Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Beth Weinstein. As a spiritual business coach, Beth Weinstein helps current and aspiring spiritual entrepreneurs, healers, coaches, and leaders align with your purpose and grow your business so you can help more people, create consistent income, and have a business you love working from anywhere on earth! Using her experience growing multiple businesses (including three of her own), along with neuroscience-backed methodologies, spiritual teachings, and practical business action plans, Beth offers a multi-dimensional approach to help you move past limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles and grow your business in a successful, impactful way. She guides you in a step-by-step process to grow your business using a balanced, co- creative approach combining practical business coaching and heart-centered marketing strategies together with spiritually based mindset training and manifesting work. Beth is the founder of the "Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, Purpose & Business" free online conference; was co-creator of the "Music is Medicine" festival and "Urban Ceremony", a music-mind-body-spirit festival with the musician East Forest. Beth has spoken on multiple stages, podcasts, and summits, and has been featured in The New York Post, Huffington Post, Shape Magazine, and more. Learn more at BethAWeinstein.com and grab her free training “3 Steps to Get Clients & Grow a Thriving Coaching, Healing or Purpose-Based Business You Love!" at: BethAWeinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business Q & A topics in this episode include: visionary medicinecotton root barkbarberrysweat lodgeslong-time caller health update caller follow-up on hip issuesstagnationessencebipolar mood cycles

Susun Weed answers your herbal health questions. Susun Weed is loved and honored for her work in women’s health and herbal medicine. She is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, offering simple, safe alternative, complementary medicines. She directs the working of the Wise Woman Center, is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, and has been inducted as a Peace Elder. Susun uses her encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health in her service of all women. Ms. Weed is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, with six books in print (Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year; Healing Wise; New Menopausal Years, the Wise Woman Way; Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way, Down There Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way, and Abundantly Well). Find her books at www.wisewomanbookshop.com or at your favorite bookseller...Susun offers mentorship opportunities at www.wisewomanmentor.com  Q & A topics in this episode include: microbiomesmaking hawthorn berry tincturehyperthyroidismcervical dysplasianight time foot crampshemorrhoid follow-up calleronset of menopausehip replacementstructure, organization & schedulingendometriosisharvesting and using yellow dock      

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Olatokunboh Obasi. Olatokunboh Obasi is owner of Omaroti, an apothecary and wellness space located in Mayaguez, PuertoRico. Olatokunboh has been working in the wellness field for over 15 years. Sheis a yoga and dance instructor, clinical herbalist, nutritionist and birth doula. Committed to community holistic health, social justice, and education, she works heavily in community service and African Traditional Medicine. Presently, coordinates Herbalists without Borders International on the island providing community service to people in need. A guest presenter and teacher of many conferences she’s originally from Africa, her travels around the world are extensive as she integrates traditional knowledge of herbs, with her western education. She received her Master’s of Science from Maryland University of Integrative Health. Olatokunboh is a mother of 3 young adults. She continues to learn from her children through challenge and tribulation as she shares her journey of life with them and the human family.  www.wellofindigenouswisdom.com Q &A topics include: vaginal contractions and painpinched nerveinjured toenailantibiotic herbseffect of spearmint on estradioal productionusing asters medicinallyhemorrhoidsheart & blood pressure medicationsgeographic tongueshedding skinloose bowels

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with HeatherAsh Amara. HeatherAsh Amara is the author of the Warrior Goddess Training series, The Warrior Heart Practice, A Little Book on Big Freedom, Awaken Your Inner Fire, and co-author of The Seven Secrets to Happy, Healthy Relationships with don Miguel Ruiz Jr. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. HeatherAsh studied and taught extensively with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and continues to teach with the Ruiz family. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this openhearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings, which are a rich blend of Toltec wisdom, European shamanism, and Buddhism. http://www.heatherashamara.com Q & A topics in this episode include: hip & foot pain follow-upplanting boneset from seedlong term linden usemelanomaitchy skin discolorationallergic reaction to insect stingpain after walking exerciseposterior postioned fetus improving lung strength

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Selena Fox. Selena Fox is a Nature priestess, EcoFeminist, Pagan civil rights activist, Goddess Spirituality rituals facilitator, author, podcaster, teacher, spiritual psychotherapist and counselor.  Also known as Rev. Selena Fox, Selena is senior minister of Circle Sanctuary which has been serving Nature Spirituality practitioners of many paths worldwide with publications, events, networking, civil rights activism, and other services since 1974. A lifelong environmentalist, Selena is founder of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve located in southwestern Wisconsin, USA, which includes Circle Cemetery, a national Pagan burying ground that is among the first Green cemeteries in North America. Selena has a MS in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and does consultations, readings, and counseling by zoom and telephone with clients across USA, Canada, and beyond.  Selena's writings, rituals, chants, and photographs have been widely published on-line and in-print.  Selena hosts two weekly podcasts, Nature Spirituality and Nature Mystic on Circle Sanctuary's internet radio network, CSNP, and presents workshops and rituals at conferences and gatherings online and in person. She is founder of the Circle Craft tradition which blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, Hedgewitchery, Multicultural Shamanism, and Nature Mysticism. More info: www.selenafox.com & www.circlesanctuary.org Q&A topics in this episode include: chronic pain managementlyme disease & lymphoma in dogsboosting immunity w/ nourishing herbshigh blood pressureproblems with blue-green algae      

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed a 30 minute interview with her guest, Brighid Doherty. Brighid Doherty is an herbalist honoring the Wise Woman Tradition.  She resides on Deer Isle, a bridged-island in Downeast Maine.  Brighid is a passionate herbal health educator and a professional gardener.  She is the founder of The Solidago School of Herbalism.  Brighid began her connection with herbs while playing in her mother's gardens as a child, their scents and beauty attracting her curiosity. For the past two decades, Brighid has worked with medicinal plants in a variety of ways; as a student and a teacher, a gardener and a forager, a medicine maker and health consultant.  She received a BA focused in Organic Agriculture and Herbal Medicine from Evergreen State College.  She has had many wonderful herbalist mentors including Susun Weed, Rosemary Gladstar, Katja Swift, and KP Khalsa.  She teaches a variety of workshops for the home herbalist, including medicinal plant walks, herbal spas, an Herbs for Health series, and hands-on medicine making.  Brighid also offers an online course, called Nourish Yourself.  This course teaches how to incorporate common herbs, in simple ways, into daily life.  Brighid inspires people to be more self-reliant in their health and healing process.  She teaches the home herbalist how to bring herbal medicine into their lives by relating to plants in their bodies, kitchens, gardens, and the wild.   Q &A topics in this episode include: preventing & dealing with COVID19ganglion cystnerve painmuscle spasmsendometriosis/ fallopian tube blockagePTSDexercisedrying corn silkankle paincoronavirus vaccine/ flu vaccinetesticular cancerhibiscus infusionprobiotics

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events and trends happening in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed and guest, Lauren Cooper of Greenstar Farm and Apothecary   Lauren Cooper is an artist , farmer and  community herbalist living in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia. With her family she has owned and operated Greenstar Farm and Apothecary in Blacksburg, Va since 1991. As an herbalist she grows , forages, stocks and markets locally a large apothecary of medicinal plant preparations with the help of apprentices, and runs a small free and barter clinic. Inspiration from her herbal practice informs her work as an artist. Lauren is  the author and illustrator of : Greenstar Folk Herbal- Do It Yourself Plant Medicines For The People , published  in 2019  http://greenstarfarm.co/index.html https://campuslife.vt.edu/student_centers/Squires/Perspective_Gallery/medicine-show.html https://www.facebook.com/GreenstarFarmAndApothecary/ Q & A topics in this episode include: intestinal discomfortgoji berriesgetting rid of fleastincture teaherb infused oilsevening primrosehealing ancestral traumaalfalfa

Pamela Fischer is the founder and President of the Berkeley Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA. Berkeley Herbal Center is a non-profit organization serving the community through its Western Herbal medicine school, community clinic, and robust dispensary. It is one of the few schools in the country that operates a year-round community clinic on site. For 30 years Pamela has been studying plants and herbal medicine. After receiving her degree in eco-psychology, Pam became attracted to the herbal healing path and immersed herself into a well-rounded education provided by the insights and wisdom of Western scientists, Western herbalists, native healers, wise women, and witches. Her basket of tools includes Western herbal theory, Traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, Ayurveda, and Tibetan medicine. She has spent countless hours and days camping and hiking in our local woods, working with local plant medicine, and teaching about their use and conservation.  Pam is known as a visionary leader and grass-roots organizer. She has inspired generations of herbalists to be a stand for change in our healthcare system. Many of her graduates have and are currently creating similar establishments to provide services locally. In this vein, Pam endeavors to free her community from a broken system and move them toward an era of healthcare based on prevention, compassion, and care. Q & A topics in this episode include: organic vs non-organic alcohol for tincturesherbal vinegarsQueen Anne's Lacemanifesting with herbsblack currantsspell to deal with an annoying persondental care for dogslaundering with orange peelsedible landscapingchronically itchy palmscomfreymullien infusion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Rev. Maggy Whitehouse. Rev. Maggy Whitehouse is an independent sacramental minister (or Hedge Priest), a professional stand-up comedian and an expert and prolific author on Bible History and metaphysics. She began stand-up at the age of 56. Maggy has more than 30 years’ experience as a radio and television journalist and documentaries presenter and producer and was host moderator for the BBC’s Religion & Ethics message boards during the second Iraq war. Alan Bookbinder, head of BBC Religion and Ethics 2001-6 described her as ‘terrifying!’ She is the author of 17 published books including six on Judeo-Christian mysticism; China By Rail (Century 1988) and The Miracle Man, the story of what would happen if the Messiah returned today as a judge on America’s Got Talent. (The Miracle Man, O Books 2008). Maggy made it on to Wikipedia after writing a sensible book about Opus Dei at the time of all the palaver over The Da Vinci Code. She has been widowed, divorced and is now happily married to an astrologer which worries the Parish Council considerably. She has worked as a hospice chaplain, ridden on a Bengal tiger and survived a barracuda attack off the Barrier Reef. Both Maggy’s mother and her Bishop think she should get a proper job. Q & A topics in this episode include: fertility follow-uppost-menopausal sexual desirearnicaokraloss of energy after ovulationheart & bone health follow-up psychosis after having COVID 19

    Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minte interview with guest, Joyelle Petersen   Joyelle Petersen is a mother of four spirited children and a keeper of sacred rites. She has been in service to her Community for over 15 years devoted to honoring the sacred transitions of birth, ceremony, ritual, and death. She infuses her work with each family,client,and individual as a devotion allowing a personalized approach to meet the needs of the women and families she serves. The true essence of Joyelle's talents lie with the creation of women’s gatherings, circles, and honoring the ebb of flow of our internal rhythms. Ceremonial Practices have always been in the forefront of her work, and she believes through the blessings of celebration a great generational healing can occur. The lives Joyelle has been blessed to touch became her catalyst to create more intentional gatherings in the future.  Contact Joyelle Petersen on Instagram @warrioresswithin and on her webpages:  awakensacredretreat.com  and  awakeningjoyl.com Q & A topics in this episode include: MRSA follow-uporal irritation from oregano oil chagaacetominophen useweaning infant from breast milksupporting teen son's sexualityfood poisoningmasks and face shieldsslippery elm ballsshield ceremony

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events and trends happening in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Kerri Connor. Kerri Connor is the leader of The Gathering Grove – a family friendly earth based spiritual group - and has been practicing her craft for over 30 years. She is currently working on her 9th book and her writing has appeared in several Pagan magazines.  Kerri is a cancer survivor and holds a Medical Marijuana Card in Illinois where she lives with her husband, son, and a plethora of critters.  A graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Kerri holds a B.A. in Communications. She is working to convert a portion of their land into a spiritual sanctuary. Visit her online at www.KerriConnor.com. Q & A topics in this episode include: relationshipsasthma / shortness of breaththrush follow-uphip and lower back painconnecting with plantsHPVdonating herbs and herbal supplies

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Steve Blake, ScD. Steve Blake, ScD is a doctor of science specializing in nutritional biochemistry. He is a registered professional herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Master Herbalist. He is author of the worldwide database the Herb Doctors with 168,000 herbal facts. He is Director of Nutritional Neuroscience at the Maui Memory Clinic. He worked as Faculty Nutritional Biochemist at Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience for years. He just published a clinical study in the Journal of Brain Sciences on reversing dementia. He is research director at the Neuroscience Nutrition Foundation. He has presented grand rounds at many hospitals. He is recently credentialed to work in China setting up hospital programs to reverse disorders using nutrition. He is author of 16 major works on the effects of nutrition on health, including Nutrients for Memory (www.drsteveblake.com). Q & A topicx in this episode include: hydroxychloroquineLyme disease recoveryhealth care availabilityalcohol-free disinfectantsharvesting and using yarrowovarian cyst follow-upchoosing herbsatrial fibrillationloss of appetite due to medication

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Ellen Kamhi. A PhD, RN, AHG-RH, AHN-BC, _The Natural Nurse®_ has been involved in Natural Medicine since 1973.  Dr. Kamhi is a MedicalSchool Instructor, teaching Botanical Pharmacology, offers online and onground Herbal Certification Programs, and leads EcotoursForCures.com to indigenous areas of the world. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG-RH), and is an adept at radionics and dowsing. Author of many books including The Natural Medicine Chest, Arthritis, The Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide, and radio host, Dr. Kamhi educates professionals and consumers about how to care for themselves Naturally!   www.naturalnurse.com   Q & A topics in this episode include: heat intolerancethrushsore throat & blisters in the mouthinner ear troubles / balance issuesprevious caller follow-up re: chest pain