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Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest, Selena Fox

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Selena Fox.
Selena Fox is a Nature priestess, EcoFeminist, Pagan civil rights activist, Goddess Spirituality rituals facilitator, author, podcaster, teacher, spiritual psychotherapist and counselor.  Also known as Rev. Selena Fox, Selena is senior minister of Circle Sanctuary which has been serving Nature Spirituality practitioners of many paths worldwide with publications, events, networking, civil rights activism, and other services since 1974. A lifelong environmentalist, Selena is founder of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve located in southwestern Wisconsin, USA, which includes Circle Cemetery, a national Pagan burying ground that is among the first Green cemeteries in North America. Selena has a MS in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and does consultations, readings, and counseling by zoom and telephone with clients across USA, Canada, and beyond.  Selena's writings, rituals, chants, and photographs have been widely published on-line and in-print.  Selena hosts two weekly podcasts, Nature Spirituality and Nature Mystic on Circle Sanctuary's internet radio network, CSNP, and presents workshops and rituals at conferences and gatherings online and in person. She is founder of the Circle Craft tradition which blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, Hedgewitchery, Multicultural Shamanism, and Nature Mysticism. More info: www.selenafox.com & www.circlesanctuary.org
Q&A topics in this episode include:
chronic pain managementlyme disease & lymphoma in dogsboosting immunity w/ nourishing herbshigh blood pressureproblems with blue-green algae
 
 
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest, Brighid Doherty

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed a 30 minute interview with her guest, Brighid Doherty.
Brighid Doherty is an herbalist honoring the Wise Woman Tradition.  She resides on Deer Isle, a bridged-island in Downeast Maine.  Brighid is a passionate herbal health educator and a professional gardener.  She is the founder of The Solidago School of Herbalism.  Brighid began her connection with herbs while playing in her mother's gardens as a child, their scents and beauty attracting her curiosity. For the past two decades, Brighid has worked with medicinal plants in a variety of ways; as a student and a teacher, a gardener and a forager, a medicine maker and health consultant.  She received a BA focused in Organic Agriculture and Herbal Medicine from Evergreen State College.  She has had many wonderful herbalist mentors including Susun Weed, Rosemary Gladstar, Katja Swift, and KP Khalsa.  She teaches a variety of workshops for the home herbalist, including medicinal plant walks, herbal spas, an Herbs for Health series, and hands-on medicine making.  Brighid also offers an online course, called Nourish Yourself.  This course teaches how to incorporate common herbs, in simple ways, into daily life.  Brighid inspires people to be more self-reliant in their health and healing process.  She teaches the home herbalist how to bring herbal medicine into their lives by relating to plants in their bodies, kitchens, gardens, and the wild.  
Q &A topics in this episode include:
preventing & dealing with COVID19ganglion cystnerve painmuscle spasmsendometriosis/ fallopian tube blockagePTSDexercisedrying corn silkankle paincoronavirus vaccine/ flu vaccinetesticular cancerhibiscus infusionprobiotics

People’s Medicine Show

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events and trends happening in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed and guest, Lauren Cooper

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed and guest, Lauren Cooper of Greenstar Farm and Apothecary
 
Lauren Cooper is an artist , farmer and  community herbalist living in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia. With her family she has owned and operated Greenstar Farm and Apothecary in Blacksburg, Va since 1991.
As an herbalist she grows , forages, stocks and markets locally a large apothecary of medicinal plant preparations with the help of apprentices, and runs a small free and barter clinic. Inspiration from her herbal practice informs her work as an artist. Lauren is  the author and illustrator of : Greenstar Folk Herbal- Do It Yourself Plant Medicines For The People , published  in 2019
 http://greenstarfarm.co/index.html
https://campuslife.vt.edu/student_centers/Squires/Perspective_Gallery/medicine-show.html
https://www.facebook.com/GreenstarFarmAndApothecary/
Q & A topics in this episode include:
intestinal discomfortgoji berriesgetting rid of fleastincture teaherb infused oilsevening primrosehealing ancestral traumaalfalfa

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed and guest, Pamela Fischer

Pamela Fischer is the founder and President of the Berkeley Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA. Berkeley Herbal Center is a non-profit organization serving the community through its Western Herbal medicine school, community clinic, and robust dispensary. It is one of the few schools in the country that operates a year-round community clinic on site.
For 30 years Pamela has been studying plants and herbal medicine. After receiving her degree in eco-psychology, Pam became attracted to the herbal healing path and immersed herself into a well-rounded education provided by the insights and wisdom of Western scientists, Western herbalists, native healers, wise women, and witches. Her basket of tools includes Western herbal theory, Traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, Ayurveda, and Tibetan medicine. She has spent countless hours and days camping and hiking in our local woods, working with local plant medicine, and teaching about their use and conservation. 
Pam is known as a visionary leader and grass-roots organizer. She has inspired generations of herbalists to be a stand for change in our healthcare system. Many of her graduates have and are currently creating similar establishments to provide services locally. In this vein, Pam endeavors to free her community from a broken system and move them toward an era of healthcare based on prevention, compassion, and care.
Q & A topics in this episode include:
organic vs non-organic alcohol for tincturesherbal vinegarsQueen Anne's Lacemanifesting with herbsblack currantsspell to deal with an annoying persondental care for dogslaundering with orange peelsedible landscapingchronically itchy palmscomfreymullien infusion

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed and guest, Rev. Maggy Whitehouse

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Rev. Maggy Whitehouse.
Rev. Maggy Whitehouse is an independent sacramental minister (or Hedge Priest), a professional stand-up comedian and an expert and prolific author on Bible History and metaphysics. She began stand-up at the age of 56.
Maggy has more than 30 years’ experience as a radio and television journalist and documentaries presenter and producer and was host moderator for the BBC’s Religion & Ethics message boards during the second Iraq war. Alan Bookbinder, head of BBC Religion and Ethics 2001-6 described her as ‘terrifying!’
She is the author of 17 published books including six on Judeo-Christian mysticism; China By Rail (Century 1988) and The Miracle Man, the story of what would happen if the Messiah returned today as a judge on America’s Got Talent. (The Miracle Man, O Books 2008).
Maggy made it on to Wikipedia after writing a sensible book about Opus Dei at the time of all the palaver over The Da Vinci Code.
She has been widowed, divorced and is now happily married to an astrologer which worries the Parish Council considerably. She has worked as a hospice chaplain, ridden on a Bengal tiger and survived a barracuda attack off the Barrier Reef. Both Maggy’s mother and her Bishop think she should get a proper job.
Q & A topics in this episode include:
fertility follow-uppost-menopausal sexual desirearnicaokraloss of energy after ovulationheart & bone health follow-up psychosis after having COVID 19

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & guest, Joyelle Petersen

 
 
Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minte interview with guest, Joyelle Petersen
 
Joyelle Petersen is a mother of four spirited children and a keeper of sacred rites. She has been in service to her Community for over 15 years devoted to honoring the sacred transitions of birth, ceremony, ritual, and death. She infuses her work with each family,client,and individual as a devotion allowing a personalized approach to meet the needs of the women and families she serves. The true essence of Joyelle's talents lie with the creation of women’s gatherings, circles, and honoring the ebb of flow of our internal rhythms. Ceremonial Practices have always been in the forefront of her work, and she believes through the blessings of celebration a great generational healing can occur. The lives Joyelle has been blessed to touch became her catalyst to create more intentional gatherings in the future. 
Contact Joyelle Petersen on Instagram @warrioresswithin and on her webpages:
 awakensacredretreat.com  and  awakeningjoyl.com
Q & A topics in this episode include:
MRSA follow-uporal irritation from oregano oil chagaacetominophen useweaning infant from breast milksupporting teen son's sexualityfood poisoningmasks and face shieldsslippery elm ballsshield ceremony

People’s Medicine Show

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events and trends happening in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & guest, Kerri Connor

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Kerri Connor.
Kerri Connor is the leader of The Gathering Grove – a family friendly earth based spiritual group - and has been practicing her craft for over 30 years. She is currently working on her 9th book and her writing has appeared in several Pagan magazines.  Kerri is a cancer survivor and holds a Medical Marijuana Card in Illinois where she lives with her husband, son, and a plethora of critters.  A graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Kerri holds a B.A. in Communications. She is working to convert a portion of their land into a spiritual sanctuary. Visit her online at www.KerriConnor.com.
Q & A topics in this episode include:
relationshipsasthma / shortness of breaththrush follow-uphip and lower back painconnecting with plantsHPVdonating herbs and herbal supplies

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & guest, Steve Blake

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Steve Blake, ScD.
Steve Blake, ScD is a doctor of science specializing in nutritional biochemistry. He is a registered professional herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Master Herbalist. He is author of the worldwide database the Herb Doctors with 168,000 herbal facts. He is Director of Nutritional Neuroscience at the Maui Memory Clinic. He worked as Faculty Nutritional Biochemist at Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience for years. He just published a clinical study in the Journal of Brain Sciences on reversing dementia. He is research director at the Neuroscience Nutrition Foundation. He has presented grand rounds at many hospitals. He is recently credentialed to work in China setting up hospital programs to reverse disorders using nutrition. He is author of 16 major works on the effects of nutrition on health, including Nutrients for Memory (www.drsteveblake.com).
Q & A topicx in this episode include:
hydroxychloroquineLyme disease recoveryhealth care availabilityalcohol-free disinfectantsharvesting and using yarrowovarian cyst follow-upchoosing herbsatrial fibrillationloss of appetite due to medication