Primary bulk index: WCUPS 2020
The base index is the World Checklist of Useful Plant Species, produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The complete checklist is bundled and imported—not only the medicinal subset.
Fields retained from every checklist record
The import preserves kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, scientific name, scientific authorship, IPNI or external name identifier, all reported use-category flags, crop-wild-relative status and contributing source codes.
The public index opens with all 40,292 useful taxa. The scope selector can narrow the view to the 26,662 medicinal records or combine that scope with food, materials, environmental, fuel, gene-source, animal-food, invertebrate-food, poison and social-use filters.
What a documented-use flag means
A use flag means that at least one contributing source reports that category for the taxon. It is an indexing statement—not proof of clinical effectiveness, a safe dose, or suitability for self-treatment. Plants can carry several flags simultaneously, including both food and poison.
Separate enrichment layers
Common names, aliases, accepted-name matching, synonyms, vernacular names, GBIF identifiers and Wikidata identifiers are stored separately from the original WCUPS record. Open image metadata is stored only when licence and attribution data are available. Enrichment never overwrites the preserved source row.
Medicinal naming reference
Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Services is used as an authoritative research reference for medicinal nomenclature and name ambiguity. Its portal is not scraped wholesale into this project. The distributable bulk baseline remains the explicitly licensed WCUPS dataset, with controlled GBIF and Wikidata enrichment.
Required dataset citation
Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black, N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro, C., Carretero, J., Eastwood, R., Hargreaves, S., Hudson, A., Milliken, W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R. & Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
The dataset is reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Holistic Healing Tips is an independent project and is not endorsed by the source institutions.
Article research sources remain internal
Botanical dataset attribution belongs to the herbarium and methodology pages. It does not reintroduce crawler source-site names or raw “Research inputs” on public article pages.