New patients seeking an initial appointment are asked to book over the phone by calling (250) 336-8767.

Herbal Medicine

Our approach combines the latest scientific evidence in natural medicine with the long-standing traditional uses of botanical remedies to provides patients with a truly comprehensive roadmap towards wellness. While our clinical specialty is in collaborative cancer care, we are able to support individual with a wide range of health concerns. As part of your individualized protocol, you may be pr... Read More

Our approach combines the latest scientific evidence in natural medicine with the long-standing traditional uses of botanical remedies to provides patients with a truly comprehensive roadmap towards wellness. While our clinical specialty is in collaborative cancer care, we are able to support individual with a wide range of health concerns. As part of your individualized protocol, you may be prescribed various herbal preparations from our on-site dispensary, nutritional supplements available through a convenient online platform, and specific diet and lifestyle interventions to support your recovery. We can also order specialized testing for hormone imbalance, food-sensitivities, heavy-metal toxicity, and dysbiosis along with many other metabolic disorders


Business Consulting

With attention to detail and with holistic big picture thinking, I can guide you to ask the right questions, to create realistic development and production timelines, to understand the rules and regulations, and to manifest all the prices and parts required to bring your botanical or natural wellness business ideas soar


Clinical Mentoring

This service is offered to practitioners and students of herbal medicine looking for one-on-one clinical guidance and mentorship. With over 35 years experience as a medical herbalist, Chanchal is well equipped to provide you with the tools, expertise, and confidence needed to make sound clinical decisions and guide you in managing complex cases.


Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a gentle and effective approach to restoring balance to the body by adjusting tension across fascial planes. It has been shown to be effective for helping to manage side effects of conventional therapy, boosting immune function, and increasing body's natural capacity to fight cancer.


Student Clinic

I have over 30 years of clinical experience and have dedicated my entire career to helping people obtain optimal wellness with herbs, nutrition and other natural wellness practices. It is my mission to help you feel your best so you can live your best. I provide individualized and personalized attention to your health needs, and combine evidence based traditional medicine with modern science and research. I am committed to offering you a non-judgmental, compassionate environment in which healing can happen.

I practice an holistic approach which assumes that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and that the patient has an innate ability to heal, which it is my job to activate and support. In a consultation we will address issues of diet and nutrition, exercise, rest, play and laughter, prayer and spirituality. I encourage the client to create a healing team around themselves and I expect my clients to actively engage in the healing process and to fully participate with me in seeking optimal health and well being.

I do not practice ‘alternative’ medicine where patients have to choose one thing or another. I do not practice ‘complementary’ medicine where allopathic treatment leads and others take a lesser role. I practice collaborative medicine where a community of wellness professionals supports and sustains the patient in navigating all the complexity of illness and healing.

Although I will not diagnose you or prescribe drugs I can offer a thorough and in-depth discussion of your current health-related questions and concerns, including reviewing your health history and laboratory results, and help you to make sense of how you might bring a Collaborative Functional Wellness approach to your health and wellness goals. Collaboration also requires that the patient become part of the healing team. It is your responsibility to read all the materials I provide you, to ask for clarification or explanation where needed, and to implement as much as you can of all the things in the protocol.

I have over 30 years of clinical experience and have dedicated my entire career to helping people... Read More

Alina is a qualified medical herbalist with the BCHA and a registered acupuncturist with the CTCMA of BC. She completed over one thousand hours of clinical training in the Diploma of Phytotherapy and Diploma of Acupuncture programs at Pacific Rim College, where she graduated with the highest disctintion. Alina has been in clinical practice for over three years and is currently working under the mentorship of internationally-renowned medical herbalist, Chanchal Cabrera, RH (AGH).

Combining the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Herbalism with modern scientific research, Alina offers grounded, evidence-based support for individuals grappling with a range of health challenges and provides a comprehensive road map for bringing the body back into a state of wellness. Each client that Alina works with receives an individualized protocol that includes custom-formulated herbal remedies, supplement recommendations, and diet and lifestyle strategies for optimizing wellness and recovering the body’s innate resilience.

Alina is a qualified medical herbalist with the BCHA and a registered acupuncturist with the CTCM... Read More

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