Portable policy knowledge for local retrieval.
Medicinal Plants V5
Medicinal Plants V5 is a structured botanical medicine knowledge pack built for Knolo.
The pack contains 1,194 medicinal plant records organized for deterministic lexical retrieval and portable offline use.
Each plant record may include:
Scientific name
Common names
Botanical family
Traditional medicinal uses
Body-system tags
Plant parts used
Preparation forms
Key constituents
Evidence notes
Potency and caution notes
Retrieval keywords
Source record text
The source Markdown was converted into individual Knolo documents rather than stored as one large document. Each medicinal plant therefore has a stable document identity and can be retrieved independently.
Retrieval model
The pack is designed primarily for deterministic lexical retrieval.
This is particularly useful for queries involving:
Scientific plant names
Common plant names
Symptoms
Medicinal actions
Botanical families
Active constituents
Preparation methods
Body systems
Traditional uses
Semantic reranking is not required for the base pack.
Example queries
ginger nausea digestive
aloe burns skin
willow pain inflammation
peppermint indigestion
valerian sleep anxiety
plants traditionally used for cough
medicinal plants containing tannins
Asteraceae anti inflammatory plants
Intended uses
This pack can be used in:
Botanical reference systems
Ethnobotanical research
Herbal medicine research tools
Offline knowledge applications
Educational systems
Agent knowledge bases
Retrieval-augmented applications
Knolo-powered research assistants
Important data note
Traditional or ethnobotanical use does not automatically mean that a claimed medical effect has been clinically proven.
Historical claims relating to serious conditions are retained as source and retrieval metadata and should not be interpreted as validated medical treatments.
The pack should be used as a botanical knowledge and research resource rather than as a substitute for professional medical diagnosis or treatment.
Pack format
The corpus is built using the Knolo deterministic document ingestion path and migrated into the V5 Knowledge Image format.
Each plant is represented as an individual document under the medicinal-plants namespace.
Example stable identifier:
medicinal-plants:mp-0034:zingiber-officinale
This structure enables precise retrieval, traceability, and future incremental updates.
Intended use
Out of scope
Sources
- The primary ethnobotanical inventory is derived from the USDA Dr. Duke Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database and related structured public botanical datasets. ↗
- Additional reference material used during curation and enrichment includes authoritative botanical and herbal medicine resources such as: ↗
- USDA Dr. Duke Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database ↗
- Kew Medicinal Plant Names Services ↗
- European Medicines Agency herbal medicinal monographs ↗
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance ↗
- Published ethnobotanical literature and datasets ↗
- The source material was normalized into a retrieval-oriented schema containing scientific names, common names, botanical families, documented traditional uses, preparation references, system classifications, constituents, evidence annotations, and keywords. ↗
- Records explicitly representing poison-only, fatal, homicidal, suicidal, arrow-poison, or similar non-medicinal uses were excluded from the medicinal plant corpus. ↗
- Unresolved botanical placeholders such as unidentified sp. and spp. records were also excluded. ↗
- Where the underlying source did not provide a plant part, preparation method, dosage, constituent, or evidence classification, that information was not fabricated. ↗
- Attribution ↗
- Curated and packaged by Hive Forensics AI Inc. for the Knolo ecosystem. ↗
- Repository: ↗
- HiveForensics-AI/knolo-core ↗
- Pack: ↗
- hiveforensicsai/medicinal-plants-v5@0.1.0 ↗