Who We Are
TAO + SALOMA is a pattern-based range of botanical formulas. Our founder, Cicely Everson, created the Pattern Medicine framework and uses it to inform each product's profile and purpose, mapping to one of three primary patterns she encounters in clinical practice: Deep Depletion, Inflammatory Heat, & Metabolic Stagnation. Select products are carried in more than 80 retailers worldwide. If you'd like to carry our brand in your place of business, send us a message or place your wholesale order here.
How We Work
We choose herbs the way we read the body: intuitively and clinically. Every formula begins with a question about system, not symptom — is this body needing cleansing, detoxification, repair, or the steadier work of tending a chronic pattern? Botanicals are selected for their action on that specific process, not for trend appeal or a familiar name on the label. From there, ratios, extraction, and dosage are developed to address one or more recurring patterns.
Who We’re For
We're here for the seekers - those ready to become their own healer. The ones who want to learn the language of their own body, so it can do its job of balancing and healing. Whether you're standing at a threshold between an old new identity, working to regulate your nervous system, targeting an organ or body system for repair, or simply want to support longevity and wellbeing, we're here for you. And for those who have felt failed by conventional medicine, we've got you.
What We Do
We translate Pattern Medicine — our clinical framework built across years of practice — to help you heal beyond the root cause. We craft formulas that shift you at the cellular level, including herbal medicines, oils, skincare, and fragrance, developed for general health or one of three terrains: Deep Depletion, Inflammatory Heat, Metabolic Stagnation. Your body is running one or more of these patterns right now, and we teach you how to identify and repattern it.
Meet the Founder
Cicely Everson is a clinical herbalist, functional medicine practitioner, intuitive healer, and the creator of pattern medicine, a holistic framework for identifying patterns that float beneath one’s symptoms and even “root causes.”What began in 2010 as her own desperate quest to heal her body gradually became four distinct realms, each serving a different dimension of healing. Between her private practice, botanical medicine collection, professional training programs, and mind-body medicine nonprofit, her east by west approach to health helps others become more regulated and resilient, both physically and spiritually.
How a pattern becomes both a formula and an approach to healing — read each stage below.
The creation of every protocol and every formula began with understanding — who you are, what your body is carrying, the patterns that linger beneath it, and what it is asking for in order to transform.-
Every formula starts with a question, not an ingredient: which terrain does this serve primarily? Deep Depletion, Inflammatory Heat, or Metabolic Stagnation — each carrying its own distinct physiological signature.
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Botanicals are selected for their action on that specific terrain — not for trend appeal or shelf marketability. And to maximize bioavailability of a formula, where an ingredient can be tincture-extracted rather than synthetically isolated, it is.
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Ratios, extraction methods, and dilution are developed the way a clinical protocol is developed — tested for both efficacy and skin safety before a formula is considered finished, not just when it's ready to photograph.
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The final test for a new product isn't a focus group to try it. It's the terrain itself — how one’s pattern responds to an herb or formula, and how it is improved as a result.
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