events
san fu tie // heavenly moxibustion
7/26/26
As part of Field Meridians Healing Clinic program, Dr. Sol will leas a workshop on San Fu Tie. Also known as Heavenly Moxibustion, it is a time-honored healing tradition dating back to the Qing Dynasty, practiced during the hottest days of summer when Yang energy reaches its fullest expression. Guided by the rhythms of the Chinese calendar and Daoist cosmology, this seasonal therapy embraces the wisdom that the warmth of summer can be used to transform the illnesses of winter.
planting medicine
gender-affirming traditional medicine, part 2
6/23/26
For Pride Month, hosts Emiliano Lemus and Violet Moon welcome Sol Meira Do Valle and Laurel Birch for a two-part roundtable discussion on traditional approaches to gender-affirming care. Dr. Sol (@soledad__soleil) is a doctor of East Asian Medicine based on Lenape land in Brooklyn; they are passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and move through pain, stress, life transitions, and gender affirming surgery with care. Laurel Birch (@msteabotanica) is a bioregional herbalist, artist, medicine maker and founder of Ms. Tea, residing on unceded Coast Miwok land.
Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Additionally hosted by Sam Roberts and Violet Moon.
Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
planting medicine
gender-affirming traditional medicine, part 1
6/16/26
For Pride Month, hosts Emiliano Lemus and Violet Moon welcome Sol Meira Do Valle and Laurel Birch for a two-part roundtable discussion on traditional approaches to gender-affirming care. Dr. Sol (@soledad__soleil) is a doctor of East Asian Medicine based on Lenape land in Brooklyn; they are passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and move through pain, stress, life transitions, and gender affirming surgery with care. Laurel Birch (@msteabotanica) is a bioregional herbalist, artist, medicine maker and founder of Ms. Tea, residing on unceded Coast Miwok land.
Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Additionally hosted by Sam Roberts and Violet Moon.
Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
heartsick
5/31/26
Join us for heartsick, a special TCM potion-crafting session with Dr. Sol Meira do Valle, part of our seasonal Healing Clinic hosted at ourtemenos .
HeartSick - that phase of grief that is deep in the chest and feels like pressure or empty or raw and vulnerable.
In Chinese Medicine, the Lungs and the Heart are deeply connected in navigating grief. Grief is processed primarily by the Lungs and because the Heart houses the mind and controls all of the mental activities, it is also deeply impacted by loss. The lungs are the root of qi, so if we are compromised for a long period of time, our qi can start to weaken, we could get sick.
Our formulation will include:
Whole pears, which nourish lung yin, help process grief, and protect from dryness.
He Huan Pi//Mimosa Bark, the tree of collective joy, who anchors the Shen. She relieves constraint, regulates the qi and soothes pain.
Huang Qi//Astragalus is a great tonifier, who boosts immune function, supports depleted energy, and generates fluids.
Ru Xiang//Frankincense and Mo Yao//Myrrh are a dui yao pairing that bring their magic to the blood to activate circulation and dispel stasis.
Suan Zao Ren//Sour Jujube Seeds treat insomnia, calm the spirit, nourish the blood.
We will arrange these and other herbs in a glycerine that will be both beautiful and sustaining, a gift for those around you experiencing grief and as a balm for ourselves when needed.
the remedy for fear is connection w/dollherbalism // ayelet
1/24/26
Herbal + TCM In Person Workshop for Organizers in NYC. Saturday 1/24 6:00-9:00 pm. North Brooklyn. Meant for anyone who is mobilizing in community or in person in New York. THE REMEDY FOR FEAR IS CONNECTION
It’s scary out there, my loves. In getting together to discuss a holistic health response to this moment, we sat with the different ways fear and nourishment are interconnected. We were struck with the questions: In what ways does fear impact the actions we take? In what ways does fear prevent us from being bold? How are we moving away from fear to a more sustainable north star? How do we transform fear into action in service of strengthening ourselves and our loved ones? In service of meeting this moment? In service of taking real material action?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. We are right now, in the northern hemisphere, in the depths of winter, the season associated with the water element. The emotion the water element is most tied to is, you guessed it — the emotion of fear. As each element is connected to all the other elements, every element has a corresponding one that remedies it’s excess, balances it out, tones it down, turns it down a notch. The element that does this for water is earth, the element associated with sweetness, nourishment, metabolism and - connection.
**THE REMEDY FOR FEAR IS CONNECTION. **
This is a hands on workshop meant for anyone showing up to this moment and looking for ways to metabolize fear to keep going. In it we will discuss the 5 phase element theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine, focusing on water and it’s balancer: earth. We will discuss some herbs associated with the earth element, sweetness, metabolism and the Spleen. We will learn to make some herbal preparations using water and glycerine, practice some aromatic abdominal massages, and strategize together how we can use these frameworks and remedies to keep turning fear into action.