Medical Safety & Evidence Rules

Purpose: Safety rules for writing health-related pages in a way that is useful without overstating claims.

Baseline rule

Do not present a protocol, remedy, food restriction, or parasite explanation as medical fact unless it is supported by reliable evidence. Use labels such as claim, working hypothesis, personal observation, and needs review.

When to seek medical care

Seek medical help for spreading infection, fever, severe pain, eye or genital involvement, open wounds, sudden swelling, breathing symptoms, symptoms in infants, pregnancy, immune suppression, or any reaction after ingesting a remedy.

Risky remedy rule

Safety note: Avoid publishing ingestion instructions for substances with known toxicity concerns. If a note includes oral use, keep it as a quoted claim to investigate and add a clinician/poison-control caution.

Evidence labels

• Established: supported by mainstream clinical sources.
• Plausible but incomplete: has a mechanism or limited evidence but is not settled.
• Personal observation: based on one person or household.
• Speculative: a hypothesis that needs stronger evidence.
• Safety concern: may be harmful, contaminated, or inappropriate for some people.