How a card earns its place.

Where the sources come from.

We cite from one list of bodies, and only that list. For modern medicine it is the diagnostic and guideline bodies. For each traditional system it is the body that governs, researches or records that system in its own country. If a body is not on the list, we do not cite it, and we do not fill the gap from memory.

• Modern medicineWHO ICD-11 for diagnosis; NICE, ACG, ACOG, AASM, Cochrane and PubMed-indexed trials for treatment
• AyurvedaMinistry of AYUSH, CCRAS, the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine, the NAMASTE terminology portal
• Traditional Chinese MedicineNational Administration of TCM (China), WHO ICD-11 traditional medicine module 1, the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies
• UnaniCCRUM's Standard Unani Treatment Guidelines, Ministry of AYUSH, NCISM Board of Unani
• KampoJapan Society for Oriental Medicine, its Evidence Reports of Kampo Treatment, the PMDA and MHLW formulary of insured formulas
• SiddhaCentral Council for Research in Siddha, National Institute of Siddha, Chennai
• NaturopathyWorld Naturopathic Federation, National Institute of Naturopathy (India), AANMC
• HomeopathyLMHI, the European Committee for Homeopathy, the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, NCH (India)
• African traditional medicineWHO Regional Office for Africa, the West African Herbal Pharmacopoeia, AHPCSA (South Africa), the African Union's STRC
• Indigenous healingCommunity-controlled bodies first: Indian Health Service (US), NACCHO (Australia), First Nations Health Authority (Canada)
• Functional and Lifestyle medicineInstitute for Functional Medicine; American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine
• Mind-body medicineNCCIH (US National Institutes of Health), the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, the Benson-Henry Institute

Where a tradition’s own bodies publish little in English, we say so on the card rather than stretch a weaker source. Indigenous healing has no single governing body; authority rests with sovereign nations and community-controlled organisations, and we cite those first.

How a card is made.

1. 01
   Source

   Passages are gathered from the bodies above and stored verbatim, with the document or page they came from. A homepage is not a citation; a card whose sources only reach a publisher's front door says so.

2. 02
   Extract

   One fact per tradition per condition. The extraction step must quote the exact passage it used. It cannot summarise from what it thinks it knows.

3. 03
   Verify

   A second pass matches every quoted passage back to the stored source, word for word. If the match fails, the card is dropped. Nothing is softened to get it through.

4. 04
   Grade and guard

   The card takes one of five evidence words, a safety note that is never empty, and the dosing rules below. Ingredient and condition cautions are checked against a fixed rule set before the card is written.

5. 05
   Publish

   The reader sees the card with its source list, its grade and its safety line. The same passage is there to be traced.

The five evidence words.

One scale across every tradition, modern medicine included. It rates the current weight of clinical evidence behind a remedy. It never rates the validity of the tradition, and a “documented lineage” card is not a lesser card, only a differently evidenced one.

• ●●●●●Gold standard · clinical guideline169 cards

  A clinical guideline body recommends it. The card names the body and the year.

• ●●●●○Preliminary research · human trials288 cards

  Research in people has tested it. The card's research note says what was found and when.

• ●●●○○Traditional · documented lineage201 cards

  A named classical text, pharmacopoeia or official treatment guideline of the tradition records it.

• ●●○○○Anecdotal · widely reported6 cards

  Widely reported in use, but not recorded in a source of the kinds above. Rare on the shelf.

• ●○○○○Theoretical · early signal1 card

  An early signal only, from mechanism or laboratory work. Rare on the shelf.

Dosing: we report, we never prescribe.

Adopted on 14 September 2026 on the advice of our traditional medicine, modern medicine, scientific and legal seats. A kitchen quantity in a recipe is preparation, and is published. A figure attached to a substance is pharmacology, and is reported in research context only.

1. 1.A recipe card may state kitchen quantities and timings: millilitres, cups, spoons, halves, minutes.
2. 2.No card states a pharmacological dose as an instruction. No milligrams, grams, international units, granule or tablet counts in a step, a title or an ingredient line.
3. 3.A dose from a study appears only in the research note, in the past tense, with the study, the year and the population.
4. 4.Prescription-only and pharmacy medicines carry no dose anywhere. We name the class or the medicine and route you to a pharmacist or GP.
5. 5.Practitioner-dispensed formulas are named and described, with the dose left to a qualified practitioner.
6. 6.Pages for children carry no quantity of any active substance: preparation only, an age floor, and a line to speak to a pharmacist or GP.
7. 7.A fixed educational line closes every card. A card that breaks any of these rules is blocked before it is written to the shelf, not corrected by hand.

Where the library stands today.

109

published condition pages

665

remedy cards on those pages

13

traditions with a card

1,019

source rows behind the cards

85%

of cards link to a specific document or page

15%

cite a publisher homepage only, marked on the card

Counted from the live database on 23 September 2026, refreshed within an hour of any change. 3 cards currently carry no source row at all and are queued for removal or re-sourcing.

Honest gaps.

When a published page holds no traditional pane at all, it says so in the open: “The traditions are quiet on this one.” The page is logged in our research-gap register, raised with the bodies who could fund the work, and grows the moment a credible source lands. 1 page sits on the register today.

Review.

A page will only ever say “clinically reviewed” when a named reviewer, their professional register and the date of review appear on it. No page carries those words yet. Clinicians, practitioners and researchers who want to review pages in their field can join the Expert Panel.

Corrections and challenge.

If a card is wrong, or you can point us to a better source, write to admin@remedae.app. We update the page and log the change against the source. Nothing is quietly rewritten. Researchers who want to critique the method itself are welcome; that is what this page is for.

Remedae is a library, not a clinic. Nothing on it is medical advice. Read the educational scope.