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№ 011TreesAmla: The Sacred Sour Fruit of a Thousand Remedies
The Indian gooseberry — a translucent, mouth-puckeringly sour fruit extraordinarily rich in vitamin C, revered as the holiest of trees in Ayurveda, and the keystone of India's most famous herbal tonics.
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№ 021TreesAshoka Tree: The Sorrowless Tree of Gods and Women
A small, sacred, orange-flowered tree woven through the myths of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism — associated with love, fertility, and 'the removal of sorrow' — and long a medicine for women, now over-harvested and threatened.
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№ 280TreesMyrobalan: The 'King of Medicines' and the Ink of Empires
The chebulic myrobalan — a Terminalia fruit revered in Ayurveda as the greatest of all herbs, one of the three in triphala, and a tannin so rich it dyed cloth, tanned leather, and made ink for a thousand years.
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