Word: indomethacin
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...without prescriptions. The drug companies themselves acknowledge that it should not be taken by anyone with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes or thyroid disease. These conditions often afflict the overweight, in many instances without their knowledge. PPA, alone or together with other drugs, such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (antidepressants) or indomethacin (an antiarthritic), can induce severe episodes of hypertension. There has also been a case of kidney failure in a woman who had been taking a PPA preparation for a few weeks along with a few tablets of aspirin and acetaminophen...
Aspirin may be safer than you think. Two Harvard researchers have found it to be an effective contraceptive in female rats. Indomethacin, a common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be twenty to thirty times as effective as aspirin as a rat contraceptive...
...contraceptive effect could be produced by injections of 10 milligrams of aspirin or one-half milligram of indomethacin per rat for two days. These dosages are approximately equivalent to one and one-half times the maximum prescribed human dosage...
Behrman and Orczyk linked the striking effect of aspirin and indomethacin to luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins. LH stimulates the final ripening and rupture of the ovary follicles to release the eggs and is essential for ovulation. Prostaglandins are natural hormones which help to regulate various bodily functions including ovulation...
...determine the effect of aspirin and indomethacin on human ovulation, Behrman and Orczyk are beginning preliminary studies with women who take large amounts of aspirin and indomethacin for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis...