High-tech herbs on an astral plane
FEEDBACK’S quest to classify fruitloop “remedies” appears to have uncovered a new genus: high-tech plants. Why market a boring old herbal remedy containing something related to the weed milk-vetch when you can squint sideways at the Linnaean name of its family of plants, , ignore the fact that “astragalus” is Ancient Greek for “ankle bone”, and call it ““? (Feedback assumes, and we do hope we are correct, that the “rare astragalus extract” involved is not from another member of the family, locoweed, so named because it sends livestock crazy.)
It’s not the name that is high-tech, however, but…
