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Podcast: HerbRally
Episode: Herbal Motifs in the Ancient Mediterranean | Part 3: The Fruit Motif featuring Pomegranate with Maria Christodoulou
Description: Throughout history, plants have evoked the curiosities of the human imagination. Join herbalist Maria Christodoulou for a three-part series exploring herbal motifs in the ancient Mediterranean region, featuring the sinful fig leaf, the sensual rose flower, and the good luck pomegranate fruit. Maria Christodoulou is a clinical herbalist exploring the wisdom and whimsy of ancient Greek herbal medicine as The Greek Herbalist. In a previous lifetime, she lived on a farm in ancient Greece and found the cure for plagues. She researches and writes about medicinal plants in fantastical myths, ancient scientific writings, and artistic representations that...