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Our search tool – machine language!

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Our search tool – machine language!

The information is entered in “pseudocode”, that is to say in a language that remains readable for humans and that is easily interpretable by the machine.

{include ap r=ali_et_al_2017 p=1140 c=”, \ **gynecological disorders**\””}
{include ap r=bernard_2018 p=180 c=”, \”**dysmenorrhea**\””}
{include ap r=corjon_2018 p=32 c=”, \”**pelvic pain related to menstruation**\””}
…

I was lucky, I fell into the magic potion pot when I was still young enough to understand what machine language was. Ooh ha, that seems complicated!

Nowadays, we talk to our computer or phone as we would talk to a friend, that is to say with our human language. Before (not to mention over time), you always had to use the language of your machine to be able to communicate with it. To get him to do stuff, we used the command line. For example, to delete pdfs, we would type a line like:

sylvie$ rm*.pdf

Recently, I talked about the relevance of information, and more specifically about the fact that not all the disorders mentioned in the books were necessarily useful to identify. Indeed, medicine has made some progress since the middle ages. Now it’s time to highlight how we code news.

But what does all this gibberish mean?

All this gibberish actually makes my life easier. The information is entered in “pseudocode”, that is to say in a language that remains readable for humans and that is easily interpretable by the machine.

Yarrow, for example, is best known for its hemenagogical properties. In short, it is very useful in case of dysmenorrhea, that is to say in case of pain that occurs during menstruation. It’s not me who says it, it’s “Corjon”, “Debuigne et Couplan”, “Fleurentin et Hayon” to name a few.

In the line of pseudocode below, I am asking my computer to include in my list of references that Debuigne and Couplan mentioned in the 2019 book on page 24 that yarrow was useful in case of painful period. It remains readable for me and it is easy to decipher by the machine with a small program of nothing… so a win win!

{include ap r=debuigne_couplan_2019 p=24 c=”,\” **painful rules**\””}

What you get is exactly what you want, which is a list of authors who mention that yarrow is appropriate for dysmenorrhea, with the authors’ own terms as well as the page on which these terms appear in the books so as to facilitate checks.

  • Bernard, C. 2018. Grand manuel pour fabriquer ses remèdes naturels [p. 180, “dysmenorrhea”]. Jouvence Editions.
  • Corjon, G. (2018). Se soigner par les plantes [p. 32, “douleurs pelviennes liées aux règles”]. Editions Gisserot.
  • Débuigne, G., & Couplan, F. (2019). Le Petit Larousse des plantes médicinales [p. 24, “règles douloureuses”]. Larousse.
  • …

See you very soon for the next phyto-info newsletter!

sylvie

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