Complaint drawer
Type a complaint — cough, sleep, skin — or tap chips. Matching plates and cups rise by how many of those traditional uses they carry. A folk index, not a diagnosis.
9 plates for bloating

Bay laurel
Laurus nobilis
The soup leaf of the Mediterranean — a pot shrub whose dried blade flavors broth and beans.
bloating

Cilantro
Coriandrum sativum
The herb people argue about — leaf for salsa, seed for digestion. A two-crop kitchen annual.
bloating

Dill
Anethum graveolens
Feathery kitchen green and a caraway-cousin seed — the pickle herb, also an after-dinner chew.
bloating

Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Anise-sweet seed for gas, colic folklore, and after-dinner breath.
bloating

French tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus var. sativa
Anise-leaf of French kitchens — a sterile clone you buy as a plant, then tarragon-vinegar the rest of your life.
bloating

Green cardamom
Elettaria cardamomum
The queen of spices — a tropical ginger whose green pods scent chai, coffee, and after-meal folklore.
bloating

Peppermint
Mentha × piperita
A hybrid mint whose menthol cools the gut and opens the sinuses — classic after-dinner leaf.
bloating

Spearmint
Mentha spicata
The sweeter garden mint — less menthol fire, more green candy. A children’s and after-dinner leaf.
bloating

Sweet basil
Ocimum basilicum
The pesto leaf — a cooling kitchen mint for digestion and summer nerves.
bloating
Cups for the same complaint
After-dinner mint
Settle a heavy meal — gas, quease, the too-full feeling.
bloating
Bay after-beans
The soup leaf, drunk as a short cup after a heavy, bean-y plate.
bloating
Cardamom after-chai
A short, camphor-lemon spice cup after coffee or a sweet — digestion, not a latte recipe.
bloating
Fennel after-meal
Sweet seed tea for bloating and cramp after a heavy plate.
bloating
Sweet basil after-supper
A clove-green cup after a tomato-heavy plate — cooling, not a sleep drug.
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