Chinese Herbal Consults
What Is Chinese Herbal Medicine?
Personalized botanical medicine for modern life — in person or remote.
Chinese herbal medicine is one of the oldest continually practiced healing systems in the world. At its heart is the belief that your body has the capacity to heal when given the right support — not forced, but guided.
A Chinese Herbal Consult is a focused session where we explore your symptoms, patterns, and goals, then craft a formula tailored specifically to you. Herbs can be used as standalone care or integrated with acupuncture, bodywork, and lifestyle support.
What is our approach for you?
At Lumen Acupuncture and Light, Chinese herbal medicine is a way of restoring harmony to the body using the quiet intelligence of plants.
For thousands of years, these formulas have helped people return to balance — supporting the systems that become strained by stress, overwork, and the pace of modern life.
Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, Chinese herbal medicine looks at your whole pattern: how you sleep, digest, breathe, move, and respond to your daily world. From this understanding, a personalized formula is created to match your unique needs.
Herbs can support both acute concerns and long-standing conditions, and are especially effective for those navigating chronic stress, fatigue, digestive issues, emotional imbalance, or persistent symptoms that haven’t fully resolved.
Each formula is crafted with intention, using high-quality botanicals to help your body settle, repair, and return to its natural equilibrium.
“Health and wellness is an unfolding process. Every garden needs to be tended, in order to flourish.”
Terrain Medicine
Chinese herbal medicine works as terrain medicine—supporting the internal landscape of the body so healing can unfold naturally. Instead of chasing individual symptoms, herbs access the deeper layers within the body: chronic, old gunk that is no longer needed. As we begin to remediate the tissues and regions of the body, we can then begin to nourish, support and tonify what is needed.
We can begin to regulate sleep, digestion, immunity, hormones, and emotional balance. When the terrain is tended—when circulation improves, stress patterns soften, and the organs function more effectively — the body shifts out of survival mode and back into its inherent capacity to heal.
Herbs don’t just fix a problem; they cultivate the conditions where wellness becomes the natural outcome.
Benefits of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Improves Organ Function
Boosts Immunity
Restores Hormone Balance
Decreases Overall Inflammation
Optimizes Recovery
Natural, Safe, and Effective
Whole Body Support
Calms Nervous System
Restores Harmony Within
Five Stage Approach:
Address Wind
latent pathogens, viruses, old flu-like symptoms, tremors, neuralgia, rashes, skin, fevers, etc.
Address Damp
fluid body, water metabolism, edema, puffiness, inflammation, stagnation, heaviness, headaches, pressure, digestion, loose stools, gynecology, fibroids + cysts, joint pain, etc.
Address Qi Stagnation
Menstrual Cycle, gynecology, irritability, emotional terrain, anger, outbursts, headaches, blood pressure, anxiety, feeling stuck, unprocessed trauma, digestion, bowel movements, etc.
Address Blood Stasis
Chronic pain, skin disorders, gynecology, neuropathy, cardiac conditions, arrhythmia, inflammation, mental clarity, foggy head, headaches, TBI, etc.
Tonification
Qi: low energy, lethargy, slow digestion, reduced vitality, disconnected, depressed, sluggish
Blood: anemia, low energy, pale, slow to mend, reduced menstruation, nerve pain, connective tissue repair, insomnia, frequent waking, overthinking, anxiety, etc.
Yin Fluids: dryness, frail, aging, insomnia, gynecology, manic, stressed,
Yang Qi: depleated, lacking vitality, stamina, libido, motivation, organ function
Let me be your guide
In our work together, I serve as your guide through the natural stages of herbal healing.
We begin by clearing what doesn’t belong—Wind and Damp. We also address Qi stagnation, and the lack of flow that can build up in the body.
Many of these are the excesses that disrupt sleep, mood, digestion, and well being.
Once the path is clear, we move into regulating the deeper layers of the body, depending on what comes up in your process.
Tending to the Qi and the Blood, we support circulation, deep rooted stuckness, and even emotional steadiness.
From there, we nourish what has been depleted: gently tonifying the system so your body can rebuild strength and resiliency. Every step is intentional and tailored, meeting you exactly where you are.
My role is to help you navigate this process with clarity and confidence, ensuring you feel supported as your body returns to balance.
Good Things Take Time
Are you ready to commit to yourself, your family, and—most importantly—your body?
In Chinese herbal medicine, meaningful change is a process. Good things take time because the body heals in layers. Herbs are taken daily, usually as a tea or in capsule form, creating steady, cumulative shifts. As your system responds, your formulas evolve with you. I adjust each prescription based on your presentation, your pattern, and what your body is asking for in real time. Together, we move through the stages—clearing, regulating, nourishing—allowing your system to reorganize itself from the inside out.
Chinese herbs are a powerful, essential part of your return to health, vitality, and your most aligned Self.
If you’re ready to begin this journey, schedule your herbal consult and let’s start the work together.