Orchids as Aphrodisiac, Medicine or Food

摘要

Dr. Eng soon Teoh is a physician by profession, scientist and writer by inclination, and orchid grower by avocation. [Full disclosure: we have been friends since 1974 and spent much time together, some of it in good places to eat, during my frequent visits to Singapore.] is combination of talents resulted in several medical books and seven excellent orchid books. Four are aimed at growers (Teoh, 1980, 1994, 2005, 2011), two deal with the correct history of the National Flower of Singapore, Vanda Miss Joaquim (Teoh, 1982, 1998; for more on this orchid and the controversy, which surrounds its origin see Hew et al., 2002 as well as Arditti and Hew, 2007), and one is scientic (Teoh, 2016; for a book review, see Arditti, 2017). His eighth and most recent book is a less technical companion to his Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016). It is aimed at more general readers, has an added emphasis on the use of orchids as food and aphrodisiacs, and its coverage is worldwide.