New - Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Health and diet advice you can trust...Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview with real people making change. This weeks guest interview is with Terry Sobon. Terry is the creator of Beautiful Badass, a program designed to help women find the confidence to step out of feeling stuck and into habits that inspire positive change in their health, relationships, spirituality and purpose. As a Certified Holistic Health and Empowerment Coach specializing in women 35+, Terry works personally with her clients, supporting them every step of their journey to being their most badass! this episode Q&A includes: • tincture from fresh flowering plant of scutellaria lateriflora for pain relief.. • high cholesterol- eat no processed food, stop eating out, eat MORE butter, and check out Susun's course A Healthy Heart the Wise Woman Way  .. • seeds of squash.. • thyroid nodules- thoat chakra, speaking your truth and being heard.. • sexual abuse and learning to forgive yourself.. • persistent acne on face and taking medication- liver supporting herbs, yarrow tincture and drinking nourishing herbal infusions- especially linden.. • modern medicine is really good at focusing on the problem- not so good at making us healthy.. • borage contains paralyzadine alkaloids- safe to eat flowers in salads.. • osteoporosis and parasites are not related.. • you can drink nourishing herbal infusions while taking any drugs.. • motherwort, passion flower or hawthorn to lower blood pressure..

Health and diet advice you can trust...Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview with Sarah Salter-Kelly. Sarah's research and experience has led her to believe trauma is the source of violence, abuse and hate, (towards oneself or others) thus inspiring her to create personal empowerment programs with either a trauma or shamanic focus enabling participants to create the changes they need to heal. Sarah's training has led her to work with healers in the Amazon and the high Andes of Peru on eight separate occasions, as well as with elders in Canada and the U.S., pursuing shamanism, energy healing and personal growth techniques. Sarah is a Reiki Master Teacher, Alchemical Healer and Ceremonialist. Sarah has been teaching healing programs and offering one on one spiritual healing since 2007 on my land near Pigeon Lake Alberta, or at other facilities around the province. Restorative Justice techniques and practices have also made their way into Sarah's medicine bag. this episode Q&A includes: • nourishment is for everyone- nourishing herbal infusions are for everyone.. • yarrow kills bacteria that cause disease- works as a febrifuge.. • inflammation in the ear canal- willow bark contains salicin and works as an anti-inflammatory- roasting a whole onion and putting over the ear.. • open ulcerated sore under breast- poultice with plantain and honey as wound healer.. • non healing sore is an indication of cancer.. • chickweed tincture to shrink cyst.. • evening primrose oil- no evidence of any kind that it increases fertility.. • making echinacea angustifolia root tincture from dried root.. • seeds, berries and roots are the only parts of plants to buy dries to make tincture from.. • tooth with abscess- echinacea and poke tinctures..

Health and diet advice you can trust...Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview Vicki Noble. Vicki Noble is an artist, healer, and independent research scholar, and a foremother of the Goddess movement in the U.S. With Karen Vogel, she co-created the round Motherpeace tarot cards (1981), and she is author of eight books, including Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World (1991) and The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power (2003). She founded and directed a school for women healers in Oakland (1987-1991), has led groups of women on pilgrimage to sacred Goddess sites around the world, and travels and teaches internationally; her books are published in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, and French. She is a professional astrologer and teaches private tutorials at home in Santa Cruz, California, adapting Tibetan Buddhist Dakini practices for her mostly non-Buddhist students. For the last 10 years, she has spent part of each year transmitting these teachings to groups of women all over Italy. this episode Q&A includes: • tinnitus- changing the frequency of sound with visualization.. • no osteoporosis or thyroid testing during menopause- guaranteed to get wacky results.. • herbs grown in india and china tend to be sprayed with a lot of chemicals.. • use real tamari- not fake braggs.. • the health of the body depends on gut flora.. • bringing on menses.. • round worms- no herbal cleanses- go to a doctor and get drugs to kill round worms- more effective than herbs.. • fibroids and heavy bleeding.. • iron supplements are constipating and unabsorbable- red meat, yellow dock tincture..  

Health and diet advice you can trust...Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview with Jay Johnson. Jay graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 1962. He worked in Seattle radio. In 1975 he changed careers and became Executive Director of the Northwest Academy of Preventive Medicine until 1984. In 1984 he left the NAPM to offer recording services to conferences full time and formed the company Tree Farm Communications, Inc. Jay is not an herbalist, but has been awarded honorary Master Herbalist status by Dominion Herbal College for contribution to the advancement of herbal education. Jay married the owner of a local health food store, Bridget Doris Thompson. Jay has been a life-long motorcyclist. Jay served two terms as president of the Northwest region of the health food store trade association, The National Nutritional Foods Association and also served on its national board. Jay additionally has served two terms as president of the trade association for conference recording companies, The International Society of Communications Specialists. He is a member of Meeting Planners International. this episode includes: • do not use french press to make infusions- antioxidants react with oxygen during steeping process.. • why Susun uses 100 proof vodka for tinctures.. • ulcerative colitis- colonoscopy? very dangerous to health and does nothing to prevent colon cancer.. • black and blue cohosh should not be used to bring on menstruation.. • PCOS- check out Susun's book 'Down There'- insulin, testosterone, estradiol- motherwort, animal fat, herbal infusions.. • NHI's help clear the liver of hormones.. • amenorrhea- broad diet, animal fat, lunaception, not over exercising.. • vaginal steaming and other steaming methods..

Health and diet advice you can trust...Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview with Steve Williams has been earning the trust of American men and women looking to transform their love lives. He has been out there himself dating, making mistakes, and learning all the ins and outs of what it takes to meet quality members of the opposite . Steve has never spent time learning any “theory” or academic speculation. Instead, he’s been working with real-life people who needed advice that works. Good theories sound nice, but at the end of the day – results are the only thing that matter. Steve’s advice doesn’t just work for a certain “type” of person, or in a certain part of the world.  this episode Q&A includes: • thyroid nodule- support thyroid health with kelp, infusions and six steps of healing.. • we don't take infusions- we drink infusions.. • psoriasis under finger nails- rapid turn over of skin- comfrey compress.. • eating milk weed blossoms.. • harvesting herbs from the side of the road.. • there's no place to hide- toxins in water, soil and air.. • nanoparticles in sunscreen break blood brain barrier- use hypericum oil for sun screen.. • whooping cough- anti infective herbs, elderberry and sage.. • the function of the liver- highly regenerative- nourish with milk thistle, dandelion, chicory, burdock, yellowdock.. • hydrochloric acid in the stomach for digestion- dandelion..  

Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative 30 minute interview with Maida Silverman. Maida was born and has spent her life in New York City. The fantasy of a garden of her own, overrun with fruit trees, nut trees, flowers, berries, vegetables, and herbs has not yet come to pass. Because of this she turned her attention to wild plants that grow in the city and found them rewarding and engrossing. Herbal medicine in the sidewalk? Yes! Edible, medicinal and useful plants grow in the city as well as the country. With this book--A City Herbal by Maida Silverman--you can locate, identify and learn to use dandelion and clover as well as some more mysterious plants. You will find line drawings for identification; botanical, historical, and magical lore; information on how plants can be frozen, stored and preserved; and wonderful recipes. this episode Q&A includes: • astragalus to repel lyme disease.. • ovulation itself is damaging to a women's body and the role of birth control pills.. • breast cancer, breast tissue, progesterone and estradiol.. • personality disorder/ depression- medication can be an ally too.. • I am not okay, you are not okay and that is okay.. • liver, hormones and cholesterol- stinging nettle and red clover infusion.. • nettle helps every organ system.. • celery seed tea and uric acid.. • multiple cesareans- rotating nettle and red raspberry.. • releasing fear..

Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an informative interview with White Feather. White Feather is a holistic nurse (for over 40 years), a dancer, a choreographer, a peace elder, an herbalist and the founder of Catskill Mountain Herbals for over 30 years. White feather has shared the Seven Directions Movement Meditation with thousands of women from the Wolf Clan council of women, Susun Weed’s Wise Woman Center, Catskill Women's Drum Happening, Green Nations gatherings from USA to New Zealand and beyond.  She lives with her family and teaches in the glorious Catskill Mtns. Her primary teachers have been Keewaydinoquay, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch and Buddhist elder Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. White Feather received her initiation name from Grandmother Twylah, was told to use her name and share the Wisdom Wheel Teachings with all those who are willing to learn.    Website: www.catskillmountainherbals.com Topics covered in this show include: ~ Honoring our Menopause ~ Yarrow tincture heals skin problems ~ Sleep hygiene and sleep requirement ~ reduce mercury poisoning with seaweed therapy  

Susun Weed answers your health questions followed by an 30 minute interview with real people making change. This weeks guest interview is with Carrie Aulenbacher. Carrie was born, raised and live in beautiful Erie, PA.  Carrie is currently the Executive Administrative Assistant for the CEO of one of the largest family-owned logistics, trucking, and warehousing corporations, Lake Erie Logistics and Benco Leasing, in Erie where she has worked for the past 15 years.  When she's not writing romance, she works for iUrban.org magazine and Fridge Magazine as a contributing writer and also enjoys working with other authors in customizing FB pages for them or doing author audits.  this episode Q&A includes: • no liscensure or certification of any kind for an herbalist in the United States.. • Susun is a supporter of home herbalists using the herbs that grow right outside their door and sharing that knowledge freely- herbal medicine is peoples medicine! • invest in people being healthy.. • cold sore and herpes infections- hypericum oil and tincture.. • white pine needle can be harvested anytime of year.. • FDA and raw milk.. • 48 hours after rain to harvest herbs between the hours of 12pm and 2pm.. • burdock infusion and echinacea infusion to completely rid the body of herpes infection.. • when giving alcohol tincture to a cat always put in milk or cream.. • identifying flowering plants out of Peterson Field Guide • milk thistle tincture is a powerful protector of the liver from chemicals in the environment.. • when we know what we want we can attract that to us.. • carbon monoxide is not a pollutant to the plants.. • radiation is heavy and it sinks- cannot spread.. • only kelp seaweed has algin.. • wanting to conceive.