Acupuncture & Craniosacral Therapy • Alpha Gal Clinical Trial • Food as Medicine Seminar + Dinner • Integrative Medicine Education • Timber Frame Community Healing Space • Holistic Practitioner Meet ‘n Greet

The Little Herb That Could is a traditional herbal medicine farm and integrative clinical practice spanning 106 acres in mid-Missouri, supporting medicinal plant cultivation, botanical research, and Food as Medicine education informed by classical systems and modern physiology.

Cheryl Weatherby, L.Ac., practices within the Shen-Hammer lineage of Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis, a system utilizing over 90 diagnostic qualities across six principal and twenty-two complementary pulse positions. She completed a 2,000-hour clinical internship at The Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (2006–2010), studied under senior instructor Ross Rosen, and later served as his associate practitioner from 2012–2020. She continues advanced training with Shen-Hammer–certified instructors nationwide. In parallel, Cheryl trained in Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis with Dr. Vasant Lad at The Ayurvedic Institute and through the California College of Ayurveda’s Pancha Karma certification program. The psycho-emotional and physical health information revealed by these systems allow for discernment of a disease process at a very early stage.

Cheryl is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute’s chef training program in New York City and received formal training in Chinese dietary therapy during her graduate studies at the Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine. Her clinical herbal education includes traditional Chinese herbal medicine, Kampo (Sino-Japanese) herbology, and homeopathy.

She is a licensed acupuncturist in Missouri, board-certified by the NCCAOM, and holds certifications in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, manual lymphatic drainage, hypnotherapy, Chi Nei Tsang Taoist visceral manipulation, Nuad-Bo Rarn Thai yoga therapy, Ayurveda, and energy medicine.

Cheryl completed a classical midwifery internship with the Russian Birth Project in St. Petersburg, participating in 27 births and providing prenatal and postpartum care in both hospital and home settings.

Her clinical background includes work in private practice, physician offices, community clinics, and the VA Health Administration through a clinical externship. She has trained in human dissection through Somanautics Workshops and taught gross anatomy for the Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment.

Seasonal herb and wildflower identification walks offered monthly throughout the spring, summer, and fall, led by deeply knowledgeable local botanists and plant educators.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

- John Muir

“The world contained in a seed,

Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.” - E.A. Bucchianeri.

“All rise!”

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the sea and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more" -Lord Byron