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THE NON-DISCLAIMING DISCLAIMER
We are not a hospital, a pharmacy, a veterinary practice, or a licensing body.
We are people who went looking for knowledge that was written down, relied on for generations, and then quietly allowed to fall out of print. A good deal of what sits in this library is older than the industries that replaced it, and it kept households fed, warm, and well long before those industries existed.
The simple fact is that we don't disclaim what the library contains. We publish these texts because the knowledge in them worked, and because losing it would be the real risk.
The other simple fact is that knowledge doesn't do your thinking for you. What you make of it, and whether you're ready to, is yours to judge. If you use it well, we're glad. If you use it badly and go looking for someone to blame, look in the mirror.
The law requires that we tell you we are not providing medical, veterinary, legal, financial, or any other form of professional advice upon which you should or can rely.
So there, you've been told. Rely on it, don't rely on it, print it and ceremoniously burn it whilst toasting marshmallows. It's your choice and your responsibility. It always has been.
WITH GRATITUDE!
THIS IS THE OTHER DISCLAIMER. THE TYPE YOU'RE MOST LIKELY USED TO. YOUR CHOICE STILL WHICH ONE YOU WANT TO RELY ON; OR PERHAPS JUST BE ACCOUNTABLE AND RELY ON YOURSELF!
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Health, Food, and Practical Safety
A large part of the library is practical: remedies and preparations, food growing, preserving and canning, animal husbandry, sanitation, water, fire, tools, and off-grid systems. That material carries real, physical risk if it’s applied without judgement.
Plants and preparations act on the body, and acting on the body is never risk free. Some are unsuitable during pregnancy or breastfeeding, some interact with medication you may already be taking, some are unsafe for children or at doses appropriate for an adult, and some are dangerous if a plant is misidentified. Preserving and canning carry a genuine risk of food-borne illness when a method or a processing time is not followed properly. Livestock, power tools, fire, and structural work carry the risks they have always carried.
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If you’re unwell, pregnant, treating a child, managing a diagnosed condition, or taking prescribed medication, get advice that accounts for your own situation before you act. There are people who do this for a living, and the choice of whom to ask is yours: a herbalist, a naturopath, a nutritionist, a midwife, an acupuncturist, a practitioner of Ayurveda or of homeopathy, or a healthcare professional.
We publish this knowledge because we think you’re capable of using it. That is not the same as telling you it’s without consequence.
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Historical Texts Are Historical
Much of the library is old by design. That’s the point of it. It also means some texts contain methods, materials, or assumptions that have since been shown to be unsafe, or that relied on substances no longer available or no longer legal. We publish them as recovered knowledge, not as vetted instruction, and we edit for safety where we can. Read them with the same judgement you’d bring to any account written in another century.
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Last updated: 30 July 2026