Eric Brand

I have to say, I love working at Blue Poppy. We have a team of incredibly intelligent and benevolent people working together in a beautiful office overlooking the mountains, and the company feels like a family. Like many practitioners, I came to Chinese medicine because I truly enjoy helping people and making a difference, and no company embodies this holistic spirit quite like Blue Poppy. Even as a new TCM student, I knew that Blue Poppy was working to better the profession and the planet, but now that I work at Blue Poppy I have an even greater appreciation of the depth of this contribution.

Funding Research

The other day I wrote a brief blog about an authentication research project that we are working on. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Blue Poppy to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. Blue Poppy has no competing interest in the study (i.e., we don’t sell raw herbs); rather, we are funding the project purely because we know it will have a positive impact on the profession. Ultimately, educating practitioners about herbal safety will protect our scope of practice and allow us all to engage in progressively more advanced traditional and scientific arenas.

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