Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Tonight's topic is good enough. Do you feel good enough, do you feel  good enough as you think you feel?

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Marguerite is an RN, Clinical Herbalist, Wild Crafter and, is also a cautious wild foods forager. She is co-founder and director of Plant Pioneers, a Human-Plant Relations Movement, where her work invites the beginner to the experienced to become interested in plants, through hands-on, outdoor Nature experiences, that bridges wild crafting, traditional herbal medicines, plant intelligence science and phenomena. In recent years, her outdoor explorations have additional tools that connect humans to plants: Music of the Plants and Cymatics.  Lacy Johnson - co-founding Plant Pioneers member; she was born and raised in Texas and moved to the Catskill area in 2015. The move led her to her current studies in herbalism with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, where she is now entering her 2nd year. Additionally, Lacy plans on adding to her studies as an ecology major in the near future.    

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Julie Charette Nunn. Julie, Crow's Daughter is a shamanic herbalist and long-time teacher, herbal crafter, organic gardener/farmer, goat herd and successful business owner from Whidbey Island in Washington State. She teaches listening as a way to gain access to the abundant wisdom in nature, and supports people to open themselves to greater possibility by sharing their gifts. She offers shamanic herbal apprenticeships, wisdom circles, home study courses and individual mentorships sessions in the shamanic herbal tradition of the wise woman.  She also offers hand-crafted, nourishing herbal products.  Julie's specialty is connecting people in nature to learn more deeply who they are. this episode Q&A includes: • vitamin supplements are made by large petrochemical companies that sell these drugs to smaller suppliers that make their own products from them.. • smoking is a very shamanic act, humans are the only sp

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions follwed by a 30 minute interview with Seren and Azra Bertrand.  Azra Bertrand, MD and Seren Bertrand are founders of The Fountain of Life Grail Mystery School, and authors of the groundbreaking new book “Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life” that has been described by New York Times bestselling authors as a “masterwork of beauty, power and mystical truth”, a “magical sacred feminine transmission” and a “mystery school in a book.” this e pisode Q&A includes: • the royal road to learning about plants is to learn about plant families.. • all B vitamins are sensitive to temperature- available in whole grains, beans, eggs, dairy, fish... • check out 'New Menopausal Years' appendix on specific nutrients and what to find them in.. • geographic tongue- mucilage in second brew of comfrey infusion, plantain seed, slippery elm, marshmallow root.. • keeping your pet healthy and why worm medication is the best option for dewormi

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Linda Conroy. Linda Conroy dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. She is a practicing herbalist, providing herbal education, workshops and apprenticeships, as well as individual consultations. Linda also holds two masters degrees: MSS (Master of Social Service) and MLSP (Master of Law and Social Policy). Linda is a community organizer and the founder of the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. Linda's primary human mentors are Susun Weed, Isla Burgess and Marshall Rosenberg. She has taken classes with a whole host of other herbalists and personal growth activists. from far and wide. She always appreciates new perspectives.    

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal questions. this episode Q&A includes: • compulsively cold - warming adaptogen American ginseng.. • menopausal anxiety- motherwort tincture taken as often as every 15 minutes.. • resentment kills whatever it touches- having patience and love for your life as a daily householder.. • in order to get nutrition from plants, the cell wall of the plant needs to be broken.. • over 4000 types of minerals on the planet earth, each plant chooses what it likes- reason for eating a broad diet.. • not that it is not healthy to drink tea- it healthier to drink nourishing herbal infusions.. • plantain ointment/ salve/ spit poultice stops itching.. • don't change your diet, let your diet change you.. • plantars  fasciitis turned to neuropathy- are you eating red meat, tai chi and chi kung brings energy into feet.. • oral contraception- stops ovulation by tricking the body into thinking it's pregnant..  

Sean is a community herbalist, medicine maker and gardener based in the southwest United States.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Hearth Moon Rising. Hearth lives in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where she practices a nature-based craft. She is an ordained priestess in two traditions (Dianic and Fellowship of Isis) and has taught magic for over twenty-five years. She is the author of Divining with Animal Guides: Answers from the world at hand and Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess. this episode Q&A includes: • routine pap smears- do you need them? • uterine polyps- ultrasound and biopsy- do we need to appease others out of fear? • yarrow as a dentifrice, why not to use glycerides, what part of the plant to use and why.. • middle ear infections in 4 year old- antibiotics are not working, how to use echinacea, and why tubes are a good idea.. • over 200 cold viruses- your child is not unhealthy for getting sick, teaching the immune system how to work.. • tincture of licorice or powdered preparation

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Rythea Lee. Rythea is a professional dancer and multi-disciplinary artist giving voice to personal and global stories of healing. She produces and directs performances that activate intensity with humor, highly physical dance with spoken word, and social commentary with personal story. She is a trauma and abuse counselor for 23 years and is devoted to helping people recover and thrive after surviving unspeakable atrocities. She published a book called Trauma into Truth: Gutsy Healing and Why It's Worth it, an upbeat and practical book about what the journey of healing looks like, where it leads, and why it's worth it. Her aim to both heal and entertain combines at the deepest level in her on-line Youtube show called Advice from a Loving Bitch. The show uses zany humor, therapeutic monologues, compelling interviews, and dance parties to teach people how to transform crippling self-hatred into lasting self-love. It s

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shiela Baker. ShamanWeaver Shiela Baker helps people find passion, purpose & prosperity & feel better than they ever have!She is an author of two books on Shamanic journeying.  With Soul retrieval and After-Care, opening the Akashic Records or shamanic counseling she assists people with PTSD depression and anxiety.  Shiela facilitates profound life changes in her 6 months Cedar or her year-long Sage shamanic programs. By utilizing powerful spirit guides you have access to the realm of non-ordinary reality in which all healing is possible.  Her insights, humor, and compassion create an atmosphere for empowered growth and healing. Join Shiela in Shamanic Spirit School or a seasonal retreat.  this episode Q&A includes: • philosophy of cancer- supplements vs food and why you get more nutrition from nourishing herbal infusions as opposed to supplements.. • plantain is a miracle healer.. • motherwort tinc

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Katherine MacLean. Katherine is a research scientist, teacher and meditator. In her academic research at UC Davis and Johns Hopkins University, she studied how psychedelics and mindfulness meditation can promote beneficial, long-lasting changes in personality, well-being and brain function. In New York, she co-founded and directed the Psychedelic Education & Continuing Care Program (www.psychedelicprogram.com), focusing on group integration for psychedelic users and training workshops for clinicians. She currently lives on an organic farm and is preparing to be a study therapist on an upcoming Phase 3 trial of MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder. You can learn more about her work on her website: katherinemaclean.org this episode Q&A include: • papaya leaf as remedy for cancer.. • soy milk, ginseng, gingko- protection from radiation treatment.. • Ask your doctors about the risk of the risk- statistic

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by  a 30 minute interview with Donna Henes. Donna is an internationally renowned urban shaman, contemporary ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published four books, a CD, an acclaimed Ezine and writes for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum. A noted ritual expert, she serves as a ritual consultant for the television and film industry. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancy in Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she  offers intuitive tarot readings, spiritual counseling and works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable o

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Barnett. Lisa Barnett is the internationally recognized bestselling author of "The Infinite Wisdom of the Akashic Records" and her newest book “From Questioning to Knowing – 73 Prayers to Transform Your Life”. She is also the founder and head teacher of Akashic Knowing School of Wisdom, an internationally recognized school where students can learn to access their soul wisdom and guidance from their personal Akashic Records along with numerous healing tools, meditation, and prayer systems. Lisa has more than twenty-five years of experience in the spiritual healing forum and is a master of many healing modalities. For 10 of those years, she has also been a Certified Prayer Practitioner, where she offered healing prayer treatment to the congregations and served as vice president on the board of directors at Golden Gate Center for Spiritual Living in California. It is Lisa’s passion to empowering individuals to fi

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Paula and Jenny abouth their new book 'Weaving Healing Wisdom'.  Paula Youmell, RN, Wise Woman Nurse®, teaches body, mind, spirit health from the cellular level up, yup, a natural health-biology nerd to assist your weaving wisdom around your body's amazing inner workings. Her passion for real food and earth based, natural medicine will have you walking your path to health with a skip in your step. Jenny Morrill is a proud public school teacher and Mindfulness Mentor/Trainer specializing in the educational setting.  She loves sharing her expertise to support others as they begin the healing benefits of mindfulness.  She is devoted to helping others settle into their own minds and bodies with steadiness and ease.  It is possible to navigate stress and optimize health using the breath to enhance well-being and presence of mind.  Jenny lives with her daughter and husband in the Foothills of the Adirondacks and is gra

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Susan Shumsky. Dr. Susan Shumsky has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. She is the best-selling author of 13 books, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, New Page, and Skyhorse Publishing. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent nearly 50 years teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. For 22 years, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was guru of the Beatles. Neither starry-eyed nor antagonistic, her memoir _Maharishi & Me_ captures, from a balanced viewpoint, the genuine essence of what it's like to live in an ashram. this episode Q&A includes: • as men and women, we can stop addressing people as "you guys".. • when men stand strong and tell women the truth, we all benefit.. • cold colds and hot colds- elderberry and echinacea are consider neutral.. • hyperic

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Tracy Ash. Tracey Ash believes genius evolutionary clues lie within our ancient origins. She hopes to use them to return us to love, the destiny of humanity. Since 1999 Tracey has aided thousands of individuals to empower, transform and awaken their own sacred destiny.  Tracey Ash has delivered her training in the U.K., USA, Egypt, Japan, and Australia. She is recognized as a leading light by those who deeply care about earth and humanity. Tracey is a Sufi, an expert on Ancient Egypt, and a premier global conference speaker. Her Reality Revolution projects have been activated at the Great Pyramid of Giza, Uluru, Tokyo, Stonehenge, and Mt. Fuji. this episode Q&A includes: • comfrey infusion during pregnancy prevents postpartum issues by making tissues stronger and more elastic.. • long term acid reflux- you are eating yourself alive if you do not cook for yourself- easy go to whole, nourishing foods. • itchy

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Eric Osborne. Eric is the founder of Magnificent Mushrooms gourmet mushroom farm and consulting, Indiana’s first State recognized Wild Mushroom Expert and a conscientious psychonaut, Eric began working in underground Psilocybin therapy for five years before being arrested.  Informed of his activities, police raided his farm and home, charged him with three class B felonies and turned his life upside down. Unwilling to be thwarted, after his release from incarceration Eric founded the 501(c)(3) organization PLEDG INC. (Psychedelic Liberation Education Discipline and Guidance), the for-profit venture MycoMeditations, a legal psilocybin retreat program in rural Jamaica and MycoMeditations Podcast. A husband, father of three and passionate about psychedelic healing, Eric has used hurdles as inspiration to bring forward the medicine of mushrooms. this episode Q&A includes: • painful injury- RICE, skullcap tinctur

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Naomi Love. Naomi Love is a Relationship & Intimacy Coach, Evolutionary Alchemist, Herbalist, Nutritional Therapist, Flower Essence Practitioner and Wisdom keeper of the temple and healing arts. Naomi is also the Creatrix of Wise Womb Medicine Path which is a holistic body of work sharing the Medicine of Mother Earth, Divine Wisdom & Spirit with women around the world - teaching through experiential embodiment and deep personal healing how to be wisdom keepers of the medicine path. this episode Q&A includes: • dog with throat abrasion- no dry kibble, give cream, eggs, bone broth, nourishing herbal infusions- Juliette De Bairacli Levy.. • remedies for canker sores- amla, tulsi, licorice, myrrh, coconut oil, comfrey leaf infusion, clove tea.. • death- non dualism, grieving, remembering/honoring.. • allergies to protein is a allergy to life.. • getting off of ssri- hypericum perforatum tincture and m

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth. She has published extensively on matriarchal society and culture, and through her lifelong research on matriarchal societies has become a founder of Modern Matriarchal Studies. She lectured in Europe and abroad, and her main work “Matriarchal Societies. Studies on Indigenous Culturtes across the Globe”” has been published in German, English and Italian.   this episode Q&A includes: • "No wound requires stiches;" step into your power • People want to avoid Serenity Medicine; it takes time, practice and patience • Hypericum, Oatstraw, mineral rich diet, visualization + affirmations restore nerve functioning • Integrative Care says "I'm in charge of my healing" and I heal myself everyday.  • Prevention for Lyme's disease • Pulsating retina; chamomile + palming • Wise herb choices for toddlers; taste + know the herb + autonomy • Immunization scheduling  • Removing heavy metal

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Rosita Arvigo. Rosita Arvigo was born in Chicago and trained in the United States as a doctor of naprapathy. In addition to her natural healing practice in Belize, Arvigo is the founder of Belize's six-thousand-acre Terra Nova Medicinal Plant Reserve, the founder of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, the cofounder of Rainforest Remedies, and the creator of the Panti Mayan Medicine Trail, a popular and educational tribute to Don Elijio. Rosita's lifework, THE ARVIGO TECHNIQUES OF MAYA ABDOMINAL THERAPY®, help to restore the body to its natural balance by correcting the position of organs that have shifted and restrict the flow of blood, lymph, nerve and chi energy. Today the Arvigo® techniques are employed by Arvigo® Practitioners across the globe bringing the benefits of natural healing to their clients. this episode Q&A includes: • Susun's next book "Abundantly Well" • cancer of the tongue (HPV) huma