*Altai's "Avoiding Peony" and "Taiga Hermit — herbal tea for women," Tver's "Feminine Essence," Peru's "Dry Extract of Pasuchaka Geranium," the mysterious Indian product "Chyawanprash Avaleha Special," the Chinese syrup "Kidney Treasure," the Indonesian "Geisha," along with many other American, Canadian, and even Dutch pills and tinctures, will no longer embarrass Russians with their suggestive names. As stated in the appendix to the sanitary regulations, the reason for the ban is that it is impossible to completely rule out the transmission of infectious diseases through crushed and rendered skulls, brains, eyes, and palatine tonsils of ruminant animals—it turns out many companies add all of this to their remedies. *http://newsru.com/russia/30jul2008/bads.html And I literally have a little box of "Avoiding Peony" sitting in my bathroom. I remembered it because the name is funny: why exactly is this peony avoiding something, and whom is it avoiding? Avoiding its peony duties? I should ask my wife what the hell she bought it for. Maybe she's developed a taste for crushed skulls?