Our search tool – the ultimate goal?

• [human] I ate too much and my stomach hurts
• [machine] Make yourself an herbal tea of lemon verbena and yarrow, it will be better afterwards
• [human] You’re nice, but I don’t have one, don’t you have anything else?
• [machine] Well what do you have in store?
• [human] Melissa and thyme
• [machine] Go for the lemon balm, that’s good too
• [human] And what are proportions?
• …

Finding the right plant for a given problem is not always easy, especially when books suggest plants that don’t grow in our country or that are completely unknown to us. And also because according to the book, plants do not accompany problems in the same way. Even if the main lines are generally the same, the details can be surprising because of the differences. Our aim is to synthesize this valuable information and to regurgitate it clearly and concisely to accommodate our preferences and availability in terms of plants. I like the idea of the reservoir of medicinal plants available next to my house, either grown in my garden or wild in the surrounding forests and meadows. You always have an equivalent close to home to replace the miracle plant that grows 10,000 kilometers away.

Ok, but what exactly are you doing?

What I do is read books 🙂

And, with the help of my computer and Visual Studio Code, the plant sheets and the computer scripts needed to extract the data are created. The big initial work was to design the database. We now have a good vision of the organization of information. To get to this point, I got more than one drunk with my questions. Should I also mention the liters of tea swallowed and the hair pulled out in difficult moments of reflection? Hmm, maybe not!

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

sylvie