Not medical advice. Sylva indexes traditional, fringe, and emerging remedies — including ideas mainstream medicine has rejected. Talk to a clinician before changing any treatment.

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The library

28 remedies, honestly labeled.

Every entry is tagged by tier of evidence — from controlled trials to folk tradition. Filter by ailment or search by name.

Clinical evidence

Berberine

Chinese & Ayurvedic herbalism

An alkaloid from goldenseal and barberry. Multiple meta-analyses show glucose and lipid lowering comparable to metformin.

DiabetesHeart disease
Clinical evidence

High-Dose Vitamin D3 + K2

Sunlight; modern megadosing — Cicero Coimbra, Brazil

Maintaining serum 25(OH)D above 50 ng/ml is associated with 25–40% lower cancer incidence. The Coimbra protocol uses much higher doses for autoimmune disease.

CancerInflammationDepressionHeart disease