Root & Branch’s Herbal Education Collection
Herb Research: Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang
We’re often asked if there’s evidence that that a formula “works.” While tradition gives us the answer, emerging pharmacology—like paeoniflorin’s calcium channel-blocking action— can add another layer of understanding.
Creating Ethical Price Structures
Set prices based on your actual costs and revenue needs—not imagined patient limits. Our system supports this by letting you add private markups on formulas, helping you earn income without managing a medicinary.
Understanding Xi Xin Dosage and Safety
We source Xì Xīn exclusively from trusted suppliers, verify every batch for aristolochic acid, and visually confirm plant parts—ensuring that what reaches your patients is safe, potent, and aligned with traditional use.
Herb Quality: The Cornerstone Of Effective Practice
At Root and Branch Medicinary, we maintain close relationships with trusted suppliers, ensuring that every herb we provide is carefully vetted, ethically sourced, and handled with the attention your patients deserve.
Herbal Research - Wind Heat Herbs
Modern studies increasingly explore the antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties of herbs found in wind-heat formulas like Yīn Qiáo Sǎn, offering additional context for their use—even as traditional pattern diagnosis remains our most reliable clinical guide.
Understanding Decoction Service: The "must-knows" about our cooking process
Get the details on R&B’s decoction process and how it can improve patient compliance
My (Terrifying) Start To Practicing Herbal Medicine
My terrifying start to herbal practice as an East Asian Medicine practitioner.
The Herbal Pharmacy Process: Steps to maximize you and your patients' experience at Root & Branch
Working together to make sure that you and your patients get what you all need from our pharmacy.
Refills: Strategies to Keep your Patient's taking their Medicine
Using HerbaScript’s™ system to ensure the smooth flow of refills for your patients with less hassle for you and them.
Creating Efficiencies: Using your Herbascript™ settings to make cooking bulk herbs easier
Use the many different settings in HerbaScript™ to make writing formulas faster and with clearer instructions for your patients
Granule Herbs: Whole Formulas vs Single Herbs
Learning about how to use whole formula granules effectively to preserve the alchemy of your herbal prescriptions