How Our Health Content is Created

The Health Corner describes home remedies that many of us know from home: honey for cough, onion syrup, chamomile, cupping. Here we explain who writes these pages, where we get our information, and what you will not find on them.

Who Writes

The Health Corner pages are prepared by a small team from informacja.com. When searching for and summarizing sources, we use artificial intelligence tools, but each specific claim (number, research result, warning) is verified against the source from which it comes. If something cannot be confirmed, we do not write it.

None of us are doctors, pharmacists, or herbalists. We do not assess whether a remedy will work for a specific person. We describe what is known from research and what public health institutions recommend.

Readers can also suggest their own page about a home remedy through the Add a Guide form. Such a page is published only after being verified by the editorial team, with the author's signature. It is subject to the same rules (below: "What We Do Not Publish"), and the evidence label is assigned by the editorial team, not the author.

Where We Get Information

• Public health institutions: the American NCCIH (a National Institutes of Health institute focused on complementary medicine), the British NHS, the American CDC and FDA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which prepares evaluations of medicinal plants.
• Research reviews: primarily Cochrane reviews, an independent network of researchers that collects and compares results from many studies on a single topic. Additionally, systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in scientific journals.
• Individual studies only when they provide important data, such as information about accidents and burns.

We do not rely on blogs, shops, forums, or advertisements. The layout of the page is modeled after the "Herbs at a Glance" series from the NCCIH: briefly, what it is, what research says, what the risks are.

What a Remedy Page Looks Like

Each page has the same layout:

1. Where it comes from: a brief history.
2. What we know: evidence label (below).
3. What research says: who studied it, what type of study, and what the results were.
4. Safety: risks, who should not use the remedy, interactions with medications.
5. When to see a doctor: symptoms for which self-treatment is not advisable.
6. Sources: a list with links so everyone can verify.

Under the title, we provide the date of verification and the date of the next review. Research and recommendations change, so we review the pages at least once a year.

Evidence Labels

The label is assigned by the editorial team after reading the sources. It is not assigned by the author of the entry or the reader.

The label indicates what is known from research. Even a remedy with the label "Confirmed by Research" can be harmful to someone, so the Safety section should always be read.

What We Do Not Publish

• dosages of medications and herbs,
• encouragement to discontinue or change medications,
• "treatments" for cancer and other serious diseases with home remedies,
• advice for infants, pregnant women, and emergencies (we only provide warnings),
• anti-vaccine content,
• instructions for using harmful substances (e.g., MMS, turpentine, fuels),
• instructions for dangerous methods, such as fire cupping with flammable liquid,
• brand names, advertisements, and links to stores.

Reader Experiences

Under the remedy pages, readers can briefly describe their own experiences: what problem they used the remedy for, what they did, what the effect was, and whether they spoke with a doctor or pharmacist.

• Each entry is verified before publication. Entries with dosages, encouragement to discontinue medications, treatment of serious diseases, or about someone else's health are rejected.
• Each entry includes the note "Personal opinion of the author, not verified by a doctor."
• We do not collect locations or postal codes with these entries. Anonymity is also allowed.
• Under each page, comments can also be added: opinions, doubts, or reservations about the text. The same rules apply to comments, and comments from new users are verified before publication.

How to Report an Error or Dangerous Entry

• Under each entry and on each page, there is a link "Report Content." Choose the reason "Dangerous Advice (Health)." An entry reported this way will be removed from the page until the moderator makes a decision.
• You can also report an editorial error via email at kontakt@informacja.com. Please specify which sentence is incorrect and, if possible, provide the source.

Sources

Developed by the editorial team of informacja.com. Status as of October 24, 2026. This is not medical advice.