DragonHeart｜The story of symbiosis between herbs and humans
We are not designers, but translators of traditional Chinese medicine.
Origin: A little girl who grew up with the smell of Chinese medicine
When I was a kid, my grandfather’s Chinese medicine cabinet was my playground.
Forsythia suspensa is like dried mountain breeze, mugwort smells like sunshine, and angelica root is like the wrinkles of an old tree. I always secretly string herbs into chains and carve them into small pendants—they shouldn’t be locked in drawers, but should be carried around with people, to smell the coffee, listen to the subway, and look at neon lights.
At the age of 25, I founded DragonHeart. Turning Chinese medicine into jewelry is not a sudden idea, but a seed planted in my heart since childhood.
Product idea: Let herbs speak
Let the herbs tell their own stories.
Forsythia leaves are embedded in necklaces, which can release a cool breath with body temperature; wormwood essential oil is sealed in bracelet beads, which produces fragrance when rubbed when under pressure; and earrings carved from angelica roots are close to the skin to transmit warm energy. Each piece of jewelry is alive – the herbs continue to grow between metal and glass, breathing with the wearer.”Don’t treat them as decorations,” I often tell the team, “this is a new way for humans to connect with nature in the 21st century.”
Your promise to me
People who buy DragonHeart are very special – they don’t ask me “what diseases can it cure”, but say: “I sleep more peacefully wearing it” and “I feel less anxious when I touch the mugwort beads in a meeting.” Someone wrote: “It is like my plant friend, reminding me to slow down and breathe.” This is what I want to do: to make the three thousand years of herbal wisdom become an old friend that modern people carry with them.
The future: Let goodwill take root
This year, we launched the “Pulse Project”:
For every piece of jewelry sold, DragonHeart will donate 5% of the price of the jewelry to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This is not charity, but to let the warmth of herbs penetrate national borders – when a girl’s forsythia necklace shakes lightly, it may be sending a dose of pain-relieving herbs to children in war-torn areas; the wormwood bracelet rubbed by a boy may turn into a fever-reducing medicine bag in his mother’s arms.
The destination of DragonHeart is not in the jewelry box, but in the palm of a hand in a corner of the world. There, the ancient heartbeat of oriental herbs is continuing life in a new way.
“True healing knows no skin color or borders.”
