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 Protocol
ECS Research Protocol
UN ECOSOC Representative,
EABICCS
EABICCS
Chair,
TGR Holdings Inc.
TGR Holdings Inc.
Welcome
Meet Dr. Lakisha.
An introduction, and a gift: The Living Materia Medica, free.
The Work
A global botanical research and healing ecosystem.
Pharmacognosy connects knowledge of natural sources with modern botanical drug discovery. Dr. Lakisha brings that approach to research, formulation, scientific consulting and public policy. Cannabis is a botanical case study within the work. Psychedelic-related engagements require attention to the particular compound, evidence, community and regulatory context, not an assumption that every psychedelic is botanical.
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. Pharmacognosy, botanical drug discovery, the FDA development framework, scientific and policy consulting, public testimony, and research questions. The research page distinguishes the Foundation's prepared protocol from current approval, enrollment and results. 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.
Public testimony
At the FDA public hearing
Watch my September 14 testimony on the potential future therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, in the full official record.
Watch the testimonyFor continuing parents
Paralunae
When your child dies, your love and your parenthood do not end. Paralunae is a place for the parent you remain: words for what you are carrying, a gentle guide for the first days, and ways to reach human support. Come as you are, whenever you are ready.
Enter Paralunae