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I Built an Andean Plant Quiz That Recommends Medicinal Herbs Based on Your Health Profile

I Built an Andean Plant Quiz That Recommends Medicinal Herbs Based on Your Health Profile

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Have you ever wondered which Andean medicinal plant might help with your specific health concern? I built a free interactive quiz that recommends plants like maca, uña de gato, or muña based on your lifestyle and needs. Why I Built This I work on Botánica Andina , an evidence-based encyclopedia of Andean medicinal herbs. We already had a herb-drug interaction checker that cross-references 503+ documented interactions — but users kept asking: "Which plant should I actually try?" The problem is that most "which supplement should I take" quizzes are thinly disguised product pages. I wanted to build something that: Recommends based on published research , not marketing Links to actual PubMed studies for every recommendation Warns about contraindications (not just benefits) Works entirely client-side — no data collection, no tracking How It Works The quiz asks 7 questions about: Your primary health goal (energy, immunity, digestion, stress, etc.) Current medications (to flag interactions) D

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