About Essential Medicina

The roots of Essential Medicina run deeper than deep, so deep in fact that there are few places on Earth to which we cannot offer our profound gratitude for their generous contribution and collaboration. In a more local sense, our vision dates back to the early childhood of one of our founders, Dr. Eric Baumgartner, and the simple trinity of a boy observing his parents’ love for the garden. Doctor and teacher, his father and mother shared a common appreciation and kinship with the plants and the earth that planted seeds which would sprout as he set out on his own life’s journey. It was years later during a pilgrimage in the heart of central México that this innate and organic friendship with plants began to mature, awakening him to the power of plants as medicine. From there on, no matter where he went, the plants of that region found a way to stretch out their verdant limbs and beckon him forward on the path to becoming a doctor of natural medicine. Our current formulations are the culmination of 10 years of clinical practice, mentorship in Functional medicine, and Doctoral level research in Oriental medicine.Read their story