Holy basil from the household gardens of Uttar Pradesh, the whole leaf concentrated 10:1 into small vegan capsules, faintly clove-scented: a daily habit borrowed from a much older one.
At a glance
In India a pot of tulsi stands beside nearly every household shrine, tended daily and treated less as a crop than as a member of the family. Folk belief holds that no house that grows tulsi comes to harm.