We’ve Got What You Need

01. Bulk Herbs
–Original

We source herbs from vendors guaranteeing authenticity of species and cleanliness of product to bring you more than 375 herbs in their whole plant, animal, and mineral form including some hard to find medicinals like Jī Nèi Jīn, Má Huáng, and Shuǐ Zhì

02. Granules
–Modern

Using the alchemy of herbs cooked together is often essential to lasting clinical results. We stock a broad array of whole formula granules that you can prescribe just like wide and ever-growing variety of single herb granules we keep in stock.

03. Patents
–Convenient

Sometimes a patient just wants to keep some Xiāo Yáo Sǎn teapills in the cabinet for when the inlaws are coming to town. We keep a small, curated selection of common patent teapills and pressed herb tablets to address common “on-the-fly” conditions.

04. Classics
–Handmade

Why take Li Zhong Wan as a decoction for 3 months when it was intended to be a pill in the first place? We hand-make a growing collection of classical honey pills (wán) and powders (sǎn) to get patients the medicine they need in the way it was intended.

Medicine for the people, by the people

Root & Branch Pharmacy is dedicated to the pursuit, creation, and distribution of quality medicine. We rely on the knowledge of our expert progenitors to shape the remedies we make today while also employing contemporary cooking, storing, and preservation methods to keep the medicine true to its roots but accessible for regular people.

We want to help you help your patients

Our pharmacy services are designed to provide you and your patients with diverse Chinese medicine offerings in bulk, granule, and patent forms. We create classical preparations by hand, we source our herbs from vendors and growers committed to cleanliness and potency, and we do our homework to make sure that what we are offering you and your patients is second-to-none. We want to help you to be the best practitioner you want to be and to make it easier for you to get there. Want a special topical oil for your eczema patients? How about a honey pill for those Kidney Deficient folks? Maybe Xiao Yao San as an actual powder used as it was meant to be used?

Decoction Service

For Portland, Oregon locals, we cook bulk herbs into herbal tea that is ready to drink. Patients walk out of the door with herbs packed to-go and ready to be stored in the fridge for up to 10 days. Doing this detailed work liberates patients to just take their medicine and not worry about cooking.

Pao Zhi - Unlocking the Power of BUlk Herbs

Why only build formulas with basic herbs when you can unlock the powerful complexity of individual herbs with special preparations like honey frying, dry roasting, salt frying. earth baking, and vinegar steaming. We do that too.

Whole Formula Granules

Like the convenience of granules but don’t love losing the power of herbs interacting in the cooking pot? No worries! We stock a large collection of whole formula granules from Evergreen Herbs that cooks a classic formula and then makes it into granules so you can get the potency of the original with the added convenience of an instant powder. You can even design your custom formulas to include several whole formulas, thinking of their mechanism of action as if they were single herbs.

Handmade Medicine

We take the idea of making good medicine seriously. Our lead pharmacist Travis Kern researches classical recipes and modern preparation methods from Chinese texts and then experiments in the pharmacy until he can reproduce the specificity and potency of those herbs and of that form of administration: steaming schisandra berries to build the sour flavor, hand shaping honey pills and even pounding ginger in a mortar and pestle because sometimes a blender just doesn’t make the same product.