New - Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kim Rosen. Kim Rosen, MFA, is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background in spirituality and psychotherapy, Kim gives workshops and performances throughout the world, inspiring listeners with poetry’s power to transform individuals and communities. She is the founder of the Poetry Depths Mystery School and the S.H.E. College Fund, an organization dedicated to sending rescued Maasai girls to college. A TEDx speaker and co-creator of 4 CDs of spoken poetry and music, Kim has been on the faculties of Kripalu and Wisdom University, among other institutions, and her work has been widely published, including in O Magazine, The Sun, and The New Yorker. Kim's websites www.kimrosen.net and www.shecollegefund.org this episode Q&A includes: • weaning a child- there is very little in life we can feel proud of ourselves for doing... • menopause as a passageway to power... • schisandra for healing depletion that has occured through addiction... • passionflower for opiate detoxification... • dangers of methadone and nourishment while weaning off... • cyst on neck becoming painful... • food sensitivities and what's normal for you... • and much more...

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Gina Ogden. Gina Ogden is recognized as one of the creative masters in the field of sexology. She an adjunct professor at CIIS. She is founder of the 4-D Network for Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit, an international collaboration of practitioners whose mission is to expand the practice of therapy and therapy beyond performance goals and behavioral treatments. She conducts retreats and trainings internationally, lectures widely, and offers online courses for professionals. She supervises and trains therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, family therapists, and other health providers in her innovative Four-Dimensional Wheel approach.  www.GinaOgden.com, www.4-DNetwork.com  this episode Q&A includes: • no aromatic herbs for nourishing herbal infusions- only nourishing herbs! • recurring uti's- 'Down There'  The Bladder speaks- It all comes down to me. • hibiscus as an antibacterial.. • animals are the life blood of organic farms.. • how to make fertilizer from stinging nettle... • making apple cider vinegar and apple sauce.. • HSV- echinacea, burdock, st. Joan's wort and L-lysine.. • stretch marks- coconut oil, plantain oil.. • essential oils- scientific research backing their harmful effects.. • from restrictive diet to restorative diets.. • as we age being thin is a liability not an asset..  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Don Cerow. Don's a certified NCGR Level IV astrologer known for the warmth, insight and depth he brings to his counseling practice. An astrologer since ‘72, his interest has been in how astrology evolved from the mythology and astronomy of ancient peoples. He received a degree in Classics, Magna Laude from UMass in ‘76, wrote a weekly column (AthenasWeb.com) for various newspapers between ‘83 and 2010 (currently available through his WEBSite). In 2003 he reconstructed an early model of Stonehenge in a story picked up by the New York Times. He's produced shows for radio and television and taught at colleges, universities and planetariums across the country. In ‘05 he wrote and produced a multimedia show for Fiske Planetarium at the U of Colorado, Boulder entitled Star, Myths and Dragons, pushing back the limits of what our forebearers knew about the heavens. This same theme is now a book entitled When the Dragon Wore the Crown, available through Amazon or your favorite local neighborhood bookstores. www.athenasweb.com

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Mary Pat Palmer, herbalist,  is the founder and director of the Philo School of Herbal Energetics in Northern California. Her organic multi-planted farm is about 10 miles in from the great Pacific Ocean as the crow flies, and has 13 acres of redwoods sheltering and guiding the school. She grew up in the Big Sur area of California, where the mountain lions roamed amid the dramatic terrain. She has studied and lived in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as her native California. She is a Registered Herbalist as well as a Certified Cannabis Therapy Consultant. Susun Weed is one of her favorite people but doesn't visit often enough. this episode Q&A includes: • improve digestion with whole grains, nourishing herbal infusions... • damaged fascia and scar tissue- calendula oil and ointment... • comfrey infusion drunk and used in sitz bath to strengthen skin, ligaments, tendons and guts- stronger and more flexible tissue... • oatstraw infusion has superb healing powers on disturbed mental states... • removal of wisdom tooth- motherwort tincture for anxiety and yarrow as a dentifrice.. • very small dose- one drop of poke root for swollen lymph node... • broody hen- get baby chicks.. • low vitamin D levels and olive oil use...

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sarah Marshank MEd. Sarah is the the founder of Selfistry, a comprehensive integrative educational system for mastering the art of being human. She is the author of theBeing Selfish: My Journey for Escort to Monk to Grandmother. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Sarah teaches and speaks internationally, facilitates on line courses, and works one-on one with individuals. Sarah's embodied teaching and presence come from spending ten years in retreat. Her life’s purpose, articulated and expressed through Selfistry, integrates Eastern and Western philosophy and psychology with meditative and somatic practices.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Martina Hoffman. Martina Hoffmann works as a painter and sculptress and is a central figure in contemporary Visionary Art. Her paintings offer the viewer a detailed glimpse into her inner landscapes - imagery that has been inspired by expanded states of consciousness. The Visionary Realism of Martina Hoffmann is decidedly feminine and places the ‘Universal Woman’ in an intimate cosmos. She transcribes her ecstatic experiences but also her subtle reflections on the nature of women in a realistic style which marries the fantastic to the sacred. Martina Hoffmann has also created original art and photography for numerous CD as well as book and magazine covers. The artist keeps a home and studio in both, the USA and France and has exhibited her work internationally since 1985. Website: www.martinahoffmann.com    

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Pam Montgomery. Pam is an author, teacher and practitioner who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades.  She is the author of two books one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology and people as Nature Evolutionaries. She is a founding member of United Plant Savers and more recently the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE. Her latest passion is to engage ceremonially in full symbiosis within the plant/human matrix where the elder common plants initiate and guide us into being truly human. this episode Q&A includes: • dyshidrotic eczema- soak in and drink comfrey leaf infusion   • mantra, prayer, wise woman philosophy, buddhism and meditation... • milk thistle protects the liver.. • what plant to plant in place of grass that are drough resistant- thyme and chamomile.. • poultices for fatty lymphoma.. • getting off antihypertensive drugs- nourishing herbal infusions, movement, blood pressure monitor- motherwort, passionflower, hawthorn... • acid reflux- dandelion tincture... • lose weight? replace the a in fat with an i... • rheumatoid arthritis- severe joint pain- high cbd cannabis tincture, creams and oils... • depression in women- GET ANGRY and take action...        

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Matthew Wood. Matthew Wood has been a practicing herbalists for almost thirty-five years.  He began as a shop clerk in an herb store – a great way to learn.  He loves to teach and write about herbal medicine and is widely known for these activities.  He particularly likes the history of herbalism, historical uses of plants, energetics, and the interface with shamanism.  Plants can be our teachers, inward and outward.  He lives near the Twin Cities in summer and Lake Co., California, in the winter.     this episode Q&A includes: • what conditions makes nettle grow prolifically? • poke root is very strong medicine- harvested and tinctured in the fall... • explanation of food born illnesses opposed to parasites- wormwood tincture and slippery elm balls... • for the eyes- blueberries, well cooked tomato sauce, dandelion leaf vinegar... • resistance to something you need to do and setting up a reward system and doing it... • 2 year old with outrageous temper- let it out and then is fine- it's healthy... • grandparents vow- not to say anything about their children's parenting... • celandine destroys abnormal cells in skin growths.. • clary sage.. • when to harvest stinging nettle... • alfalfa and why Susun does not use it...