How this pilot was built, and what it can't do yet
One source. Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal: Project Gutenberg #49513, which is the 1850 Thomas Kelly edition. That edition says it adds "upwards of one hundred additional herbs" and doesn't mark which, so not every entry is guaranteed to be Culpeper's own 1653 text.
How the list was made. The complaint names come from the edition's own List of the Principal Diseases (149 headings, 393 herb references). Every herb entry's virtues were then searched for each complaint's phrase, and the matching sentence is quoted. 1850 index marks the pairs the editor listed. Planet rulers come from the project's rulership data, with the parser fix of 7 September 2026.
Latin names and places. Each herb's identification was proposed from Culpeper's description and then checked against GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility; about a fifth are marked for review. "Recorded in" a region means GBIF holds at least five occurrence records of that plant there: wild, garden or herbarium, from any origin. It says the plant is found there, not that it is native. Group entries (docks, roses, poppies) are placed by genus.
The planet chart. Each column compares the share of this complaint's herbs ruled by that planet (the bar) with its share across every herb in the concordance (the line). A planet is drawn dark when its share here is at least 1.5 times its share overall and it rules at least three of the herbs, and only for complaints with eight or more ruled herbs. Treat it as a lead, not a finding: Culpeper assigned both the planet and the use, so agreement inside his book isn't independent confirmation.
Checked. In a random draw of 20 passages, 18 were correct. The two misses were direction: Dwarf Elder "doth mightily procure vomitings" but shows under Vomiting (to stay), and Herb Robert stays bleeding but shows under Blood (to cleanse). The next build step is to capture the verb (provokes or stays) for every claim.
- Not yet: other traditions (the Chinese and Ayurvedic herbals on the drive), safety flags, native versus introduced status, and when each herb is in season.
- Quotes are verbatim except that line breaks are joined.