For those whose shopping list contains just two very particular items – each utterly unlike the other – the pictured street vendor is their one-stop shop.
The bearded gentleman was selling only three products.
One was packaged in boxes: it kills rodents.
Another was “loose”; the dried plant-parts are “medicinal” – allegedly beneficial to humans’ health and life expectancy.
I think (underline “think”) that they and the clear-wrapped plant-parts were, respectively, the outer (“bark”/“husk”) and inner parts of the same species.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer. (taken in the walled city of Lahore on 12 May 2024)