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What's In A Name?

What's In A Name?

Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Jun 6th 2016

We get calls all day here at 1st Chinese Herbs and at times, the questions are difficult to figure out. For example, someone called in and asked if we had "whortleberry," or "hurtle berry." We had no idea what this name was referring to, so we asked for a botanical name. The botanical name was Vaccinium myrtillus, which we can identify as bilberries.  Without the botanical name, …
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