Herbal infusions are highly concentrated herbal tea - made with more herbs and steeped longer than your typical cup of tea. They occupy the space between food and medicine. Unlike traditional teas, which steep for just a few minutes, herbal infusions require a longer steeping time, allowing for a more profound extraction of nutrients from the herbs.

In functional medicine, we spend a lot of time talking about inflammation - as a common factor in many disease processes. Chronic inflammation tends to generalize, to move beyond the bounds of a cell, a tissue, an organ, or an individual body to travel amongst families, groups of people, and communities.

How might we expand the work done by the Functional Medicine Model, applying its system and analysis not just to the complex stories of the antecedents, triggers, and mediators of individual disease but to the story of societal dis-ease and dysregulation? To tell a motivating story that activates and inspires action...

Even considering the sustainability of herbal medicines is a relatively new perspective for many. But sustainable how? Sustainability has many facets - cultural, ecological, and economic.