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

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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

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