Traditional Naturopath &
Clinical Herbalist
Where traditional medicine meets drug discovery.
Dr. Lakisha®, Traditional Naturopath, Clinical Herbalist, and research scientist, carrying botanical medicine from the healing traditions it comes from to the standard of modern evidence.
Founder & President,
Kiona Foundation
Kiona Foundation
Principal Investigator,
ECS Research
ECS Research
UN ECOSOC Representative,
EABICCS
EABICCS
Chair,
TGR Holdings
TGR Holdings
Welcome
Meet Dr. Lakisha.
An introduction, and a gift: The Living Materia Medica, free.
The Work
A global botanical research and healing ecosystem.
Rooted in pharmacognosy, endogenous cannabinoid system science, novel botanical drug discovery, and community-generated evidence. The work moves from the laboratory to the field to the people it is meant to serve, and treats Cannabis and psychedelics as case studies within one botanical and natural-medicine science.
Three Thresholds
Three ways in, three levels of access.
The work opens in thresholds. The first is open to everyone. The second is held for members. The third is by invitation only.
New here? Start with Open Access. It is the public work, open to all.
Salt
Open Access
Dr. Lakisha®
The public professional profile. Research and the KF-ECS-2025 study, the pharmacognosy and FDA Botanical Drug Development framing, policy work, the United Nations through EABICCS, consulting and speaking. Everything in public knowledge. Open to everyone.
Enter the public work Sulfur MembershipThe Alkemist Mother
The origin arc. Grief, loss, and the transmutation of both into the work. Grief-informed writing, mentorship, and the fuller story, opened through membership.
About membership Mercury By InvitationThe Dutchess
The most private threshold. Spiritual work and closed circles, held by invitation only.
Request access“She has known the death of a child and built rather than broke. She made grief into infrastructure.The Work Behind the Foundation
Where traditional medicine meets drug discovery.
You architect the questions worth asking. The research, the writing, and the collaborations follow from there.