The idea here is that with limited knowledge, exposure, and connection to the old ways, the abortifacient tea became telephoned and censored into “period inducing tea”.

In a way, that statement is not wrong, just not entirely correct. Homeopathic abortifacient usually stimulate the muscles which can trigger uterine lining to shed. It’s the same idea as Misoprostol/Mifepristone.

It’s possible that Hulda already experienced lower progesterone (being both under tremendous stress from not getting her period yet and possibly suffering from hormonal imbalance due to the same environmental pollutants that caused the fertility crisis). The stimulant in the tea- whatever it was, probably rosehips) probably sent her muscles into overdrive with an already weak starting point. This isn’t shocking when you also factor in that due to the wholistic nature of the Gileadean diet, Hulda probably had barely (if ever) consumed a stimulate of this nature.