Sources Policy
GramLeafCo aims to publish herbal information that is useful to readers, cautious in its framing, and transparent about where supporting information comes from. This page explains how we handle sources and what readers should expect from our journal and herbal education content.
What we prioritize
- Primary botanical references for plant identity, naming, and distribution.
- Authoritative safety sources when articles touch dosing, sensitivities, or caution points.
- Credible educational medical references when a reader question overlaps with common health searches.
- Practical tea-preparation guidance that helps readers brew, strain, and store herbs more successfully.
What we avoid
- Miracle-claim language or unsupported medical promises.
- Copying consensus-free health claims from low-quality herbal blogs.
- Using one source as if it proves broad efficacy by itself.
- Presenting educational herb content as a substitute for individualized medical care.
Reference types you may see across the site
Used for plant naming, identification context, distribution, and botany. Examples include USDA Plants, Kew Plants of the World Online, Missouri Botanical Garden, and extension resources.
Used where readers are asking about cautions, general herb-use principles, or when a topic overlaps with sensitive situations such as pregnancy, medication use, or chronic conditions.
Used to support practical brewing, drying, filtration, and storage habits that keep tea cleaner and more consistent in real use.
Articles may also reflect in-house testing around cup clarity, strainability, storage behavior, and the product-experience side of working with mullein leaf. Those observations are not medical evidence.
How external links are presented
When we cite outside sources in the journal, those links are marked as external and open in a new tab. That makes it easier for readers to check the original source without losing their place on GramLeafCo.
How updates work
We revise articles when a page is too thin, when reader questions reveal that an answer is incomplete, when better internal links would improve navigation, or when a source set needs to be strengthened. Articles are built to become more useful over time, not to stay frozen after the first draft.