I added a few hundred new pages on the weekend after valentines day. I also put Google Search on most of the pages to make the site easier to navigate. I’m working on some other upgrades to the site when I get a chance, and generating more pages.
Seems the blog-spammers would rather spend time trying to slip in a post than reading my warning - their futile attempts are a minor source of amusement for me.
Here’s how it works: you take time to write out your spam posts with links to sites that no one wants to visit. I delete them. In fact, they don’t even get posted without approval.
January, 2008.
Over 2000 total pages! I’m still running the old software to build the indexes, but I’ve also started on the version 2 software.
Shrubmed is an index of the PubMed research on herbs, spices, and other ‘natural’ treatments.
Shrubmed is the tool I always wanted; since it didn’t exist, I had to code it.
The SM index is very much a work in progress - and it is in the alpha stage right now. Even as you read this, a program is at work generating the next version.
I am opening a few threads for comments, as I need your feedback. I am getting close to a thousand diseases, conditions, and biochemical pathways, but I haven’t thought of everything. If you want me to run a query for some disease or condition that is of interest to you, post it on the thread called “Research Requests”.
That’s all for now,
Jonathan Byron, Ph.D.
If there is a disease, condition, or metabolic pathway that isn’t in the shrubmed index (but should be), let me know here. If my schedule isn’t too hectic, it might only take me a day or two to run the software to index that term and generate the page for it.
At this point, I can’t do individualized research on a disease that involves hours of reading and summarizing. Although I have done a lot of that in the past (particularly for cluster headaches, psoriasis, and hashimoto’s thyroiditis), I simply cannot respond to requests from all directions. But I am spending some time on improving Shrubmed, which should grow into a valuable resource over time.