Draft talk:Table of plants used as herbs or spices

Please add to this... It is obviously but a bare beginning. If some ambitious soul can add a picture column, that might be good. And, obviously, it needs a *lot* more entries. Tamtrible (talk) 02:13, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Uses

The "uses" section is not intended to be an exhaustive list, there are usually only a few terms appropriate to use:

Culinary: it is used to flavor food products (don't include use in teas, except where it's also used to flavor other things)

Medicinal: it is intentionally used to create (or allegedly create) some health effect in users, usually in the form of some concentrate or extract (including teas).

Fragrance: it is used to add a pleasing scent to cosmetics or the like, and/or burned to create a pleasant smell

Ceremonial: it is used in some religious, magical, or other culturally significant ritual. Only count cases where it is in some way an important part of the ritual, rather than something fairly incidental (eg if a ritual commonly involves eating some food often but not always flavored with a particular herb or spice, that's a culinary use, not really a ritual one)

edit: I used "Ritual" without thinking, and I think that's 1. equally valid, and 2. shorter, so I'm going with it. Tamtrible (talk) 00:47, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you think there is some important use I have not included in this list, please mention it here and we can discuss adding it to the acceptable list of uses.