Hi all! I'm Agy, and I'm really excited that you're here. Let me quickly introduce myself. I trained as a physician at Wrocław Medical University in Poland (MD, non-practicing). From there I moved into herbal medicine, earning my MSc in Herbal Medicine from the American College of Healthcare Sciences, where I'm now finishing up my DSc in Integrative Health. My clinical herbal training came from two beautiful schools, Heartstone Herbal School under Tammi Sweet, and Northern Appalachia School of Herbal Medicine, where I studied bioregional herbalism. I'm also published in the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, where I wrote about the gut microbiome across the lifespan and which herbs are supportive at each stage. I'm a research NERD. Like, full-on. I love everything about it. With my medical background I have a soft-spot for science, and I'm also very much in respect toward the different traditions of herbalism that came long before modern research caught up to them. My work here is to help bridge those two worlds. Body First. Plants Second. This community runs on that motto, and I want to explain what it actually means. One of the issues I've run into in the herbalism world is that so many people are learning, memorizing, and building relationships with plants and their actions without ever developing a core understanding of how the body works. In my opinion, this is backwards. To build a meaningful herbal practice, we have to understand how the body functions without the herbs first. Once we have that foundation, we can actually investigate what's off and choose herbs that support the body with real confidence. That's the whole project here. Community Architecture The Community Feed is where I'd love for all the buzz to happen. Each week I'll be dropping mechanism questions, anonymized case puzzles, materia medica discussions, and the occasional spicy preparation debate. Jump in, push back, share what you're working through, ask the messy questions. This is the room where the conversations happen.

Hi all! Think of this post as your map of the community. I'd love for you to read through it once so you know where everything lives and how each space is meant to be used, and feel free to bookmark it if you want to come back later. 📣 Announcements This one is admin-only, which just means it's me posting. Anything you need to know about platform updates, new module drops, or schedule shifts is going to land here, so if something feels different around the community, this is the room to check first. 👋 Start Here This is your orientation point, where the welcome post lives along with anything new members should read first. If you just walked in and you're not sure where to begin, the door is right here. 💬 General Discussion This is the catch-all room, the place for all the conversational, low-stakes, high-warmth stuff that doesn't need its own home. Tell us what's growing on your windowsill, what you're brewing on the stove, what you read this morning that lit you up, the random herbal thought you had in the shower at 7am. This is where we just hang out. 🧪 Case Discussions This is where we work through anonymized case puzzles together, and because we're talking about real human lives even when stripped of identifying details, there are a few ground rules I want to lay out so this room stays useful and ethical for everyone. - Every single case has to be fully anonymized, with no names and no identifying details that could connect the post back to a real person. - We're not diagnosing or prescribing for the person in the case. We're thinking out loud about clinical reasoning, asking what we'd want to know more about, and discussing which body systems we'd prioritize and why. - If you're bringing a case from your own practice, frame the question clearly so people know what kind of help you're looking for, whether that's a fresh perspective, a system to investigate, or just someone to think alongside you. Jump in even if you're newer to this kind of reasoning, because the whole point is to think out loud together, and that's how all of us get better.