New - Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Teana David.  Téana David is committed to nurturing the wisdom of the body.  She is the Director of Pilates Education at David Barton Gym Astor Place in New York City, where she teaches one-on-one apparatus sessions, mat classes, and leads Pilates teacher training courses.  Like her mentor, Joseph Pilates, she was a competitive gymnast growing up and studied many dance disciplines including ballet, tap and modern. Téana is an advanced Yoga practitioner of 18 years, is certified in Thai Massage, and recently completed a live-out Herbal Medicine apprenticeship with Susun Weed in the Wise Woman Tradition. She holds an MFA from the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University where she studied contemporary performance techniques with an emphasis in Somatic Movement. Téana's Pilates certification is in the lineage of Pilates elder Carola Trier and augmented by Irene Dowd's comprehensive Kinesthetic Anatomy course.   this episode Q&A includes: • Susun's preference on personal care products- shampoo, face wash, toothpaste and deodorant.. • yogurt- absolute star food- makes you more resilient.. • cystic acne- vitamin A and carotenes, clay, spiritual aspect.. • increasing nutrition for small child with a lot of food and environmental allergies.. • Barrett's Esophagus- slippery elm balls, linden, dandelion.. • bone broth additions of sea weed and mushrooms.. • high blood pressure- lack of sleep, exercise and motherwort or hawthorne..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Robert Weil. Dr. Bob discusses all aspects of sports medicine, shoes, youth safety, health, wellness, and sports performance for both adults and children.This includes injury prevention, current sports news, plus information in all areas of Sports Medicine - mental and physical - with an emphasis on the role of the foot and the use of orthotics. Dr. Bob is the host of The Sports Doctor, heard on http://www.healthylife.net, Wednesdays at 3 pm CT.  He was also formerly on WDCB 90.9 FM in Chicago for more than 20 years. His Sports Doctor newspaper column is also published in The Aurora Beacon News and the Naperville Sun. this episode Q&A includes: • cyst on breast or infected hair follicle? • 5 year old taking poisonous herbs with h pyrlori- important bacteria- can be present with no problems.. • keep in your heart and mind that your children are perfect- a gift every parent can give.. • effects of sauerkraut and yogurt are different- yogurt soothes digestive tissues- sauerkraut increases intestinal bacteria.. • motherwort tincture to ease children's fears.. • digestive upset arises from nervous system disruption that takes place while sleeping.. • estrogens and how they work throughout a woman's life.. • the liver is the guardian of the skin in oriental medicine- dandelion and burdock.. • comfrey for the skin.. • possible abscess on tooth- herbal anti infective- echinacea and poke tinctures.. • ongoing bladder infection and other possibilities.. • poke is the kind of thing to have in an emergency- benign thing- cleavers or chickweed.. • juicing throws away all food value and drink the sugar..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Angelo E. Volandes. Angelo is a physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the founder of Advance Care Planning Decisions, a nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging The Conversation through the use of videos. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. Through his vocation as a physician and the work of his nonprofit, Advanced Care Planning Decisions—which encourages The Conversation through patient videos—Volandes has dedicated his life to establishing a new standard of care. THE CONVERSATION is the essential guide that has long been missing from American medicine. It will embolden patients and inspire doctors to advocate for the choices that promote peace of mind and improve quality of life, because a life well lived deserves a good ending. this episode Q&A includes: • sleepless nights and menopause- nourishing adrenals with nettle infusion, stay in bed.. • distracted and emotional in menopause? ask family not to depend on you for 1 year.. • NHI's are a simple and deep way of nourishing yourself.. • successfully conceived with vitex, NHI's and animal fats at every meal.. • herbs for surgery and looking at other options.. • side effects from NHI's? drink less, rotate through all of them.. • chickweed slight blood thinner.. • poison ivy reaction or gingko reaction- osha root tincture seems to stop histamine reaction.. • clitoral tissue is non aging- calendula ointment.. • stroke victim and self care.. • eliminate heavy metals with seaweed.. • dream pillows- lavender, hops, cronewort..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Brigitte Mars. Brigitte Mars is an herbalist from Boulder, Colorado, with over 40 years’ experience in natural lifestyles. She is the author of  The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Country Almanac of Home Remedies, Addiction Free Naturally, The Sexual Herbal, The HempNut Cookbook, Rawsome!, and Healing Herbal Teas. She has a  private practice, helps out at Pharmaca,  and has a local weekly radio show on KGNU called Naturally. Check out her website http://brigittemars.com this episode Q&A includes: • infusions are food stuffs we have as normal part of our diets- rotate through all five! • eczema- plantain and comfrey leaf or comfrey root infusion soaked in.. • dog- skin irritation and hair loss- plantain oil.. • symbolic death state- menopause more powerful transition than puberty.. • walnut looks like a skull- connected to third eye and protection.. • ask a friend to be a guardian to cover your back.. • persistent athletes foot- hysterical hygiene, white vinegar, oak bark, golden seal and horsetail externally • sweet is the taste of life.. • find ways to be gentle, tender and precious with yourself..  

Susun Weed answers 75 minutes of herbal health questions. this episode Q&A includes: • birth control and birth control pills.. • making tinctures from fresh and dry plant material of usnea, osha and echinacea.. • during menopause- unless you have a problem that is going to kill you, stay away from doctors.. • syndrome- collection of symptoms- not a disease.. • PCOS is genetic, you are born with it.. • sabal palm- medicinal? • poke root can damage your kidneys- not to be taken in large doses.. • 'Down There' for information on herpes.. • Barrett's Esophagus- slippery elm and dandelion.. • rheumatoid arthritis- movement, pain management and astragalus.. •  sugar in the diet.. • acne, yarrow and koalin clay.. • and much more..  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions and 30 minute interview with Robin Fre. this Q&A includes: • spiraea is aspirin containing salicylic acid- Susun is more likely to reach for hypericum or skullcap.. • rudbeckia- interchanegable with echinacea- harvest as late in fall as possible.. • 33 years old and trying to conceive for 4 years.. • foot fungus- hysterical hygiene, soak in white vinegar, horsetail, goldenseal powder.. • making tincture with dried and fresh plant material.. • lead in soil and harvesting plants.. • being in menopause- no such thing as perimenopause.. • phytosterols in food- red clover is safe.. • nourishment through story medicine.. • taking care of your ovaries- gingko..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with EagleSong Evans Gardener .  EagleSong Evans Gardener dances her mischief in the hedge, the veld, that luminous place between wild and tended. She is a 3rd generation northwesterner raised on salmon and cedar long enough to find a root and love for a place she calls Home. EagleSong is a practicing herbalist in the wise woman tradition and a lifelong gardener. She is most at home cultivating life and watching things grow. Working with apprentices for over 25 years, her “Healing From the Ground Up” community centered herbal apprenticeship is a 9 month journey for the rigorous adventurer. EagleSong is known for her wit and kitchen table wisdom and her incessant need to go outside and play! She stays busy these days weaving the Pacific Women's Herbal Conference back into being and teaching at her home place, RavenCroft Garden and the flumdiddley kitchen school. Learning opportunities with EagleSong can be found online at:  www.ravencroftgarden.blogspot.com this episode Q&A includes: • sciatica pain relief- St. Joans Wort.. • insomnia.. • suffering? what's wrong with you, why have you chosen suffering? • anxiety- stop telling yourself these stories.. • hormones are not continually pumped into the body but are more like a sound wave.. lingering dry cough- sage tea with honey.. • you are not everybody- why are you trying to make yourself everybody- you are a unique human being.. • former smoker- mullein infusion and pranayama.. • nothing wrong with gluten- if you quit eating wheat you need to replace it with other grains.. • cysts in - chickweed tincture made from fresh herb.. • and much more.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Sandra Bevacqua. Dr. Sandra Bevacqua, a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, has worked as a research scientist at both the university and government levels.  Most recently, Dr. Bevacqua has focused on developing educational programs in the field of Holistic Women’s Health. Frustrated by the lack of options available to women faced with pelvic health concerns she developed The Pelvic Health Transformation Program, Pregnancy and The Pelvic Floor, and The Mystery is Over! Understanding Female Sexual Health in which women of all ages receive the complete education and the techniques needed to naturally recover from pelvic floor discomfort, pain and loss of function due to organ prolapse, incontinence, pelvic pain syndrome, as well as sexual misunderstanding or dysfunction. this episode Q&A includes: • poke root tincture- only one drop at a time!! considered a poisonous plant- use minuscule amount.. • anxiety and depression- taking motherwort tincture from fresh flowering plant- start with small dose and increase as needed.. • when making nourishing herbal infusions use one herb at a time.. • persistant pelvic pain.. • Dr. Duke's phytochemical and ethnobotanical database.. • harvesting nettle and making nettle soup.. • swollen lymph nodes in baby- cleavers.. • lip discoloration and heavy menses- yellow dock tincture, well cooked leafy greens.. • irritated toddler- trying to wean- sage infusion to dry up breastmilk- poppyseed milk to calm little one..