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Adrian Chang and Erin Wilkins
Traditional Chinese Medicine has a complicated history in the Bay. The practice itself can be traced back thousands of years, and has evolved over time but here in the US, it has a shorter history.
For a while, it was mainly kept within immigrant communities. But in 1974, a Chinese immigrant in Palo Alto named Miriam Lee was arrested and put on trial for practicing acupuncture even though she learned it from a master in her hometown in China. The trial culminated in acupuncture becoming legal in California.
Today, Traditional Chinese Medicine is still often exoticized or dismissed. But now, some Asian Americans in the Bay Area are reconnecting with these practices, and building new communities in the process.
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Erin Wilkins organizes herbs inside of her shop Herb Folk in Petaluma, Calif.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Herb Folk sells jars of broth herbs, which are also used in the virtual workshop.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Growing up, Adrian Chang spent a lot of time in his grandfather’s Chinese apothecary in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The small shop on Washington and Waverly streets, Superior Trading, closed two years ago, but Chang recalls the floor-to-ceiling drawers holding dried cicadas, twigs, berries, tangerine peels and even seahorses.