JK DeLapp

I am a licensed traditional Chinese medicine doctor that specializes in Japanese Kampo acupuncture and Fukushin herbal prescription.

I have worked with Chinese medicine for many years and have a private practice in Atlanta, GA USA.

While in med school we had to memorize quite a bit of information about hundreds and hundreds of medical substances, including the Chinese pinyin, the common English names, and the Latin scientific names.

It didn’t take me long to figure out that pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, fragrance, flavour, and the incense and spice trades were all built on the back of herbs.

In my third year of school, something clicked and I realized, “I could be a physician. Or, I could be a physician, and… !” I wanted to tap into a much larger world that was built on the back of something most never think twice about: herbs. Foundations in a multitude of global modern-day markets.

Since natural oils distilled/extracted from herbs – what we call essential oils, “absolutes”, etc. – are really pharmaceutical-grade herb extracts, fragrance seemed like a natural place to start.

So to give new life to old practice, I founded Rising Phoenix.

You can learn more about my background and experience here.