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Episodes

Tuesday May 06, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Karen Tate. Considered a trail blazer and visionary in her community, Karen Tate is an independent scholar of the Sacred Feminine, published author, lecturer, radio show host and sacred tour leader. Her weekly radio show, Voices of the Sacred Feminine, airs every Wednesday evening. As a sacred tour leader, she has had her passport stamped on five continents as she chased down sacred sites circling the globe.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• kidney infection in cat and using nettle infusion ..
• drugs have a direct action, whereas herbs are plants with 1000's of actions, a globe of actions..
• using yarrow orally and echinacea angustifolia internally to counter infection from root canal..
• using chickweed for sore eye socket from prosthetic eye ..
• changing things with nutrition works quickly..
• type II diabetes and polyphenols..
• breast tumor- mushrooms, the immune system and surgery as possible best option..
• how to prepare usnea as a tincture..
• go to the drug store as the best option for lice trearment as opposed to using dangerous and ineffective essential oils..
• and much more..
 

Tuesday Apr 29, 2014

Susun Weed answers 2 hours of herbal health questions.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• motion sickness, histamines, ginger, oatstraw and cutting out pepper..
• bipolar disorder, alternative lifestyles, lithium to function within society, NHI's..
• stinging nettle infusion to nourish and protect kidneys and counter type II diabetes..
• liver loving herbs- dandelion, chicory, milk thistle,..
• hawthorn is everything a heart could want and motherwort nourishing and tonifying..
• severe adema- poke root tincture has a powerful ability to remove excess fluid..
• why evening primrose oil is not needed in the last trimester of pregnancy.. 
• chemotherapy protecting herbs..
• witch hazel and parsley to change odors of the ..
• yogurt to assist the immune system by feeding gut flora..
• coltsfoot and its pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
• cronewort and other artemsias..
• black cohosh for menopause? Susun says no..

Tuesday Apr 22, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health Questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lynnie Vessels. Lynnie has a master's degree in Secondary Education and has been teaching English in the public school system more than twenty years.  She has taught over forty graduate education courses in the areas of communication and discipline, including Teacher Effectiveness Training, Self-esteem for Educators, Resolving Conflicts in Classrooms and Schools, Stress Management for Teachers, and Researching Today's Students.  She appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show and has traveled the country as a surprisingly candid motivational speaker and is the author of the book, To Soften the Blow  She lives in Virginia with her Maltese, Okie.  Visit www.lynnievessels.com for more information.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• honey is a soverign healer for wounds that wont heal..
• herbs to heal the immune system- astragalus and echinacea
• herpes like wounds with the possibility of being cancer..
root canal and using yarrow in the mouth..
• dropperful of St. Joan's Wort to prevent soreness
• if you wish to become a mother you must consume the gift of the mother- milk and grains..
• bacterial vaginosis..
• tick bite with head left in..
• burdock root vinegar..

Tuesday Apr 15, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Melinda Blau. Melinda is an award-winning journalist who has written fifteen books and more than 100 magazine articles and spent the better part of her 40-year career studying relationships. Since 2000, when she began collaborating with the late Tracy Hogg, Blau has been the voice of the bestselling Baby Whisperer books and her latest book, Family Whispering is the fourth book in the popular series. She is also a mother and grandmother.
this episode Q&A- includes: 
• breastfeeding, conception and increasing the luteal faze with wild yam..
• infusions instead of prenatal vitamins..
• mouth sores, herpes outbreak and using hypericum oil and tincture..
• using comfrey leaf infusion for torn ligament 
• using vinegar for nail fungus without soaking..
• red clover blossom compared to red clover herb..
• dangers of bio identicals- nourish your liver!
• help with tremors- NHI's and tincture of hypericum used as a nervine
• iron supplements are not absorbed well, try liver, yellow dock tincure, fully cooked greens..
• very bad pain in chest and the possibility of a heart attack- help with mothwort ticture..
• we eat for three primary reasons- nutrition, pleasure, community..
• endometriosis and using red clover infusion for fertility

Tuesday Apr 08, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sheri Samotin. Sheri is the founder of LifeBridge Solutions, LLC. She has worked with hundreds of families, helping Older Adults and their Adult Children deal with the challenges of aging. Sheri is a life transition coach, certified National Guardian, and certified Professional Daily Money Manager. She earned a degree in economics from Wesleyan University and went on to gain a master of business administration (MBA) from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Sheri is a prolific writer and sought-after speaker on topics related to navigating life's transitions.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• miscarriage/ retained tissue- make sure tou have support, go through the 7 medicines..
• genital herpes- St. Joans Wort, burdock root and echinacea root infusions and avoid raw foods and essentail oils..
• hydrogen peroxide kills cells and prevents healing- use yarrow tincture instead..
• puncture wounds can be soaked and echinacea tincture is always a good idea..
• uterine fibroids are so common! what causes them?
• high cholesterol..
• massage and alternatives to essentail oils- natural scent therapy..
• comfrey leaf infusion to heal bones..
• anxiety and stress- motherwort tincture made from fresh flowering plant, meditation, NHI's..
• yellow dock tincture to aid regularity..
• anxiety not just caused by the brain, but gut flora- eat at least a quart of full fat yogurt a week..
• and much more..

Tuesday Apr 01, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Zsuzsanna Budapest. Z Budapest is author of the acclaimed The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (1989) originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on guide to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. 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.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• calcium in herbs, food and supplements..
• make your diet as broad as possible..
• hypericum to prevent muscle soreness, also a powerful nervine, and to treat sciatica..
• nettle root properties and more on nettle can be found in Healing Wise..
• when there's a victim there is also a woman of power..
• estrogens- what they are and why red clover infusion and other phyto estrogen rich foods are better than estrogenic drugs..
• chickweed oil, full fat yogurt, nourishing foods and sexual activity to restore vaginal lubrication..
• Down There: Sexual and Reprodutive Health the Wise Woman Way for so much information on hemorrhoids..
• bed wetting in childhood..
• cranberry in any form can have an effect on bladder infections...
• ask yourself- can this be made at home or is it refined and concentrated?
• the broader our diets, the healthier our children! 
 

Tuesday Mar 25, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Gina Lake. Gina is a spiritual teacher and the author of twelve books about awakening to ones true nature, including From Stress to Stillness, Trusting Life, Embracing the Now, and Radical Happiness. She is also a gifted intuitive with a masters degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. The focus of her writing and teaching is on helping people be in the present moment and live the happy and fulfilled life that is possible and on shedding light on the ego and other programming that interferes with that.
this episode Q&A- includes:
• excessive sweating- sage infusion by the sip..
• irritated upper eyelids- try wet very warm cloth followed by applying honey
• loose stools- give the gut something to hold onto- whole grains and slippery elm..
• using a wide variety of active organisms found in yogurt, sauerkraut, kombucha and feed them with seaweed, mushrooms..
• cancer, chemo and not sleeping..
• milk thistle tincture while going through chemo..
• aromatic seeds such as fennel, corriander and anise seeds to release gas..
• dandelion root tincture before eating to help the digestive organs function..
• surgery- gather the loving kindness of those around us..
• hysterectomy- fight for your ovaries!
• do not mix herbs in infusions and use one full ounce of dried herb per quart jar of infusion..
• scleroderma- comfrey to loosen tissues of skin, linden infusion to stop inflammation..
• sinus infection- linden flower infusions, comfrey infusions, echinacea tincture..
• nerve pain- skullcap tincture made from fresh flowering plant..
• anxiety and stomach pain..
 

Tuesday Mar 18, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sara Wiseman. Sara is a spiritual teacher, intuitive and author of six insightful books on spirituality and intuition. She is the founder of Intuition University, hosts the popular radio show Ask Sara, and is a top contributor to DailyOM, VividLife, InspireMeToday and more. 
this episode Q&A- includes:
• making blood vessels more flexible by drink nourishing herbal infusions..
• encourage lung health with mullien milk and to make best use of oxygen at high altitudes with osha root tincture..
• thyroid nodules? try chickweed tincture to dissolve masses..
• adenomyosis and raspberry leaf infusions..
• pelvic floor and uterine prolapse..
• sprouts are not healthy or nutritious..
• vitex to bring on menstration..
• oxalate found in food..
• and much more..

Thursday Mar 13, 2014

This class is for registrants of Susun's Herbal-First Aid online course, offered at the Wise Woman University...if you want to join us for this eight week course, you can register at www.wisewomanbookshop.com
First hour of this teleclass will be lecture, followed by a 30 minute period for questions and answers (Q&A for registered students only please)...Susun will discuss and cover the following topics:
>>    How to Make and Use Infused Healing Herbal Oils from Flowers, Leaves, Roots, Barks, and Seeds
>>    How Infused Oils Differ from Essential Oils
>>    Choosing a Base Oil
>>    Examples & Questions

Tuesday Mar 11, 2014

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Andrea Mathews. Andrea is a psychotherapist with a thriving private practice, offering Transpersonal Therapy to her clients for the past seventeen of her overall thirty years? experience as a therapist, manager and a supervisor of therapists, in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health field. She is the author of two other books, Restoring My Soul: A Workbook For Finding And Living The Authentic Self, and The Law Of Attraction: The Souls Answer To Why It Isn't Working And How It Can, as well as several articles in national and international magazines, and several poems in literary presses. For the past five years she has been the host of the Authentic Living Show on VoiceAmerica.com. Learn more about her and her work at www.andreamathewslpc.com and at www.innerwings.com.
this Q&A- includes:
• fierce teacher- Susun Weed..
• genital herpes- hypericum perforatum, burdock root and echinacea root infusion for outbreaks..
• use only fresh plant material for making oils..
• thoughts of suicide and depression..
• grains and beans, the paleo diet, phytic acid, eating seeds, preparing seeds.. 
• roast nuts to remove anti-nutrients..
• cut on labia that is not healing- medi honey to the rescue..
• meditation for nerve pain..
• sinus infection- humidifier, horseradish, hot/cold foot bath, hot cloth across  the face.. anti infective- elderberry..
 

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