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Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Nourish to Flourish Marcie Goldman

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Marcie Goldman. Marcie Goldman is a Feminist Health Coach. This means she doesn't prescribe diets. She helps people recover from restrictive diets, "food sensitivities" and digestive-distress using food and herbs. 
She teaches, "nourishing is flourishing." She believes in food SKILLS, not obedience. 
Her work combines the Wise Woman Tradition, "nutrition recovery," and herbal medicine. A stellar combination she's honed, working one-on-one and leading group programs, for over 20 years.
Marcie graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a Board Certified Health Coach in 1999 after completing Susun Weed's Shamanic Herbal Apprenticeship in 1998. Before that, she received her Bachelor's in Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Most recently, Marcie is a certified Addiction Recovery Nutrition Coach and Mental Health Recovery Nutrition Coach through the Alliance for Addiction Solutions. 
She currently offers feminist health coaching with individuals and her next group program, "Nourish to Flourish," begins October 22nd. 
this episode Q&A includes:
• safe and simple herbs - you can't do it wrong, you can only do it better..
• yummy and effective remedies to make with anise hyssop..
• working with the immune system...
• anxiety- do what you need to do to make an interesting life..
• what do we do to stop ourselves because we think other people will think we're weird..
• what can we do when disaster strikes..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’Strange Beauty’ Eliza Factor

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Eliza Factor. Eliza is author of the acclaimed novels The Mercury Fountain and Love Maps. Eliza and her husband have three children, the eldest of whom is multiply disabled. She is founder and President of the Board of Extreme Kids & Crew, a non profit community center that connects families with children with disabilities through the arts, music and play in Brooklyn. Factor was named New Yorker of the Week by NY1 in 2012 for creating the city's first drop in sensory playspace for children with disabilities. Eliza Factor lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.  Additional infomration available at https://www.elizafactor.net/strange-beauty/ 
this episode Q&A includes:
• give your spent plants back to the earth...
• persistent organic pollutant- where do your organic dollars count?
• strep throat- echinacea, sage honey, propolis- why not to use antibiotics unless you are in a life threatening situation..
• herbal antibiotics- Stephen Harod Buhner's books..
• using herbs to nourish ourselves..
• immune system, flu shots and being exposed to virus's..
• low level inflammation..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Botanical Medicine Jill Stansbury

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Jill Stansbury.
Dr Stansbury is an ethnobotanist and outdoor enthusiast and leads Ethnobotany field courses in the Andes and Manu region of the Peruvian Amazon each July.  She has built a humble home in Cuzco and hosts studies in cultural anthropology, oral history collection, ethnobotany, and the mystical and healing traditions with four different tribal communities.  She is presently documenting and organizing traditional ethnobotanical wisdom in order to give it back to the various tribes when the time is right. She became adept at the Spanish language to conduct this research, and know plants names in 4 additional tribal languages including Matsigenka, Bora, Wachiperi, and Yaguas.
     She is the mother of two adult children, and her hobbies include art, photography, playing the guitar and singing with friends, gardening, camping, cooking and studying quantum and metaphysics and international travel.  When she’s not traveling or working, she can most likely be found in her garden.
     
Dr Stansbury can be reached at jstansbury@nunm.edu.

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 & Healing Sexual Abuse Carolin Hauser

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with  Carolin Hauser. Thirteen years ago Carolin came to America from Germany with $7 in her pocket and a dream that she would be able to help others. Carolin has encountered many difficult life situations and circumstances that have helped define her and transform her into the person she is today. Through remembering her own childhood sexual trauma, recovering from a ten-year eating disorder, suffering from chronic fatigue, getting divorced and going bankrupt; to now, being married to her Divine Partner and Soulmate Paul and helping over 5,000 other people heal, find love, create success in their life, and businesses. All while growing her own business into a multi-six-figure Company. Carolin has written an award-winning book: Blossom: 7 Steps to Sexual Healing. She is a German trained Naturopathic Doctor, Humanistic Psychotherapist, and Family Constellations Facilitator. And is an internationally recognized speaker and teacher on the subjects of women’s empowerment, spirituality, relationships and emotional healing for almost two decades. Her work is based on the intersection of where the human body and experience meet past trauma... in order to heal.
this episode Q&A includes:
• jewelweed as a powerful anti-inflammatory..
• overheated- ways to prepare and ingest burdock..
• intuitive dosing of herbs- letting your body guide you..
• homeschooling..
• decaying teeth, infection- yarrow, echinacea and myrr..
• goldenseal- why not to use!!!
• gastrointestinal distress- start with slippery elm balls..
• it doesn't matter in no one likes you- you have to like you..
• castor oil to dissolve bone spurs..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & PWHC’s EagleSong Evans Gardener

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with EagleSong Evans Gardener. EagleSong Gardener is a gardener/herbalist, grandmother/earth-keeper
and a pilgrim-adventurer from the Pacific Northwest corner of North America. She is woman with a passion for culture which she notices grows from the connection of people, plants and earth, EagleSong is founder of RavenCroft Garden in Monroe, WA. where she tends heart and soul at the hearth of RavenCroft. She is the Director of the Pacific Women's Herbal Conference. A gathering for women interested in tending life the wise woman way.
A daily practice of natural health, simple living and herbal medicine anchors her herbal apprenticeships for those interested in the rigorous journey of being human.
this episode Q&A includes:
• expressing anger..
• gut flora, gut biome- foods that contain the most available culture..
• old cat- no tinctures for cats- comfrey infusion, hospice care for cats.
• medical professionals make offerings- no need to accept.
• the babushkas of chernobyl.
• hepatoprotective plants- milk thistle, reishi, schisandra, astragalus- how to use.
• experiencing too much stress? can show up in the body in spasms- motherwort or lemonbalm tincture..
• osha- Ligusticum porterii- use in emergency situations only..
• overwhelmed- the more you say in, the more overwhelmed you will be- other options..
• making decisions that will highly impact your life- think it through- is it worth the risk?
• fertility- all 5 nourishing herbal infusions- nettle, oatstraw, redclover, comfrey, linden..
• red raspberry- uterine tone- very astringent..
• oxalates- what to include and what to avoid when dealing with bladder issues..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’MOODTOPIA’ Sara Chana Silverstein

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sara-Chana Silverstein. Sar-Chana is the author of the book MOODTOPIA: Tame your moods, de-stress, and find balance using herbal remedies.  She is a Master Herbalist RH (AHG), Classical Homeopath, Board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), businesswoman, wife, keynote speaker and mother of seven children.  She is regularly featured on TV news shows across the US discussing how people can integrate alternative medicine with conventional medicine.  She is a consultant to many pediatricians, surgeons, obstetricians, midwives, general doctors and guest lectures to resident at medical schools.
this episode Q&A includes:
• is linden a better anti inflammatory than turmeric?
• liver and gallbladder problem- slippery elm smoothes everything out..
• smoke in the air and pregnant..
• why essential oils are problematic..
• Baba Yaga..
• and much more..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Ancient Feminine Wisdom HeatherAsh Amara

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with HeatherAsh Amara. HeatherAsh is the bestselling author of Warrior Goddess Training, Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be. She travels the world working with groups of women to integrate the feminine wisdom of the ancients into their modern lives.
this episode Q&A includes:
• hypothyroidism healing success without taking medication..
• central sleep apnea- what is the problem with the problem..
• wholeness and integrating our darkness..
• teachings from Elisabeth Kubler Ross..
• tincturing yellowdock root..
• preventing and treating ovarian cancer with ginkgo biloba tincture..
• retaining plant volatiles from mint family plants by making pestos and honeys..
• harvesting linden flowers.. 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’Illustrated Herbiary’ Maia Toll

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minuteinterview with Maia Toll.
Maia Toll opened the first Herbiary shop in Philadelphia in 2006 after returning from a year-long apprenticeship with an herbalist in Ireland. Maia believed, and still believes, that easy access to plant-based healing can cultivate love and respect for the natural world, even if you live in the most urban of spaces. Maia has taught plant medicine at universities, hospitals, and even in the Peruvian jungle but, these days, she prefers to focus on creating community around women's wisdom and spirituality, working through her online group The Medicine Keepers Collective. Her first book, The Illustrated Herbiary, hits the shelves today! The Illustrated Herbiary helps you create connection with the plants through ritual and reflection, using imagery to ignite your imagination. If you order your copy this evening, you'll still be able to get the free online class Maia offered for pre-orders, which she extended so listeners of Susun Weed radio can jump in. Get all the info at maiatoll.com
this episode Q&A includes:
• is comfrey labeled Symphytum officinale safe to drink?
• calcified deposits in shoulder- seven medicines..
• hashimoto's- listen to yourself or your naturopath? Who knows your body better?
• rash on face and neck, burning irritating- hypericum perforatum..
• itchy flaky scalp- burdock seed oil, rosemary infused oil..
• can you find a use for what you have harvested? ONLY harvest plants you have a use for/ can make into medicine immediately!
• slow down and be a little wiser..
• you can get a diagnosis and treat that diagnosis, but you may not make yourself healthy by treating that diagnosis..

People’s Medicine Show

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