The tool answers from a working herbal library.
HerbalMedicine.AI draws on Thomas Easley's 20-year clinical and teaching corpus and a growing history-of-medicine database. In History mode, an answer shows its source and the passage it came from.
The whole thing is one connected map.
Herbs (green), conditions (red), concepts and qualities (gold), and interventions, mapped by how they relate. Ask a question and the tool pulls from these connections.
Thomas's clinical and classroom material.
The education side draws from materia medica, protocols, condition notes, classroom explanations, formulation principles, and the qualities, actions, and effects framework Thomas uses when teaching herbal medicine.
So it can explain a plant, compare approaches, organize a formula idea, or help a student see why one herb fits a pattern better than another.
A history-of-medicine database behind the new mode.
History mode uses a separate historical database so older medical ideas stay in context. You can ask about Galen, Dioscorides, Eclectic physicians, or later medical writers and see where the answer came from.
The point is not to turn historical doctrine into modern instruction. It is to study what people held, how those ideas changed, and where useful distinctions still matter for herbal education.
History mode cites its sources.
Ask a historical question and the answer names the text it drew from, with the chapter and page, and quotes the passage. If you want to check a claim, the original wording is right there.
Clinical and teaching answers work differently. They come from Thomas's own materia medica and course material.