The collective's operational phase is over. Now we're focused on telling the story of what we did so that people can write their own stories. Carry forth our work just as we have carried forth the work of others before us. Keep each other healthy. Keep each other safe.

Hey there! Thanks for checking back and for building this project. The update is that The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is no longer in its operational phase. This means we're not in a position to vet or curate any more projects. BUT! You can start your own collective. It starts with a name:

The collective's operational phase is over. Now we're focused on telling the story of what we did so that people can write their own stories. Carry forth our work just as we have carried forth the work of others before us. Keep each other healthy. Keep each other safe.

Hey there! Thanks for checking back and for building this project. The update is that The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is no longer in its operational phase. This means we're not in a position to vet or curate any more projects. BUT! You can start your own collective. It starts with a name:

DIY 4 Lyfe, yo! ✊✊✊

... and using that, and the original source material we cite, you will be better-equipped to figure out how you'd like to proceed in the process of managing your own health. Do your own thinking. Don't let anyone else do it for you. Ever. Now go forth and rock it. -4TVC

Despite the fact that we lay out a lot of detail on a lot of things which one could merely try thoughtlessly, this is not the idea. The idea is that we might be able to shed some light on some things that are not well-known, ...

In some cases we will still have some tricks up our sleeves; in other cases we'll give you some context so you can make decisions as to whether you want to bite the bullet and get to a hospital, or go to a cave and drink hemlock.

This gets our fix rate up to about 94% In the event that that fails, you have something rare and difficult, and we will offer you tools and ideas to delve into what is the matter.

This involves a finer scale of differentiation of the symptom set. Once there is a narrowing down of possible situations, depending on which of the sub-categories you fall into, there will be a recommendation for a more targeted fix.

That section will then have a subsequent part dedicated to the cases in which the easy-fix fails.

Once you have completed that, it will point you toward the "Easy Fix" these tend to be broad strokes that will not diagnose the problem, but will tend to resolve roughly 80% of the cases of those symptom sets.