I Built an Andean Medicinal Plant Identifier That Uses Traditional Knowledge + Modern Data

Traditional medicine in the Andes has been practiced for thousands of years. But when I tried to find a simple tool that could tell you "what is this plant used for?" with actual scientific backing — nothing existed. So I built one. The Problem There are over 28,000 species of vascular plants in the tropical Andes, and indigenous communities have documented uses for thousands of them. But this knowledge lives in three disconnected worlds: Ethnobotanical databases (scattered across academic papers) Clinical trial registries (PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov) Traditional healer knowledge (oral tradition, local pharmacopeias) A pharmacist in Lima who wants to know about uña de gato (cat's claw) has to cross-reference multiple sources manually. A patient asking "can I take maca with my blood pressure medication?" gets no answer from Google. What I Built An identifier and reference tool covering 250+ Andean and South American medicinal plants. Each entry includes: Taxonomy : scientific name, fami