Over here, we know herbs and modern medicines can sometimes quarrel in the blood, like neighbours over a fence line. My ma's heart medicine turns bhal when she has it with bel, but her doctor didn't know about the bel at all. The city's list forgets our local plants—for us, it's not just grapefruit, but the sour aamlokhi in our backyard that makes a pill too strong. I learned this watching her, and now we steep the herbs at a different hour.
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