Herbs Plant Info

Herbs is a plant that is valued for flavor, scent, medicinal or other qualities and other used in cooking, as medicines, and for spiritual purposes.

Herbs Uses :
                   Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual usage. General usage difffers between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the parts of plant might be considered herbs, including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, barries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions of the plant.

Herbs Culinary :
                        Culinary use of the term herbs typically distinguishes between herbs, from the leafy green part of the plant, including seeds, barries, bark, root and fruit. Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amount and provide flavor rather than substance to food.
Many culinary herbs are prennials such as thyme or lavender, while other are biennials such as parsley or annual like basil, and some are shurb or trees, this contrsts with botanial herbs, which by definition cannot be woody plant.

Medicinal Herbs :
                         Plants contain phytochemicals that have effects on body. History from the quran the medicinal benefits of herbs are quoted.
There may be some effects when consumed in the small levels that typify culinary spicing and some herbs are toxic in larger quantities. For instance, some types of herbal extract, such as the extract,
can be used for madical purposes to relieve depression and stress, However, large amounts of these herbs may lead to toxic overload that may involve complications, some of a serious nature, and should be used with caution. One herbs like substance, called shilajit, may actually help lower blood glucose levels which is especially important thoses suffering from diabetes. Herbs have long been used as the basic of  traditonal herbal medicine.
Medicinal use of herbs in wastern cultures has roots in the hippocratic(greek) elemental healing system, based on a 4 fold elements healing metaphor. Famous herbalist of the wetern tradition include Avicenna(arabian), Galen(roman), Paracelsus(german), Culpeper(english).

Herbs as food products ingredients :
        Herbs, such as Chondus crispus and Maranta arundinacea are used extensively in many common foods found on grocery shelves. Chondus chrispus is subjected to arendering-purifying-bleaching prosess to produce carrageenan that is used as a bulking and thickening agent starch content, expansive quality when added to water and sticky binding nature, is used extensively in bakery products, especially as a non-gluten ingredients for gluten-free diet needs...