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The Yin Wood Snake year winds in softly, asking us to move with quiet purpose. In a world obsessed with doing, this is a year for tending, composting, and deliberate growth. Wisdom won’t shout—it will whisper. And if you listen, you just might hear your own transformation beginning.
Read more →The Wood Dragon year is expansive and creative, filled with potential. But power must be used wisely—Hexagrams Qián and Dà Zhuàng remind us that vision without grounding can become force without direction.
Read more →The Yang Water Tiger is a stark departure from the Yin Metal Ox. Learn how this new lunar year is likely to shape up!
Read more →The Yin Water Rabbit year invites quiet discernment and careful pacing. It’s a time to tend what’s unresolved, listen deeply, and recognize that subtle shifts may carry more power than grand gestures.
Read more →The combination of Yin, Metal, and the Year of the Ox create an opportunity to learn from the past year and apply that reflective wisdom toward recovery and rebuilding.
Read more →Listen in as Travis Kern talks with Stacey Whitcomb, host of the acusprout podcast, about founding Root & Branch and its mission to provide herbs for practitioners all across the country.
Read more →A message from practitioner Travis Kern, LAc about the intersection between Covid-19 and natural remedies marketed as preventative or curative: There are a lot of people out there promising a lot of things. Health and illness prevention have gotten political in a lot of corners. But you can navigate this situation to the best outcomes for you and your family.
Read more →Root & Branch is excited to begin seeing patients in-person again. We’ve had to put some new procedures in place but we are ready to be able to serve you again. Learn about the new policies and procedures we have implemented to reopen our clinic
Read more →There are a lot of inflammatory ways that we discuss health and well-being. This food is poison, that activity will kill you! Have you heard about such and such causes cancer?! The thing is, there are a lot of things out there that are less than helpful for optimal living but when the language gets too loud, too bombastic, and too crass, it often becomes misleading and then it makes it difficult t
Read more →Cooking herbs together allows their individual natures and flavors to blend together and enhance or subdue one another. This alchemy is the real power of Chinese herbal medicine and is almost entirely missing in most practitioner’s granule formulas. Remember that 汤 “tāng” means “soup” in mandarin and just like your chicken soup is not just the flavor or chicken and onion and celery but the marriag
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