Energy Mapping

Explore your unique energy patterns through a one-on-one consultation with an accredited herbalist, then create a custom herbal blend from our selection of 40 USDA certified organic and third-party tested herbs — through the hands-on process of weighing, grinding, brewing, and packing. You will bring home insights about your well-being through the lens of Chinese healing traditions.

Step 1: The Observation
Your session begins with a visual tongue assessment by a Silver Root herbalist, a traditional observational practice used in Chinese herbal culture for centuries, used alongside other inputs to understand your unique energy pattern.

Step 2: Decipher Your Energy Pattern
Your herbalist walks you through a well-being questionnaire, learning about your daily rhythms — sleep, digestion, energy levels, mood, and more. The information gathered helps your herbalist build a complete picture of where your energy is right now.

Step 3: Your Unique Blend
Your herbalist hand-selects a combination of dried herbs chosen specifically for you. As each herb is selected, they share its origin and its place in Chinese herbal tradition, so you leave understanding not just what is in your blend, but why.

Step 4: Taste Your Blend
A pot of freshly brewed organic herbal tea made from your custom blend is prepared for you to enjoy at the bar.

Step 5: Come Back Anytime
Following traditional ways, you are encouraged to visit us again for follow up appointments or simply come in to enjoy a pot of your unique herb blend at any time. We want to continue to support your well-being while we are here.

For the first time, Silver Root Apothecary, which is driven by its mission for TCM education and a team of Chinese females with diverse backgrounds, has arrived outside of China, landing right in the heart of NYC's SoHo. While this is a sensory experience, we treat TCM with deep reverence at every step, from herb selection, to staff training, to our consultation with you.

While most modern TCM clinics and hospitals consultations last barely 10 minutes, ours is designed to go far deeper to encourage long-lasting behavioral changes and actionable insights rooted in TCM.

We source all-certified-organic Dao Di herbs, a rarity even within China and nearly impossible to find in New York.

The majority of our tools, jars, and vessels were handpicked intentionally in China with sustainability in mind.

TCM approaches the body as an interconnected system — Qi, Yin-Yang balance, and the Five Phases form a framework for understanding how symptoms relate to underlying patterns rather than isolated causes. It is one of the oldest continuously practiced medical traditions, and one that modern research is increasingly in conversation with.

Contemporary studies suggest TCM herbs work through multi-target biological pathways — anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neuroendocrine — producing effects that are difficult to replicate with single-compound interventions. The mechanisms are still being mapped, but the clinical tradition behind them is long and well-documented.

Located in a historical neighborhood in Shanghai, Silver Root Apothecary is an east-meets-west food therapy studio focused on the concepts of “food as medicine,” Chinese healing philosophy, and holistic natural living. Created by registered dietitian, food therapist, and a Shanghai native, Zoey Xinyi Gong, Silver Root offers a wide range of cooking classes, wellness workshops, nutrition consultations, TCM treatments, creative cultural events, and highly curated products that are designed to provide the tools and knowledge for selfcare and healing.