/oss/taxonomy/term/1330/all en /oss/article/food-health-history-toxicity/castor-bean-oil-plays-growing-role-chocolate-manufacture <p>I think the first medicine I ever heard of was “Ricinus,” a liquidy concoction with which my mother plied me when she suspected I was constipated. I can’t imagine why as a child I would have had such a problem, since our diet in Hungary back then included generous doses of goose fat that should have allowed everything to slide through at a pretty regular pace.</p> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:25:19 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2044 at /oss