Silphium Resin

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Silphium resin is a poison, a drug, and a medication derived from the silphium plant which is native to Borca and has been transplanted to Paridon. It is popular as a general curative of some effect again minor ailments. Its principle merit, however, is as a means of birth control when dissolved in wine. Siphium resin prevents conception and it terminates, within several days at most, any existing pregnancy. It is used in particular by the dread doppelgangers to terminate doppelganger-pregnancies or to prepare a women for such a pregnancy.

Sources

Gazetteer IV

Gazetteer IV - p134

Gazetteer IV - pp134
Van Richten's Guide to Doppelgangers (Book) - p124