Bitki Tabanı (“plant base” in Turkish) is an independent, non-commercial ethnobotanical record of plants used for healing and ritual across cultures. It aims to spark curiosity and to set traditional knowledge side by side with today’s science. The main edition is in Turkish; this is the English edition.
Edanaz Tınmazlar is an artist and herbalist. She left a white-collar life in search of healing and found herself trying to understand the singular world of plants. After travelling and living in many countries, she returned to Türkiye, making it her mission to understand her roots and share them.
Wikipedia, news sites, and pages of herb shops and supplement sellers are not used as sources.
Legal status is shown separately from safety: a plant can be poisonous without being illegal, and illegal without being poisonous.
Each entry is written by one person; at the moment no independent expert or pharmacist reviews them. That is why every claim is tied to a source listed at the bottom of the page, so any reader can check it. Medical information comes from official assessments (EMA, NCCIH) and systematic reviews; health claims without a source are not written. If a pharmacist or pharmacognosy expert joins as a reviewer, their name will be shown here and on the entries they review.
Traditional uses are described with the names and context of the communities that keep them alive, using specific names such as Shipibo or Huichol rather than generalisations. Sacred and ceremonial uses are recorded as culture, not as advice.
Bitki Tabanı sells nothing, carries no ads, uses no affiliate links and takes no money from any company. Corrections are welcome at iletisim@bitkitabani.com.