Blog: Traditional Chinese Medicine

As medical professionals, co-founder Ingrid Bauer (MD) and I regularly create special herbal remedies tailored to the specific needs of our patients, our family members, or ourselves. Formulation flex … read more

When Ben and I founded Five Flavors Herbs, our mission was to improve the health of our patients, customers, and the planet by trusting the wisdom of nature. Raised on an organic farm, I worked in a … read more

Humans have used plants for medicine for all recorded history (and most certainly earlier), harvesting botanicals from their bio-region or perhaps trading with neighboring peoples. Over time, the trad … read more

This summer, many of us are trying out traveling for the first time in a long while. Whether you are going by air, sea, or land, to foreign or domestic locations, roughing it or going luxe, leaving … read more

Herbalism was  humankind’s first medicine option. But when “Big Pharma” was born, the business interests behind it got to work discrediting herbal remedies, recasting them as “snake oil,” or … read more