About Us

The Medicine Bag opened its doors on winter solstice of 2024, starting off as a dream of a collective herbal medicine space that centers BIPOC people and creating accessibility to various traditional healing modalities and knowledge shares. We stock our shelves with locally sourced herbal medicines, plant based skin care and local art. Here you can find a unique variety of odds and ends!

Why The Medicine Bag?

Our store highlights a variety of BIPOC artists and medicine makers, all of different cultural backgrounds! We consider ourselves a pan-indigenous store, stocking offerings from North American natives to Southern natives from what we now call Mexico. We chose The Medicine Bag because our shop is a container for ancestral healing modalities, a healing space and home to Indigenous and POC creators.

Meet the Shop Owner

The Medicine Bag is owned and operated by Leighla Tezcatzin Molina, originally from South Texas (puro 956). Leighla is of Huasteca lineage originating from the Sierra Madre Oriental extending from Guanajuato, SLP, Coahuila and Tamaulipas. Always having grown up around plants/natural medicines and playing in the dirt, Leighla formally began her herbal studies in Central TX at the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine (2017/2018) and continues her studies to this day.

After years of playing a supporting role in various small businesses and apothecaries around town, she decided to open the shop to create a space that centers BIPOC healing and arts.

Her vision is to encourage people to reconnect with plants in a loving, respectful manner through offering accessible knowledge shares and remedies so people can be empowered in caring for their community and loved ones through ancestral knowledge.