Herbal Care Membership
Simple. Effective. Individually Formulated.
Personalized to support whole-body balance & lasting relief.
What Herbal Medicine Can Do for You
Herbal medicine can help your body:
• Reduce inflammation: Calms chronic low‑grade inflammation that contributes to pain, hormonal imbalance, digestive irritation, and autoimmune flares.
• Clear internal heat and irritation: Helps with symptoms like hot flashes, migraines, irritability, skin flare‑ups, and inflammatory digestive issues.
• Improve blood flow and microcirculation: Supports menstrual regularity, fertility, tissue healing, pelvic congestion, and chronic pain conditions.
• Regulate hormones: naturally Helps smooth menstrual cycles, ease PMS, support ovulation, and reduce menopausal symptoms.
• Strengthen digestion and elimination: Reduces bloating, gas, IBS patterns, diarrhea, constipation, and acid reflux by improving digestive motility and gut resilience.
• Support bone and joint health: Nourishes tendons, ligaments, and bone metabolism — helpful for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic musculoskeletal pain.
• Calm the nervous system: Supports sleep, reduces stress reactivity, and helps regulate mood and emotional steadiness.
• Restore fluid balance: Addresses dryness, swelling, edema, and fluid retention by supporting healthy fluid metabolism.
• Improve muscle tension and tensegrity: Helps reduce spasms, tightness, pelvic floor tension, and chronic holding patterns.
Common Conditions Supported with Herbal Medicine
Customized formulas can help with many chronic or recurring conditions, including:
• Women’s health & fertility: infertility, irregular cycles, PMS, PCOS, endometriosis, painful periods, menopause
• Digestive & abdominal: IBS, GERD, constipation, diarrhea, bloating, abdominal pain
• Pain & inflammation: migraines, headaches, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic muscle tension
• Other chronic conditions: fatigue, stress, sleep disturbances, autoimmune patterns, low immunity
How Your Herbal Diagnosis Works
A different diagnostic system than acupuncture.
Herbal medicine requires a deeper, more detailed assessment than acupuncture.
Where acupuncture can be assessed quickly, herbal formulas must be matched precisely to your internal pattern.
Your diagnostic visit includes:
Tongue assessment — color, coating, shape, moisture
Pulse assessment — depth, strength, quality
Abdominal palpation — tension, temperature, tenderness
Symptom pattern review — digestion, sleep, hormones, stress
Seasonal and constitutional factors — how your body responds to climate, stress, and change
Why this matters.
Herbal formulas only work when they match your pattern.
This diagnostic process ensures your formula is:
- accurate
- safe
- effective
- tailored to your body’s needs
- adjusted as your condition changes
Customized Herbal Formulas
Instead of treating a long list of symptoms separately, I look for the pattern underneath them — the root imbalance that is creating the symptoms you’re experiencing.
This pattern‑based approach allows one well‑designed formula to support multiple areas at once, without overwhelming your system.
Start with what matters most.
I begin by clarifying your top concerns:
What is your #1 chief complaint?
What is your #2 priority?
How are these symptoms affecting your daily life?
This keeps your treatment focused, meaningful, and manageable.
Identify your internal pattern.
Your symptoms, tongue, pulse, abdomen, and health history all point toward a specific internal “climate,” such as:
Qi deficiency — fatigue, low resilience
Yin deficiency — dryness, heat, poor sleep
Qi stagnation — stress, tension, irritability
Phlegm/damp — congestion, fogginess, heaviness
Blood stasis — fixed pain, poor circulation
Yang deficiency — coldness, low metabolism
This pattern is the root of your symptoms.
Build one clear, focused formula.
From there, I choose one base formula that matches your pattern, then:
add 2–4 targeted herbs for your main symptoms
include harmonizing herbs to protect digestion and support absorption
This keeps your formula:
simple
effective
easier to tolerate
easy to adjust as you improve
Treating the pattern, not just the symptoms
Even if you come in with several concerns—like menopause symptoms, sleep issues, anxiety, digestive changes, brain fog, or joint pain—
they often stem from one or two underlying patterns.
When we treat the root pattern, multiple symptoms can improve at the same time, without needing multiple formulas at once.
Your formula evolves as you do
As your symptoms shift, your formula shifts with you.
We adjust it at each visit so it stays aligned with your current needs.
What’s Included in Your Herbal Care Membership
Two in‑person diagnostic visits each month
Each visit includes tongue, pulse, abdominal assessment, and a review of your current symptoms so your formula stays aligned with your body’s needs.
Monthly customized herbal formula (2 × 100g bags)
Your formula is tailored to your internal pattern and adjusted as your symptoms change.
Most patients take 2-3 scoops twice daily.
Formula adjustments at every visit
Your formula evolves as you do.
As your symptoms shift, your herbs shift with you — keeping your treatment precise and effective.
Support for multiple concerns at once
Because we treat the root pattern, one formula can support several areas at the same time (sleep, digestion, hormones, stress, pain, etc.).
Clear, simple treatment plan
No overwhelm.
No juggling multiple supplements.
Just one well‑designed formula that matches your pattern.
Flexible 4‑month therapeutic cycle
Herbal medicine works best when taken consistently.
This membership is structured as a 4‑month cycle to support meaningful internal change.
Who This Membership is For
This membership is ideal for people who want:
Support for chronic or recurring symptoms
Especially when symptoms come and go, shift with stress, or don’t fully resolve with supplements or one‑off treatments.
A simple, clear herbal plan
One formula, adjusted as needed — not a cabinet full of supplements.
A root‑cause approach
For those who want to understand why their symptoms are happening and treat the underlying pattern, not just the surface.
Gentle, non‑invasive support
Perfect for those who prefer natural, steady, body‑guided healing.
Help with stress‑related or multi‑system issues
Such as:
digestive changes
sleep issues
hormonal shifts
anxiety or irritability
brain fog
fatigue
chronic tension or pain
A structured, supportive healing rhythm
People who do best with consistent monthly visits and a formula that evolves with them.
Ready to Get Started
Your first step is a diagnostic herbal visit.
This visit allows me to assess your tongue, pulse, abdomen, symptoms, and internal pattern so I can design the right formula for you.
If it’s a good fit, we begin your 4‑month herbal cycle.
You’ll receive your customized formula and we’ll schedule your monthly follow‑up visits.
You’re welcome to ask questions before joining.
If you’re unsure whether this membership is right for you, I’m happy to help you determine the best next step.
Click below to schedule your first visit: (Choose New Patient as appointment type.)
For an Established patient choose appointment type: (Herbal Care Membership.)
Call or Text (858) 6130792
Contact the clinic to join or simply mention it at your next visit. Enrollment is completed through our secure clinical system, or
Use the bar code below:
Your Herbal Specialist
Dr. Michele Arnold studied Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, completing a rigorous four‑year medical program.
To practice in California, she passed the California Acupuncture Board examinations, which include herbal identification, formula construction, clinical diagnosis, and evidence‑based research.
With over 25 years of clinical experience, Dr. Arnold has devoted her career to the study and practice of herbal medicine — blending classical herbal theory with modern clinical insight to create safe, effective, personalized formulas for her patients.
I look forward to supporting you with this new option for ongoing herbal care.
Warmly,
Dr. Michele M. Arnold, DACM, L.Ac.
