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People’s Medicine Show

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Fragments of Her Story MelissaDoordaughter

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Melissa Dawson. 
Melissa Doordaughter Was born in London, England in 1981.  She studied anthropology and world religions in the smallest university in Europe.  She has performed her poetry at Glastonbury musical festival, at Green Heart Ecological centre in Ibiza and at the Amsterdam International Festival of Poetry.
Her life has been significantly marked by her experiences as a victim of sexual abuse.  She has spent a great part of her young adulthood seeking healing.  This journey took her to organic farms around Europe, and back in 2003 she realised her own personal healing was deeply intertwined with the health of our children and the planet itself.
Her latest book- “Fragments of Her Story” is exactly that, a fragment of a bigger picture, a picture of her journey out of the realms and towards a life of joy and gratitude.
Melissa currently lives and works in Italy, where she works as a proof reader, teacher and translator.
this episode Q&A includes:
• making pine needle vinegar..
• try experimenting making herbal remedies, small amounts and see what happens..
• trauma- changing our minds using sound, color and writing your story..
• don't should on yourself..
• do you need a tooth implant with a bone graft?
• low iron levels and wanting off birth control..
• tremendous amount of stress...

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & When Witches Fight Zsuzsanna Budapest

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Zsuzsanna Budapest. 
this episode Q&A includes:
• alleviating pain and inflammation from arthritis- remove pepper from your diet, add daily nourishing herbal infusions..
• horehound- how to harvest and use or not..
• asking for help, creating debt and real relationship..
• cannabis use..
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Chakrubs Vanessa Cuccia

Susun answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Vanessa Cuccia. Vanessa Cuccia is regarded as a pioneer in the toy industry for introducing her methods of using crystals for sexual healing and empowerment on a global scale. She is the founder and creator of Chakrubs. She continues to receive testimonials from people around the world who use her Chakrub products and methods. These overwhelmingly positive testimonials have inspired her to write her latest book, Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasure. Since conceptualizing her initial designs for crystal pleasure tools in 2011, and establishing her brand in 2012, Cuccia has been an influencer in the social movement of positivity, self-love, and personal awareness by bridging the gap between sensuality and spirituality. As creator of products that symbolize the essence of these movements, she spearheaded the ethos of the brand which is inspiring many to nurture their own emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and spiritual connection.
 
this episode Q&A includes:
• hypoglycemia- nourishing herbal infusions, creating a new ritual around eating..
• prioritize yourself to be able to give without resentment..
• migrane relief- progesterone coated iud?
• preoperative care is more effective than post operative care..
• hemorrhoids that will not go away- witch hazel or oak bark sitz bath..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Herstory Artist Rebecca Goyette

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Rebecca Goyette. 
Rebecca Goyette creates persona-based works that poke holes in Puritanical sexual mores. Working in a wide variety of media, her extensive artillery features figurative drawing, video, performance, and handmade sculptural elements made from fabric, clay and found materials used in a ritual fashion. Many know her as Lobsta Girl, and Goyette has filmed her interspecies os detailing the lives of lobsters internationally. Originally, Goyette adopted the sexually aggressive female lobster as a primary character she performed live to promote female agency. Another alter ego to Goyette is the ghost of her direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse hanged as a Salem witch, who is re-imagined cycling through repetitive power dynamics in fits and foibles in the "New World."
this episode Q&A includes:
• teasel root specific for lymes disease..
• dream work, working with guides in the spirit world..
• reweaving thinking patterns..
• rheumatoid arthritis or lymes disease?
• smoking herbs- bringing medicine down into the lungs..
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’Biophilic Garden’ Isla Burgess

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Isla Burgess. Isla has been through many ways of looking at the world and the plant world inparticular. Erring on the view of plants as intelligent life forms capable of self expression and an MSc in Holistic Science in 2008 and 2009, set her on a ‘the journey of a lifetime’. Every day that Isla lives on this land in the wilds of Central Otago, New Zealand, Isla lives as a participant in this extraordinary place.
Following on from the very practical book Weeds Heal A Working Herbal,
written in 1998, Isla wrote a second book that includes many of the experiences of living on this land among these extraordinary beings. That book is The Biophilic Garden Connecting People, Plants and Inscape was published last November.

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Status of the Feminine Riane Eisler

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Riane Eisler. 
IANE EISLER, JD, PhD (hon), is a systems scientist and cultural historian whose research has inspired both scholars and social activists. Her work shows that raising the status of women is key to constructing a more equitable and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination, and she pioneered the expansion of human rights theory and action to include the rights of women and children. She is co-founder and president of the
 
Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), dedicated to research and education, and Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, an online peer-reviewed journal at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by her work. 
Dr. Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller "The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 27 foreign editions. Her book  "The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, was hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” and by Jane Goodall as “a call to action.” Her most recent book, "Transforming Inter professional Partnerships won national and international awards.
this episode Q&A includes:
• gallstone and kidney stones- liver and kidney herbal and nutritional allies..
• breaking the cell walls of plants-
• maidenwort, motherwort and croneswort..
• turkey tail, birch polypores and other medicinal mushrooms- preparations- what's in the mycelium is also in the fruiting body!?
• nourishing herbal infusions are medicinal, medicinal foods..
• acceptance or seeing something as a problem?
• jimson weed - datura - be cautious!

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’Bounce’ Resilient Children Dr Kate Lund

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Kate Lund.
Dr. Kate Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist and performance coach with more than fifteen years of experience. She has specialized training in medical psychology from Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all of which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and she is an adjunct instructor in Psychology at Bastyr University in Seattle.  
As a mother and a psychologist, Kate Lund is deeply concerned about the prevalence of social media, bullying, and anxiety in America when it comes to our kids.  In BOUNCE she shares tips and tools on how to help children deal with anxiety which puts a spotlight on resilience and how it helps students thrive.  Resilience is so important because it is what helps children bounce back from challenge and move forward despite the challenge. 
 
There is some personal experience where this concept of resileince was drawn from.  When she was a child, Kate was diagnosed with hydrocephalus which involved multiple surgeries where her head would have to be shaved.  Her differences in appearance made her a target for the other children.  With the guidance of her parents and her own resilience, she overcame and succeeded. 

People’s Medicine Show

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Vocal BioAcoustic Biology Sharry Edwards

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sharry Edwards. 
Sharry Edwards has been accused of being too scientific by some, too esoteric by others. She is a bridge between both fields of inquiry.  Sharry is the acknowledged pioneer in the emerging field of Vocal Profiling using BioAcoustic Biology.  She has for many years provided the leading-edge research to show the voice as a holographic representation of the body that can be used to change the face of medicine.
Vocal Profiling can let us know the intentions of our leaders; the motivations of our partners; the foundation of our sense of well-being.  Would those abilities be of value in the struggle to attain dominion over our intrinsic right to personal freedoms?
this episode Q&A includes:
• does the uterus have a separate immune system? possibly why topical estrogen applied to the does not circulate in the body..
• new drugs are more likely to have the most side effects and therefore are more dangerous to our health..
• everyone has candida albicans...
• dairy products are one of the most crucial components to a health - full fat plain yogurt..
• do not consume dairy substitute- they contain calcium supplements contributing to high risk of broken bones..
• why to drink a quart of nourishing herbal infusion a day..
• it is you that bares the brunt of how you present yourself to the world..
• multi souled individuals..
• blame, shame and guilt are not allowed!
• natural insect repellant that works and does not contain essential oils!
• flu shot or elderberry?
• chickweed is amazing for so many things!