Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest Alicia Patterson. Alicia Patterson, MA, LPC, R-DMT, LMT, CYT, is a Women's Pelvic Health Mentor. Alicia runs a thriving women's health practice in Colorado (and virtually) offering hands-on female pelvic health work (pelvic floor therapy, organ placement work, & endocrine / nervous system based bodywork) coupled with trauma informed care, emotional & spiritual permission, and psychologically sound ethical consent based touch work.  Alicia is most interested in what's beyond the world of pathology and bypass and approaches clients with a completely holistic lens and treatment plan. Alicia runs a women's group, works with clients 1:1, offers retreats and intensive work, plant medicine, and teaches a training for practitioners to enter this powerful field. For more information, visit Alicia's website: www.alicianpatterson.com Q & A topics include: miscarriagedealing with emotional & physical discomfortcaller follow-up: dizzinessgrieving end of relationshipganglion cyst8 month old child with benign brain tumorchronic fatigueanger

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest Marilyn Harper. About Marilyn Harper: She’s been called the “Midwestern Spiritual Sparkplug...” and the Bette Midler of the Mystical movement. Marilyn is a renowned public speaker, facilitator, Spiritual teacher and channel of Adironnda & the Council of Light. She is invited back again and again as a featured speaker at conferences, retreats and workshops for her warm, authentic and off-beat stories of personal transformation – delivered in a way that’s hilarious, heartfelt and inspiring. Marilyn is an internationally recognized expert on the walk-in phenomenon, and is the creator of Holographic Healing, a 5-part certification course in alternative healing. She is also a Reiki Master, Karuna Master, Certified Peak Potentials Trainer, Certified Intuitive Consultant and Quantum Touch practitioner. In her work as a speaker, facilitator and healer, Marilyn’s goal is to provide fun experiences and practical methods to help people laugh, love, and live the life they are here to live in joy, peace, love, and laughter.She is the “divine link” for Adironnda, a spokes-being from the 17th Dimension who help you learn to “be the love that you are.” Through Marilyn, Adironnda provides a loving and funny message that opens the heart for healing. She says, “Our” purpose is to remind you what it feels like to be held in unconditional love and gently assist in healing the heart for the betterment of humanity. Q & A topics include: premature ventricular contractionherb/drug interactionseye pain/ swollen eyelids/ dry eyesense of smell post-Covid19pokeweedharvesting nettle & comfreychronic UTI'smoles/skin tags under breastsprotruding leg veins

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest Joann Calabrese. Joann Calabrese is a skilled wellness, mindfulness, and recovery educator. She is a lifelong organic gardener and herbalist, experienced in meditation, ritual work, qigong, and tai chi. Joann combines these intersecting disciplines in her writing, workshops, and coaching to assist others in healing themselves and the world. Joann's book, _Growing Mindful – Explorations in the Garden to Deepen Your Awareness, _provides the tools and creative ideas for interacting with the green world in an energetic and meaningful way. The goal is connectedness - the intuitive  understanding of being part of a larger circle of life on the planet. When we begin to experience the visible and invisible energies that touch us all, we tap into tangible support, nurturing, and wisdom. Engaging with gardens is healing on many levels, but people often overlook the energetic component of working with plants. Joann's work focuses on this connection and provides guidance for engagement. www.mindfulnessgardengames.com  Q & A topics include: ear infection/possible spider bitemenstrual crampscooking and eating ricetype 2 diabetesscales for weighing herbsemotional trauma after car accident with deerharvesting stinging nettleharvesting horsetail      

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Lorene Wapotich. Lorene Wapotich founded Celebrating Her Rite to help women mentor and celebrate girls as they grow into womanhood. She's an herbalist, wilderness guide, and accomplished educator who has been designing and leading nature-based programs for girls for more than 25 years. She also trains women, especially moms, how to create meaningful and magical Coming of Age ceremonies that help girls develop confidence, courage and grit. She loves to play, tell stories, and sing songs, and is the mom of two teen step-daughters. https://celebratingherrite.com Q & A topics include: St Joan's Wortscar tissue in vaginal and anal area/ painful penetrationcolonoscopy/colon polypsmotherwort & hawthorn for heart healthmaking tincturesblack currantrosaceaharvesting linden flowerwormwoodhealing childhood trauma/letting goinducing menstruation/cycle resetchronic skin conditions

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Jacqueline Kane. Jacqueline Kane is a Medical Intuitive and Stop the Pain Specialist. She supports women in discovering the crucial hidden links between their physical pain and finances, and their ability to live a full life. Jacqueline has over 20-years in private practice as a healer, and over 35-years in health care. She has merged her innate wisdom with a multitude of healing modalities to create a unique, results-oriented method of healing. Jacqueline uses tools like Ancestral Energy Clearing, Hypnotic EFT and modalities to get to the root cause that is keeping people in pain and keeping them from being invincible and living their dream life. www.jacquelinemkane.com Q & A topics in this episode: extracting mucilage from linden infusioncysts/scar tissuecooking and freezing greensusing different herbs for nourishing infusionseating peppersshelf life of tincturesechinacea purpurea vs augustifoliaChinese skullcapanxiety/anger/taking actionsunscreen

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Forrest Rivers. Forrest Rivers is a writer, teacher, and speaker who splits his time between the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and the Colorado Rockies. His personal journey of awakening began at the age of 30 on an awe-inspiring trip to Maui, Hawaii. It was there on that enchanted island where the profound healing power of the Earth spoke through to his heart and helped him overcome a difficult period of alcohol abuse. After returning home from that transformative experience, Forrest became interested in the spiritual traditions of the Far East and began to immerse himself in the teachings of Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist mystics and took the pen name Forrest Rivers in honor of the Earth and her profound healing power. Today, Forrest is a teacher of meditation and has started meditation gatherings at each of the schools that he has taught at during his over decade long run as a community college professor. Today, Forrest spends a great deal of his time guiding others to look within and become the best versions of themselves. In the very near future, it is his dream to start a wilderness retreat center that focuses on the spirit of service and inner work. He is the author of two books: The Hippie Revival and Collected Writings as well as COVID-19 and Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening.  Learn more at ForrestRivers.com and COVID- 19book.info  Q & A tpoics: listener/student appreciation of Susun's teachingmotherworttincturing with fresh & dried herbsseasonal & pet allergy reliefelecampanetonifying lungs with mulleinprojecting singing voicenerve pain/ scoliosismononucleosisSusun's personal tincture use

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest Joann Calabrese. Joann Calabrese is a skilled wellness, mindfulness, and recovery educator. She is a lifelong organic gardener and herbalist, experienced in meditation, ritual work, qigong, and tai chi. Joann combines these intersecting disciplines in her writing, workshops, and coaching to assist others in healing themselves and the world. Joann's book, _Growing Mindful – Explorations in the Garden to Deepen Your Awareness, _provides the tools and creative ideas for interacting with the green world in an energetic and meaningful way. The goal is connectedness - the intuitive  understanding of being part of a larger circle of life on the planet. When we begin to experience the visible and invisible energies that touch us all, we tap into tangible support, nurturing, and wisdom. Engaging with gardens is healing on many levels, but people often overlook the energetic component of working with plants. Joann's work focuses on this connection and provides guidance for engagement.  Website: www.mindfulnessgardengames.com       

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest Megan Rae. Megan Rae is a community herbalist, permaculture facilitator, healing artist and holistic wellness educator rooted at Living Hearth Farm, a homestead and creative studio in Northwest Wisconsin. She has taught with Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine, the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Gathering of the Guilds permaculture convergence, along with creating and co-facilitating the Open Hearth PDC with her partner. Megan is the host of Nature Remembered Podcast and contributor with Land by Hand, a permaculture education and media platform empowering regenerative lifestyles through traditional skills and stories.  landbyhand.org livinghearthfarm.com Q & A topics in this episode include: deer ticksastragalusdizziness caused by allergiesswollen lymph node in groin areaacting from fearcleaverschia seed balls & bacon barshealing incisiontoddler sleep schedule

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Cat Pantaleo.  Cat is a Holistic Health Practitioner with over 20 years of professional experience as a consultant, instructor and nature guide. A core belief of hers is that health is a journey in which the goal is not perfection, but a life infused with meaning and purpose through self-exploration and growth, connection and joy. She is trained as an Herbalist, Naturalist, Nutritionist and Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. Additionally, Cat is a Youth Nature Connection Mentor, a practitioner of Non-violent Communication, and most recently received her Master's degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University. She skillfully weaves these aspects into her work creating opportunities to cultivate resilience, restoration, deep nourishment and a re-connection to one's authentic, wild self.  Her work is ultimately informed by Nature Beings and guided by an impassioned desire to restore respect and reciprocity between humans and the natural world, re-awakening our innate human capacity for caring and cooperation in order to re-establish an Earth-honoring way of being so that all life may flourish. Q & A topics in this episode include: edible tree blossomseating for energy before and after exercisehyberaric therapywhite pineoxidized tincturemucilage in linden infusionwhite vs red cloverdead nettlebulging veins/bruising on shoulderidentifying stinging nettlewater filtrationusing comfrey, plantain, & yarrowcooking vegetablesgetting rid of meal moths in the pantry  

Susun Weed answers 90 inutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Brooke MedicineEagle. Brooke MedicineEagle is a legendary indigenous Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, healer, visionary, singer/songwriter, shamanic practitioner, ceremonialist, carrier of women's mysteries, sacred ecologist, and catalyst for wholeness. She is the  author of the American native literary classic, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and of The Last Ghost Dance. Her music recordings, teachings, writings, and wilderness spiritual retreats have touched the hearts and minds of people world-wide. Brooke is an elder sister and guide, offering a lifetime of ancient & modern wisdom for your wellness, thriving & prospering. She is currently working internationally, offering a heart-centered, ecologically sound, healing way for the flowering of individuals, Mother Earth and All Our Relations..   www.MedicineEagle.com  Q & A topics in this episode include: parasite infectiontick bite/Lyme diseaselower back paindandelion wine storageshisohow much infusion to prepare at one time and how oftenblue pollenusing whey as a fertilizereye pain and irritationfungal skin infectionbeeswax products

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal questions followed by a 30 minute interview. Sarah Ellen, the show's moderator, shares her personal experience allying with poison ivy. Sarah Ellen is a student of life. She cherishes the opportunity to live with awareness, and experience the wholeness of being alive. Sarah Ellen lives at her home, Heartsong, in Barrington Hills, Illinois with her husband Jay, and their dogs, cats, goats and chickens.  She intends each day to know and remember her inherent connection with the Earth and all the magic and beauty that surround her. Sarah Ellen has studied virtually with Asia Suler, and personally with Linda Conroy, Pam Montgomery and her lifelong teacher and kindred Susun Weed.  She gives great regard and gratitude to her unconditionally loving teachers and co~creators the plants, animals, elements and the well~spring of her own  blood and bones that hold the memories and knowings of all the Wise Women and their sons, who came before her.  What gifts could be received from a poison ally? During a 2015 three season herbalism class at the Resiliency Institute in Naperville, Illinois taught by herbalist Linda Conroy Sarah Ellen found out. Asked to choose a plant ally Sarah asked that the plant choose her. Though not who she expected, when Poison Ivy appeared it was an invitation too curious to pass up. Q & A topics in this episode include: discomfort in left side under ribssubstitutions for 100 proof vodkavegan diets and breast cancer survivorsadrenal fatiguemaggot debridementyearly physicalsbuying herbstickssoftening scar tissuefertility testing

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Linda Conroy. Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Wise Woman, Bioregional Herbalist, A Wild and Whole Food Afficinado and a Community Organizer. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries, a Women's Mushroom Gathering.  She lives at her homestead in southern Wisconsin with the plants, mushrooms, ducks, chickens, rabbits, honey bees, great pyreness and familiar felines. She teaches classes and runs apprenticeship programs based on the wise woman tradition. She can be reached at www.moonwiseherbs.com or midwestwomensherbal.com Q & A topics in this episode include: caller follow-up: dog with pressure sorevisual disturbances following physical exertionscalp infectionfacial acnewillow barkbrahmibrain fog/improving sleep qualitycorneal abrasionallergic reaction/vaginal distress

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Maureen Smith. Maureen Theresa Smith is a writer, activist, and mom with a background in healing arts. She defines her life work as integrating spirituality into everyday practices and rituals that are inspirational and fun, in order to support girls and teens in becoming whole, strong women. Her company, Indigo Blooms offers personal coaching, support circles, workshops and products to empower girls* and those that care for them by enhancing intuition, awareness, and inner-authority with beauty, joy and a fierce commitment to self-love and compassion for all. Maureen offers visionary coaching and to girls and women in times of transition and facilitates Indigo Circles for tween and teen girls. She authored First Moon, Celebration and Support for a Girls' Growing Up Journey, New World Library, Spring 2005 and recently, Your Moontime Magic, A Girls Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body, New World Library, 2020. Q & A topics in this episode include: menopausal fatiguegallbladder painChinese herbal preparationsfacial skin complexion100 proof vodka for tintcuringcyst in the breast areacaller follow-up: improved blood pressure with yarrow and garliclindenflouride

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Lisa Levart. Hudson Valley artist and photographer Lisa Levart is on a mission. Goddess on Earth, her life long assignment, celebrates contemporary women while drawing upon ancient stories to elevate their life journeys. Her archetypal imagery is created through the eyes of love to inspire other women to be their most powerful selves. For over twenty years, Lisa has traveled the world creating iconic portraits that reveal the spirit of independent girls, ferocious women, powerful warrior activists and epic elders, and weaves together the personal and collective journeys of women's lives. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in the permanent collection of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC. Projects have generously been supported by the NY State Council of the Arts and in 2015, 2018 and 2020 her work was recognized by the Julia Margaret Cameron Award's for Women Photographers.  Her first book, Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine, won a Gold Nautilus Book Award and was named one of the 100 Best New Women's Spirituality Books by the California Institute of Integral Studies.   In June 2021, Goddess on Earth Oracle, A Divination Deck and Guidebook With Spirited Wisdom From Your Sisters will be released. Q & A topics in this episode include: fungal infection of the mouthdistorted sense of smell post-covidcaller follow-up: seasonal allergiesusing herbal simples vs herbal combinationsoveractive bladder bell peppersretinal tearkidney distressherbal infusionssugar cravingsdepression & ADHD

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Dr. Martha Libster. Dr. Martha Libster is an international expert in the practice of nurse-herbalism, integrative nursing, and botanical self-care. Her work advances the art and science of nurse-herbalism and has been disseminated through publications, presentations, and community events on five continents. Her practice models on integrative nursing, health culture diplomacy, and precision botanical self-care have contributed to global health transformation, policy reforms, and wellness innovations. Dr. Martha is the author of 9 books. Her award-winning history, Herbal Diplomats (2004), documents the lost history of 19th century American nurses’ leadership during a nationwide healthcare reform movement focused on botanical self-care. Dr. Martha is now expanding her nurse-herbalist work to the public through her Self-care Institute and Self-care League. Her latest book, Gentle Medicine for Balance in Body and Peace of Mind, was released in 2020. It introduces her Elements of Care® program, a self-care program that builds on nursing’s centuries-old practice of precision self-care with plants as partners. www.GoldenAppleHealingArts.com www.DrMarthaLibster.com Q & A topics in this episode include: caller follow-up: UTIlidocainecataractsprednisonebeech saplings and fiddlehead fernstick bitescannabis tincturefragrance sensitivitiestinnitusheart health issuesinfusions vs tinctures