Wei Qi: The Invisible Protective Barrier - Root + Bones

Wei Qi: The Invisible Protective Barrier

Wei Qi: The Invisible Protective Barrier Β  Recently we highlighted some tonic herb recommendations to support the body in the transition from Spring to Summer, and it struck us that the selections we shared (Astragalus,...
Nurturing Radiant Health from Spring to Summer - Root + Bones

Nurturing Radiant Health from Spring to Summer

Traditional Chinese Medicine can aptly be understood as the art of radiant health – a state of optimal well-being and vitality founded upon balance in the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. Thus, the cultivation of...
Tonic Herbs, Di Tao, and Ethical Wildcrafting: Spotlight on Chaga - Root + Bones

Tonic Herbs, Di Tao, and Ethical Wildcrafting: Spotlight on Chaga

Herbalism is finally beginning to gain more credibility in the West, although this interest is increasingly capitalized upon through a booming wellness industry that has quickly become defined by gimmicky marketing, misleading claims, and a...
Interview with Victoria Jewel - Root + Bones

Interview with Victoria Jewel

Victoria Jewel (@jewelwellness) is a licensed Esthetician and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who approaches skincare through a root cause lens, teaching about ways to support our innate capacity for a sense of vitality that radiates outward....
Schizandra for the Transition to Spring - Root + Bones

Schizandra for the Transition to Spring

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers a framework to understand our place in the web of life, drawing connections between Earth and the body’s life force that can be seen as a magnificent and all-encompassing dance. The...
Black Sesame Latte to Nourish Yin - Root + Bones

Black Sesame Latte to Nourish Yin

The season of winter is the peak of the Yin energetic essence, which can be understood as restorative, slow, inward-moving, fertile, and feminine. Of course, Yin is conceived of in relation to Yang, and a...
TCM perspective on Autoimmunity & Medicinal Mushrooms - Root + Bones

TCM perspective on Autoimmunity & Medicinal Mushrooms

Autoimmune conditions have been steadily rising in the modern era, beckoning us as a collective to deepen our understandings of the body and explore both novel and ancient approaches to healing. From a Western medicine...