Evidence-Based Herbalism from 31 Years in the Field
Meet The Herbalist
Welcome to my site! My journey into herbalism began in 1995 when I was 15 through the expert teachings of my Grandmother who was a Holistic Herbalist and Holistic Health Practitioner.
She awoke in me a life long passion to understand the bioactive compounds in herbs, how we can optimally extract and absorb them, and how those compounds interact with our physiology.
Where I differ from other herbalists is that I combine modern scientific research with traditional wisdom to find where they meet.
My herbal articles, newsletter, sourcing guide, and coaching are a distillation of my research, experimentation, and coaching.
My Credentials
~ Certified Holistic Health Practitioner
~ Master’s Degree in Nutrition
~ Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
~ Certified Holistic Herbalist
~ Certified Natural Chef
Herbal Articles
Every herb has a story. My articles are detailed, honest breakdowns of single herbs: what they've been used for across Western, Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Indigenous traditions, which bioactive compounds drive their effects, what the human research actually shows (and where the evidence is still thin), and the practical details that most guides skip — how to properly prepare each herb (tea, tincture, or oil infusion) so your body can actually absorb and benefit the bioactive compounds.
Alongside the single-herb profiles, you'll find guides organized around specific health goals such as herbs for acid reflux, herbs for testosterone, herbs for libido, and many others.
Everything here follows one rule: I'll always tell you how confident we can actually be. No miracle claims, no affiliate links steering the recommendations, just the same straight answers I give my herbal clients. Start with whichever herb or question brought you here, my library grows every week.
Herbal Newsletter
Join me as I adventure throughout North America researching, foraging, harvesting, and preparing wild herbs into remedies and recipes.
My weekly newsletter emails are deep dives on individual herbs and contain beautiful images from myself and members (send me your images and I will post them for all members to see!), their native habitat and where to forage, my personal and clinical experiences with the herb, exciting new scientific studies, and how cultures around the world have traditionally used and consumed the herb.
In addition, my posts also go into more depth on how we can use herbs and wild foraging to deepen our connection to our local bioregion and the planet as whole. Herbal medicine is not
Herbal Sourcing Guide
Knowing which herb you want to take is only a small portion of the work to get to the functional benefits you desire.
My Sourcing Guide exists to close that gap and helps you:
1. Choose the correct species of the herb by knowing it's specific scientific name.
2. Get the correct portion of the herb (i.e. leaf, root, berry, etc.) and choose the ideal type (i.e. white maca root vs black maca root).
3. Know how to properly prepare the herb to maximally extract the bioactive compounds (i.e. whether those compounds are water-soluble, alcohol-soluble, or fat-soluble(.
By matching the species, correct portion, and extraction type, with the herb you want to consume, you will actually get the results you are seeking. Get any of those wrong and the herb will provide no benefits or worse effects that you aren't seeking.
From there, I point you to specific, vetted sources : high-quality online suppliers I trust for each herb and preparation, and — where it applies — how and where the plant can be responsibly wild foraged if you'd rather gather your own. Each recommendation is matched to the compound you're actually after, so you're not guessing between a dozen products that look identical and perform nothing alike.
And here's the part that makes this guide different from nearly everything else online: there are no affiliate links. Not one. I earn nothing from any supplier I recommend, which means the only thing steering these picks is thirty-one years of learning what quality actually looks like. When I send you somewhere, it's because it's genuinely the best option I know — not because it pays me to say so.
© 2026 Tristan Anderson LLC
My Coaching is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.