What I love most about working with Adrienne is her extremely thorough and practical approach. She has a healthy respect for conventional Western medicine, and she is firmly rooted in data, science and results, not myths and trends. In other words, she’s never going to tell you to take an herb because Gwyneth Paltrow is obsessed with it. She’s going to tell you to take an herb after she talks to and interviews you in depth, gathering all of the information about your overall health and lifestyle that she needs, and only when the research clearly shows that the herb has worked for similar ailments in the past and that nothing about your particular situation would pose a problem. And if something in your particular situation would pose a problem, she will work tirelessly to find a substitution and come up with a custom formula just for you.

I presented Adrienne with a tricky scenario, because I am on a blood thinner that interacts with literally everything I ingest, including food and herbs. Yet I was desperately seeking a non-invasive remedy for the pain being caused by a ganglion cyst deep inside my wrist, and all the orthopedic doctors could offer me was steroid injections or surgery. I also experience constant minor injuries and aches and pains from some of the more extreme physical activities in which I participate, but I am not allowed to take anti-inflammatories like Advil because of the blood thinning medication.  So I gave Adrienne the additional task of finding me an “herbal Advil” that I could take on an as-needed basis to reduce inflammation and relieve pain, and that would be safe to take with the blood thinner.

Adrienne was definitely up for the challenge! As an attorney, I greatly appreciated her systematic methods and careful research.  She literally left no stone uncovered!  The pain from the cyst is now almost non-existent. I have yet to try my “herbal Advil” but I am so excited to have it in my medicine cabinet! Thank you, Adrienne!