Founders Statement
As an Acupuncturist and a mom of two boys, I built my kids’ wellness plans around traditional Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, diet and lifestyle.
Which is easier said than done 😂
After a few years of infant and toddler acupuncture treatments, my kids rejected the needle pokes and I was one down in my tool kit of how to keep them healthy. I leaned heavily on traditional Chinese herbal medicines, often available as tinctures and teas for kids too young to swallow pills.
If you’ve ever tried to give medicine to a child, you know it may have an acquired taste. Desperate to get healing herbs into my boys, I would “incentivize” them with a few chocolate chips with their medicine.
It worked! My kids took herbs without much fight and I felt no mom guilt at all with rewarding them with a few organic, dark chocolate chips.
The idea of making functional herbal chocolate bars stirred around in my mind for a few years. It was during the Covid -19 state of emergency, and 8 week shut down of my Acupuncture practice, that I had a moment to focus on it.
I enlisted my family’s help during the shut down. Lucky for me my family consists of Jean-Luc, who is a Swiss chef, and Jonathan, who is a Chinese herbal medicine expert. We spent months in the kitchen together formulating organic dark and white chocolate recipes, matching herbal formulas with chocolate and thinking about our mission- introducing more people to traditional East Asian and Chinese medicine, including Acupuncture and Herbs.
I hope you enjoy Chi Chi Wellness’ chocolate bars, for their healing benefits, educational tips, and delicious new flavors infusing organic chocolate with thousands of years of knowledge passed down to us for wellbeing.
A Mission Of Medicinal Love
These functional products are loaded with chocolate, healing herbs, information, and Love! At Chi Chi Wellness we believe our chocolates are a delicious way to educate everyone about the healing practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We are committed to sustainability and health, sourcing the highest quality chocolate and herbs. Through the sweetness of chocolate, we aim to increase access to acupuncture and natural herbal medicine for all people.
With Love,
Dr. Kerry Boyle, DAc, LAc
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine