Category: CHINA

• CHINA HERBAL MEDICINE SHAKESPEARE

  APRICOT

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Apricot Lisa Karen Miller To make Knotted Biscuits of Apricots: “Take ripe apricots, pare, stone, and beat them small, then boil them until they are thick.  Take them off the fire and beat them up with sifted Sugar and Aniseeds to make a pretty fine paste. …

  March 11, 2026
• CHINA HERBAL MEDICINE KENTUCKY NATIVE AMERICANS

  GOLDENROD

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Goldenrod Lisa Karen Miller           The common plant that serves as Kentucky’s state flower was once terribly expensive in England because it was imported from the Middle East. When a walker on Hampstead Heath in London noticed it growing wild, its price dropped overnight from half…

  March 10, 2026
• CHINA

  PEACH

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Peach Lisa Karen Miller           Is there anything better than the aroma and taste of freshly baked peach cobbler? If there is, I’d like to try it.           Every six thousand years, the Chinese immortals host an extravagant ceremony called The Feast of Peaches. The trees…

  October 18, 2023