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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.
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Naturality Path’s Shivagi

Susun Weed answers (0 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shivagi. Shivagi's restlessness took her to a lot of ashrams and gurus, and brought her in touch with various philosophies and spiritual/healing teachings/practices. She did crazy travels, met interesting people under different circumstances, kept learning from her pleasant/unpleasant experiences, but something just did not fit in. She had not just been changing multiple jobs but frequently changing professions all together. When she had reached the peak of her internal crisis, in the October of 2016, quite unexpectedly, she met Jivasu in the town of Rishikesh and got introduced to Naturality. A peek into Jivasu's life and his unassuming ability to answer her incessant questions about everything, initiated certain kind of natural integration in her.
Shivagi currently resides in Dehradun and is the co-founder of Naturality programs in India. Her journey was never devoid of excitement and uncertainties, but she is now always full of boundless inner adventure which is finding a wholesome expression on her more conscious journey. Her website is www.naturalitypath.com
this episode Q&A includes:
• red clover blossoms- dying and buying..
• beginning menopause and needing alone time..
• being autistic and having your needs met..
• what you have to give is valuable and it's based on taking care of yourself..
• using nettle leaves and stalks before it flowers..
• psoriasis- try hypericum perforatum oil..
• lots of herbal options for breast tenderness..
• recently removed gallbladder- nourishing herbal infusions and eating less fat at one time.
• feeding babies- infusions and shopping for whole foods..
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Social Activist Stephanie Sellers

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Stephanie Sellers. Dr. Stephanie A. Sellers is a poet, a homesteader in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and a Native American Studies scholar who is dedicated to the healing of women and Mother Earth. She has just co-edited a book with the artist-scholar, Menoukha Case, about the Laguna Pueblo writer Paula Gunn Allen called Weaving the Legacy.  Stephanie is currently researching the hidden phenomenon of Family Aggression against daughters in patriarchal cultures. She created the organization, Sedna’s Daughters, to raise awareness and offer support for daughters who have been shunned by or are estranged from their biological families. Stephanie's website is www.sednasdaughters.com  and you can find her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SednasD/
this episode Q&A includes:
• the act of being alive creates toxins- liver and kidney function, persistent organic chemicals- supporting your liver, why it is dangerous to detox..
• diabetes- what not to eat, what to eat and when- possible to keep from progressing..
• giving up nighttime feedings with breastfed toddler to protect the teeth..
• 'Breast Cancer? Breast Health!' what's better than juicing? Macrobiotic, Mediterranean diet, herbal infusions, mushrooms...
• drinking water and distilled water takes down your electrolytes and compromises the immune system..
• sore mouth cancer and using sage..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Charlene Spretnak on Interbeing

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed bya 30-minute interview with Charlene Spretnak about her book Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Changing the Modern World.
this episode Q&A includes:
• summer bites and stings- putting plantain and yarrow to use.
• two young children- you need to prioritize time for yourself! Is it time to wean your child?
• acids in goat milk, other types of milk, culturing milk..
• harvesting and drying linden..
• migraines- hypericum! the great healer of the nervous system, herbal pain relievers, and healing sexual assault..
• treating people not diagnosis..
• familiarize yourself with your county extension to find where plants grow..
 
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Plant Medicine Singer Johanna Warren

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Johanna Warren. On the national US record release tour for her new album "Gemini II,"singer-songwriter Johanna Warren is blending her musical path with herpassion for herbalism. On her recent "Plant Medicine Tour," she aligned with local herbalists, farmers and activists in every city she visited to share about their work, sell their medicines and connect with their communities.
this episode Q&A includes:
• passionflower- passiflora incarnata is the only medicinal variety..
• monotropa uniflora is used incredibly sparingly..
• headache that has to do with the liver with pain behind the eyes- chinese medicine perspective..
• using hypericum perforatum for symptoms of Lyme..
• not recommended for anyone to be gluten free that is not celiacs..
• copperhead snake bite and options for herbs to relieve inflammation..
• why not to get a mammogram..
• creating a sacred time when bleeding can stop cramping- antispasmodic herbs..
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Mythic Medicine Amber Hill

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Amber Hill. Amber is a mother, herbalist, writer, teacher, podcaster, and river swimmer living in Northern California. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from UC Davis and is endlessly interested in exploring the depths of consciousness and how humans make meaning. Alongside herbalism, she has immersed herself in the study of genealogy and deep ancestry, psychedelic healing, float tanks, grief and trauma, mythology, mycology, conscious death and home funerals, and empowered menstruation, , and childbirth.
this Q&A includes:
• vitamin D supplements - supplements are partial.. getting vitamin D from the sun, and shiitake mushrooms..
• digestive fire does not stay strong as we age- no need to beat yourself up over it..
• thyroid- iodine test, Ryan Drum, seaweed..
• explanation of the menstrual cycle..
•  why to not use the word perimenopause- it is disempowering..
• cooking greens for at least 60 minutes..
• nettle infusions..
• when something upsets the mind, is there a belly ache to follow?
 
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for women and young girls.
this episode Q&A includes:
• cervical spondylosis- affirmations and visualizations give us our life back, comfrey..
• castor oil pack to treat bone spurs..
• every atom in my body is new every 7-10 days- atoms make up cells..
• a poultice or fomentation..
• low iron- red meat, liver, nettle infusion- plant iron needs animal iron to circulate in the blood..
• yucca used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis- desert southwest plant, preparations..
• soul retrieval by covering the body with the earth..

People’s Medicine Show

Sean is a shamanic herbalist, gardener, medicine maker.  You are invited to call in during the live show and add to the discussion, ask your questions

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Astrologer Virginia Bell

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Virginia Bell. Virginia Bell is a full time writer and astrologer. She has written horoscope columns for websites and magazines. She currently writes for Die Welt (the German publication) and Watch! the CBS magazine and blog for The Huffington Post. Virginia is the author of Midlife Is Not A Crisis: Using Astrology To Thrive In The Second Half Of Life. She currently lectures on astrology, inspiration and aging.
Before becoming involved in astrology she owned one of the first natural foods restaurants in New York City: Whole Wheat 'N Wild Berrys (from 1974-1995). She then went on to own a second restaurant in the Berkshires from 1988-1991. Virginia co-authored The Manhattan Health Pages: A Guide to Educate, Pamper and Inspire You. During that period Virginia also lectured on health and wellness.
this episode Q&A includes:
• basically all raspberry species are used the same medicinally- growing cycle and when to harvest..
• seeds of yellow dock used for medicine and food..
• making lavender sun tea..
• comfrey for closed injuries at the joint, muscles, ligaments, tendons and bones..
• cancer care and quality of life or quantity of life..
• cancer diagnosis- the first thing you're going to have to cope with is your fear and anxiety..
• homeopathy used to clear family tendencies- literally change at a genetic level..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Soulflower Oracle Deck Lisa Estabrook

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Estabrook. Lisa is an artist, graphic designer, mother, obsessive gardener and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years since graduating college trying to figure out how to live a healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s self-publication in the summer of 2016 launched Soulflower, Lisa’s heART based business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet through the power of art and flowers. Flower emPower! Her guiding principle is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower ourselves to live guided by the wisdom in our hearts rather than the voices in our heads. And this, she believes, is how we will heal this Earth.
this episode Q&A includes:
• baby with intermittent fever- what are the possibilities- treating bacterial and viral infections..
• torn off toenail on dog- plantain, yarrow..
• telling people what they like and don't like creates codependency..
• the less you say about others, the better off you'll be..
• most women have ended their periods by age 45-50- talking to your body..
• communicating with plants..
• making medicine from cleavers..
• annuals and perennials...
• wild lettuce- biennials and annuals..
• fennel seed tea to lower histamine..