis is an infection or inflammation of the meninges-the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It may be bacterial, viral, or fungal and is SERIOUS and life th â¦ reatening.
Pennyroyal is subversive, a means of taking control over oneâs own reproductive system. Pennyroyal exists outside the masculine mainstream, in garden patches and teacups, and there is a power in that. But while pennyroyal has certainly saved women, it has killed women too. It is, absolutely and irrevocably, a signal of an antifeminist past that constantly threatens to break into the present.
Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or for roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive.