I Built a Pregnancy Herb Safety Checker Because LactMed Ignores Andean Plants

When my partner was pregnant, she wanted to keep drinking her muña tea — a common Andean mint used for digestion. I searched LactMed (NIH's lactation database). Nothing. I searched E-Lactancia. Nothing. I searched in Spanish. Still nothing. Muña (Minthostachys mollis) is consumed daily by millions of people in Peru and Bolivia. But if you're pregnant and want to know if it's safe, the English-speaking medical internet has no answer for you. So I built one. The Problem: 11 Million Searches, Zero Answers There are approximately 11 million monthly searches in Spanish related to herbal safety during pregnancy. Queries like "¿puedo tomar manzanilla embarazada?" (can I drink chamomile while pregnant?) get thousands of searches per month. For common herbs like chamomile or ginger, the answer exists — scattered across medical databases, mostly in English. But for Andean plants? Nothing: Plant Monthly searches (ES) In LactMed? In E-Lactancia? Maca 2,400+ No Partial Uña de Gato 1,800+ No Yes Muñ