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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

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Red Earth’s Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin. Astrid Grove currently lives in the Colorado mountain town of Nederland with her husband, her two daughters, and two cats.  Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women’s empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony.  She is in the process of revamping her website and you can expect that soon at www.astridgrove.com.
Ixeeya Lin is dedicated to restoring the feminine back to her full embodied glory to support sacred union on our glorious planet!  Through rite of passage coaching, bodywork and rituals she helps you awaken deep meaning, awaken confidence and authenticity and value your feminine genius. Ixeeya has been on a wild adventure, trained and certified by a variety of wild wise women around the globe in restorative movement, ceremonial arts, womens yoga, Maya abdominal womb centering, shamanism and folk herbalism, somatic healing, sotai, holistic pelvic care, reiki, tantra, south indian temple dance and a variety of global dance forms. More about Ixeeya at  WomensTent.com  
 
this episode Q&A includes:
• sore breast tissue- parsley poultice..
• hypericum species- perforatum is medicinal because it holds the red oil in it..
• histamines in the body freaking out causing excess mucous in the nose and eyes? find what is flowering, osha tincture..
• oil pushing or pulling?
• burning sores in the mouth- Saint Joan knows about burns, honey, cocoa and honey..
• craving chocolate? you may need more minerals..
• who is a woman? who decides? www.XXamazons.org
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Personal Transformation Helen McConnell

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Helen McConnell. Helen is a Personal Transformation Specialist. That means she can help you make the really big changes you want to make in your life – relatively easily and effectively. She specializes in helping people identify and release outof-date and limiting beliefs and old, negative thought patterns – those are the things that block us from reaching our big dreams. The majority of people live by default and habit - succumbing to repetitive thought patterns and unconscious beliefs. How would you like to Live by Design - where you consciously create your life? Helen can show you how. It’s not only possible, but the means to do so are literally at your fingertips! She works her magic with individuals and groups – in person, by phone, and by Skype.