culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinalorspiritual use any of the parts of the plant might be considered herbs, including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, inner bark (and cambium), berries and sometimes the pericarporother portions of the plant. Culinary use of the term herb typically distinguishes between herbs, from the leafy green parts of a plant (either freshordried), and spices, from other parts of the plant (usually dried), including seeds, berries, bark, root and