Diet & nutrition
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Blackcurrant-scented buchu; an important urinary herb
Buchu is a small, aromatic blackcurrant-scented South African shrub. Its full, currently accepted, scientific name is Agathosma betulina (P.J.Bergius) Pillans, although the attributing South African botanist Neville Stuart Pillans, 1884–1964 is not a relation of mine1,2. Buchu was a prized remedy among the Khoisan and other indigenous South African peoples, used both spiritually and medicinally3.…