Culinary and Spice Herbs

The herbs and spices that earn their place in the kitchen first and the medicine chest second. Several — garlic, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon — carry real research behind them; the pages say where the cooking dose and the studied dose part company, because for most of these that gap is the whole story.

A herb is filed here by what it is traditionally used for, not by a claim that it works. Each herb page states its own evidence tier, its documented harms and its drug interactions — read those before the category name.