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The Apothecary Diaries Ep 11: Unedited Access (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-20 00:00:04
Edited:
2025-11-05 16:10:36
Imported:
2026-09

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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy your unedited access to my detailed analysis of the Apothecary Diaries episode 11. WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE SHOW?!

Is Jinshi a secret prince between Lady Ah-Duo and the Emperor?! I mean, with all the foreshadowing, Maomao's analysis, and hints dropping...C'MON?!

I go HAM in this episode, and seriously bamboozled by the end lol

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dylan

reclaiming my title as first

dylan

very excited for this episode !!!

Levanah

Missed it by 30 seconds! :-)

dylan

the official genre is drama and mystery with a subplot of romance !!

dylan

also! jinshi doesn’t actually know that ah-duo is his mom and was raised to believe that he was the emperors brother his whole life!

EHelström

Just here to point out that it wasn't Jinshi drinking alone on the wall. It was Ah-Duo. The style of clothes were the same as when she met Maomao on the wall.

Greg Boege

The genre is Sherlock Holmes, sharing it with such shows as Elementary, Sherlock, Enola Holmes, House MD, Monk, The Mentalist, Psych and White Collar. This is the Chinese-Palace-Drama Pharmacist Sherlock Holmes Anime version

dylan

is that spoilers?? i thought it was addressed this episode? i apologize if it is spoilers but it seemed to me that it talked about it at the end?

Greg Boege

They suggest that it's possible, it sews the seed, but we don't get confirmation for a while.

dylan

then i deeply apologize, i really did not mean to say any spoilers and i would never do that on purpose. that is completely my bad

Greg Boege

It's not a huge spoiler as they do suggest it here... and there are certain things* that become more predictable if you have the confirmation. * Amphibious things I can appreciate your situation, though. It is terribly difficult to put oneself back into the state that you originally experienced the story at this episode. Our minds will overwrite concepts as we update our knowledge of them and going back to a time specific context is truly a difficult task to perform. The only reason I could do it, I believe, is that I had a very specific and strong reaction to that point in the episode and so the feeling of quasi-understanding and quasi-confusion combined was implanted on my memories.

Psychotherapist Reacts

It’s fine, I don’t consider this as a spoiler since it’s been suggested and won’t impact my prediction

Jan Negrey

EDIT: As Lysandia pointed out, honey is the potential source of botulism. And normal pasteurization won't help much. So I'm talking here from poison perspective, less from bacteriological one. Regular honey, should be fine for newborn babies. The issue is that more exotic Honey's that are fine for adults and even young children, contain trace amounts of toxins that CAN be lethal to newborns. Most of them only in first 3-6 months of life. Some of them up to 3rd year. And this was mostly issue in higher society, where you had more... exotic honeys (which are also more expensive, but are thought to be delicacies). Out of about 80 honeys that I tried (I have a friend who has an apiary), about 3 would be dangerous to infants less than 6 months old. Albeit some of them might be to heavy on the stomach, but due to their consistency you wouldn't give them to infants either way. Azalea (Rhododendron) is a source of mad honey - if you remember the flower that Mao Mao chewed on in episode 1 or 2, that was it. Aconite (usually known as Wolf's bane), has aconitine. Very strong alkaloid poison. But again, even few year old child could eat honey from it and be fine, unless they eat a lot. It's a confluence of many tiny missteps. Fengming coming from apiary family was probably taught that honey is good for children (and it is great - in small quantities or diluted), but might have not known that few of them are extremely dangerous. And there had to be a LOT of doses to kill a child, even then.

Jan Negrey

Think of it like that. The earliest that Fengming could find out about the fact that it was honey, was 11 years after the baby died. So I wouldn't say she covered it up per se. It would feel odd to open such wounds. Difficult stuff.

Jan Negrey

Basically in any place that I know of that has ancestral worship stars were used as signifiers that those who are dead are looking at us from above. It's just that Christianity (depending on the period) didn't like that approach.

Dissacharyde

The way Maomao just brushes her own deduction aside like it's nothing, is so funny to me. I love the plot twists in this EP so much! Looking forward to what is to come...

Lysandia

to my knowledge: NO, dont give ANY honey to a child below 2 years just generally, since you cant ever know if it will cause botulism or not, regardless of where its from

Jan Negrey

You do have to be careful of many things. Nowadays we have honeys that are screened and safe. Back in those times though, often honey was the only thing that was sort of available to lower class, didn't require teeth to eat it and was nutritious. And of course you would dilute it often to make it even easier for a child. And that was one of the reasons why so many infants died. My comment was mostly about 18th Century and prior, when this Anime/Novel is set. I forgot to mention that this has nothing to do with immune system. It's how developed digestive system is. Think of the times before there were baby formulas and after you had to wean off baby from breastfeeding (6-12 months of life mostly) - that was when majority of such deaths occured. And botulism can be caused by many different foods. But yes before 1st year of life it's better to avoid honey if it wasn't checked for Clostridium botulinum.

Mike

The genre I could only come up with to describe it to someone was "a combination of palace intrigue and mystery".

Waiting4Erik

The flower Maomao put in her mouth is an Azalea 🌺 . It is the same flower she shows to Fengming. It is a member of the rhodendron family, the flower of the first few episodes. It is toxic to humans and animals.

Waiting4Erik

Thinking back to the homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of Sherlock Holmes - Master Konan - from a few episodes ago. Maomao shares similar traits to the master detective. High IQ and deductive abilities. seeming aloofness and detachment, a connoisseur of fine things (French wine and tobacco for Sherlock, chocolate and mushrooms for Maomao), and a penchant for toxic substances. Sherlock Holmes was a famous IV drug user - a 7% injectable solution of cocaine. He found it mentally stimulating. The Victorian Era enjoyed the highs from cocaine, alcohol, and opium/morphine without fully understanding the toxicity of those substances. And we all know Maomao loves her poisons and booze.

Psychotherapist Reacts

That’s so true! Maomao is an exceptional detective, imagine giving her more years and experiences

Star Lin

So, I waited to post until this one was up because to me, 10 and 11 felt more like a two-part episode. Ah-Duo (while not the second favorite I mention in a previous post) is a top five favorite for me. Add the reveal that Ah-Duo and jinshi might be mother and son...Chef's kiss. You can't help but feel for Fengming though I don't agree with how she went the dark side route to keep Ah-Duo from finding out. Honestly, I think if Fengming and just come clean to Ah-Duo, she would have understood it was an accident. After all, she did tell the Ladies-in-waiting that she didn't blame and they shouldn't blame themselves on her son's death. I am curious over why Ah-Duo was watching Maomao from the balcony. It makes me wonder if she thought that Maomao was there to find out more about the suicide or if she might have overheard what Fengming and Maomao was speaking about. It would explain the mood she was in on the wall with Maomao. But that just might thoughts on that moment and probably way off from what was actually going on.

Anna

The anime is officially labeled as historical drama and mystery, and I think every episode and the overall series encapsulate that perfectly well.

Psychotherapist Reacts

That’s a great question, I feel like Ah-do was simply observing and maybe shows hinting at she knows more than what’s been let out? And I agree, they did feel like 2 parts

Ana Maria Zuñiga

My head cannon is that she heard everything and that's why she went up to see Maomao go away.

Jon Daux

You've finished S1 by now, so I can say that one criticism I have about the show is that they have all of this info about Jinshi very blatantly presented, but then they pretend like it's still a mystery throughout S1. We already did all the work!!