Wild Rose Medicine

Wild Rose Medicine is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit clinic at 475 North Lake Blvd, Suite 205, in Tahoe City, California. Dedicated to accessible holistic health care, it serves the North Lake Tahoe community through a sliding-scale model that ensures consistent, high-quality treatment for all patients. Led by Dr. Elena Roemer, a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, the practice focuses on integrative wellness and community-based healing.
The clinic specializes in acupuncture, herbal medicine, and integrative consultations, addressing needs including fertility support, pain management, stress, anxiety, and hormonal health. Dr. Roemer, NCCAOM certified and licensed by the California Board of Acupuncture, combines Eastern medicine with a trauma-informed approach to create personalized treatment plans. Patients can expect a welcoming, calm environment where their health history and individual needs are met with deep presence and intuition.
Wild Rose Medicine was co-founded by Dr. Roemer's husband, Brian Wallace, a Sierra Nevada naturalist and field guide. Together they lead the clinic's educational programming: a growing series of guided plant walks and hands-on workshops that carry its mission beyond the treatment room and into the landscape. Participants learn to identify local wild edible and medicinal plants and explore their uses through foraging, herbalism, and the energetics of Chinese medicine, alongside the ethnobotany, folklore, and ecology of the Tahoe Sierra. These offerings invite neighbors and visitors alike to build a deeper relationship with the wild places of North Lake Tahoe.