May 14, 2025
How Our Founding Patient Cohort is Shaping the Future of Chinese Herbal Medicine
We’re building something different in Chinese Herbal Medicine. And we’re doing it with you, not for you.
Our Founding Patient Cohort is a small group of real people (like you) who are getting early access to our platform and helping us make it better. Think of it as being part of the backstage crew for something that actually matters: a smarter, more transparent way to experience Chinese Herbal Medicine.
So what is this exactly?
If you're in the Founding Cohort, here's what you're getting:
Early access to our digital Chinese Herbal Medicine platform
Personalized herbal prescriptions, real support, no fluff
Occasional surveys to tell us what’s working (and what’s not)
A say in how we make this care delivery easier, clearer, and better for everyone
They are getting all the same care we’ll offer in the full version—just with a few more check-ins along the way. We’ll ask about symptoms, how they're feeling, how the herbs are working, and what could be improved.
And we’ll actually listen.
Why does this matter?
Chinese Herbal Medicine is rooted in thousands of years of case studies. But the way it’s delivered today? Kind of all over the place.
That’s where our Founding Patient Cohort comes in.
Their feedback helps us:
Improve the actual results people get
Make the jadewell experience easier to understand and stick with
Show that traditional medicine can be both effective and transparent while complementing Western care
No one wants to take something if they don’t know what it is, how it works, or whether it’s doing anything. Our Founding Patient Cohort is helping us build something better—where herbal prescriptions are personalized, results are tracked, and patients are treated like humans.
What makes jadewell different?
We’re not reinventing Chinese Herbal Medicine. We’re just making it make sense in the 21st century, with tools that meet you where you are, whether you’re new to herbs or already obsessed with red ginseng.
Here’s what we’re building (with your help):
A clean, guided way to explore Chinese Herbal Medicine, transparently in partnership with your physicians
Clear explanations of why each herb was chosen for you in your herbal prescription
Check-ins and symptom tracking that make you feel heard, not monitored
Real talk by our expert practitioners on what to expect, what’s working, and what might take time
Be prescribed medicine, not subscribed; we're not another subscription that bills you every month - you'll never be shipped your prescription until you check-in with your practitioner
Why did we start jadewell?
Our founder's partner is diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that messes with every system in his body. He takes more than 10 medications every day for pain, fatigue, body temperature dysregulation, IBS, migraines, and other not-so-fun symptoms. Growing up with Traditional Chinese Medicine, our founder saw it help people with various conditions from acne to fibromyalgia.
Most importantly, she'd seen it change people's quality of life. It changed her partner's life, helped him grow a business from scratch, and heal the relationship.
But the problem of accessing Chinese Herbal Medicine prescriptions is that it is too expensive for patients. More than 150 million people in the United States have a chronic condition. Over the past 4 years, the population of chronic pain patients have grown by 4%. We're in a silent health epidemic that trap patients in trial and error cycles of prescriptions that fail them.
There's a urge, a desperate cry from the general public for better, more affordable health care.
What’s next?
We’re just getting started. The platform will grow. The patient experience will evolve. And what we learn from you will help shape how this all works.
If you're interested in being part of the community, reserve your spot in our next cohort here.
Welcome to the jadewell family, we're lucky to have you.