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VAGINAL DISTRESS part 2 by Susun Weed ©2007 part 1 "Don’t try to sit on your distress, dearest daughter," cautions Grandmother Growth. "It will prove to be a hot, itchy, prickly, miserable seat, I can promise you.
Herbal Adventures with Susun S Weed The Liliacea family - lily family as seen printed in www.sagewoman.com
Worried About Breast Cancer? Things strongly implicated in the initiation, promotion, or growth of breast cancer Hormones, especially estradiol and progesterone o Sources: Your ovaries, commercial meat and milk, hormone pills, progesterone creams, steroids, cortisone. o Reduced by: Strenuous physical activity, pregnancy and lactation, menopause, wise lifestyle and food choices, high levels of phytoestrogens in the diet..
How Safe Is Soy? by Susun S Weed Condensation of an article in NewLife Mag, May '96, by Sally Fallon, M.A. and Mary Enig, Ph.D.
The Vagina (part 2) by Susun Weed I am the sheath of the sword. I am toothed, armed, and ready to bite. I have the power to defend, to keep women safe. I am not passive, accepting, ready to be filled. I am aware, watchful, ready to reject what I don’t want and to seize what I will.
Herbal Adventures with Susun S Weed The Polygonaceae family - knotweed, buckwheat, or smartweed family
Herbal Pharmacy Making Herbal Infusions In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
Herbal Smoking Mixtures by Susun S Weed
Natural Health and Healing in the Wise Woman Tradition c. 2002 Susun S Weed
INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS by Susun Weed ©2007 Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic inflammation of the space between lining of the urinary bladder and its muscle.
Healthy Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way c. 2002 Susun S. Weed Menopause is a time of enormous change. Wise women of all times have found simple life-style changes can make their Change much easier. For optimum health during and after menopause, do these two things: exercise a different way every day and drink nourishing herbal infusions. Exercise a different way every day Take walks, lift weights, dance, garden, do yoga, try tai chi.
Is There an 'All Natural' Alte ative to Antibiotics? by Susun S Weed
Herbal Pharmacy Making Decoctions and Syrups by Susun Weed In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
HERBAL PHARMACY - Making Herbal Medicines In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
PAP SMEAR © Susun S. Weed George Papanicolaou, a pathologist, pioneered this non-invasive screening test in the 1920s. It is not diagnostic. False negative results will occur 10-20 percent of the time.
VAGINAL DISTRESS by Susun Weed ©2007 "Don’t try to sit on your distress, dearest daughter," cautions Grandmother Growth. "It will prove to be a hot, itchy, prickly, miserable seat, I can promise you.
Wild Salad with Wild Flowers c. 2012, Susun Weed You will need a sharp pair of plant scissors and a few baskets. For safety sake, I harvest each plant into a different container. Keep the chickweed stalks parallel as you cut them and place them in your basket that way, making them much easier to cut into uniform pieces.
HERBAL PHARMACY – Meeting the Plants by Susun Weed In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
Herbal Adventures with Susun S Weed Brassicaceae family 'aka' Cruciferae (crucifix) family as seen printed in www.sagewoman.com
NOURISHING THE LIVER THE WISE WOMAN WAY c. 2006 Susun S Weed The liver is one of the most important organs in the body. Commonly referred to as a "filter," the liver is actually more subtle and sophisticated than a passive filter. Every drop of blood in your body moves through your liver every hour of every day you are alive - not to be filtered, but to be restored.
HERBAL PHARMACY Picking and Drying Herbs by Susun Weed In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the commonplants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe.Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
EYE-OPENING INFORMATION FOR MENOPAUSAL WOMEN from NEW Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way, Alte ative Approaches for Women 30-90 Susun S. Weed
To read the entire Wise Woman Herbal Ezine, including full color photos and recipes, visit: http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/june26-2012/index.html Weed Walk June 26, 2012 “Can we go for another walk in the woods?” you ask. Good question. Let’s see . . . Have we harvested and dried enough comfrey, nettle, and red clover to last until this time next year? Have we tinctured motherwort, yarrow, and St. Joan’s wort? Have we put up infused oils of mullein, plantain, and Hypericum?
To read the entire Wise Woman Herbal Ezine, including full color photos and recipes, visit: http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/july3-2012/index.html Weed Walk July 3, 2012 A Walk in The Woods Green greetings! I promised you a walk in the forest this week, so, if you’re ready, let’s go. Remember to spray some yarrow tincture on your ankles to foil the deer ticks. In fact, let’s take the yarrow sprayer with us. We’re going to the swamp, and we’ll need to ward off mosquitoes as well as ticks and biting flies.
Hawtho is the tree of May. Its many common names include whitethorn, hagthorn, ladies' meat, quickthorn, maytree, and mayblossom. Its magic and medicine are ancient and memorable. From the earliest records, hawtho is one of the sacred trees. Hawtho is the sixth tree of the Ogam cycle, Hath. Hath precedes Quer, the oak, center tree of the cycle of thirteen. Hawtho is said to guard the hinges and to oversee crafts. A branch of flowering hawtho placed in studio or workshop is believed to make the craftsperson skilled and successful. Hath shuts what is open and opens what is shut.
Perhaps no aspect of breast cancer is more widely publicized than screening mammography. Ads on television, in magazines, and in the daily paper urge women to deal with fear about breast cancer by having a yearly mammogram. We’re even told that doing this is a way to “really care for yourself.”
Your garden. What fun - and frustration - await you there! The best mentor you can choose, as far as I'm conce ed, is Nature herself. Nature likes life everywhere. Have an open field and plants magically appear! This is the way plants grow when left to themselves. We don't have to struggle so much.
Plants feed us, clothe us, house us, heal us, and kill us. There’s no way around it, when you use herbs, you need to be alert and aware. Here are some ways to be sure you’re using herbs safely. - Identify all plants you intend to use by botanical name (e.g., Leonurus cardiaca). Only buy herbs that are labeled with the botanical name. The botanical name is specific to only one plant, while common names overlap and vary. “Sage” refers to at least five plants in at least two different families, but Salvia officinalis only means garden sage.
Sit or lie down in a private, safe space (bathtub is fine). Bring all your attention to your breath. As you breathe out, imagine waves flowing out of you with your breath. Breathe out waves of water, of energy, of color, of sound. Allow these waves to flow out of you. Notice where you are tensing, pushing, trying to make the waves happen. And let go, let the waves flow out easily with your breath. Feel the gentle pulsations of the waves deep inside yourself. Feel every cell of your being pulsing peacefully and joyfully with these waves.
Youthful long life, promises the heroic tradition, is given to those who follow the rules, atone for their wrongs, and get clean. It is especially important in the Heroic tradition to cleanse the body inside and out: to purify the body with austerities and sweats, to clean out toxins with fasts and purges, to clean the blood, clean the liver, and above all, clean the colon.
As summer nights lengthen into autumn, the forests of the Catskill mountains in upstate New York fill with magical, mystical, medicinal mushrooms. "Toadstool" is a quaint name for the many mushrooms that spring forth between rains, while "fungi" is the more technical term. Fungi are plants, but plants without flowers or roots or chlorophyll (which makes plants green). Strange shapes (some quite sexually suggestive), the ability to grow (and glow) in the dark, and psychedelic colors make mushrooms an obvious addition to any witch’s stew.
Using infused herbal oils is an easy and pleasurable way to keep your breasts healthy, prevent and reverse cysts, dissolve troublesome lumps, and repair abnormal cells. Breast skin is thin and absorbent, and breast tissue contains a great deal of fat, which readily absorbs infused herbal oils. The healing and cancer-preventing actions of herbs easily migrate into olive oil creating a simple, effective product for maintaining breast health.
Herbalism, the use of plants for health and healing, is as old as humanity, if not older. In hunting/gathering societies, women are naturally the herbalists. This connection between women and herbs continues today. At the turn of the Century, herbalism in America is undergoing a renaissance. Throughout most of the rest of the world, especially in countries where women's wisdom has traditionally been honored, herbalism remains, as ever, the treatment of choice for many acute and most chronic health problems.
The dark months are a time of rest and renewal, not a time of high energy. The fairies return to their underground homes at Halloween and return aboveground on May Day. Give in to the slower pace of the winter. Expect less of yourself; enjoy more time in bed. Stop fighting the dark. Let it be deep and nourishing. Before electric lights, humans slept twelve hours a day during the winter. Recognize the softer energy of contemplation and enjoy it, just as you do the active energy of summer.
If you live in any of the temperate regions of the world, whether at sea level or high in the mountains, some pine tree is likely to be growing very near you. If you live in the desert, you may have to get to the mountains before you find a pine. But wherever you live, north or south, east or west, so long as it isn't the tropics, you will find pine trees. And since they are evergreen, you can find them easily right now, in the deep of winter, when deciduous trees are bare of leaves. So the next time you take a walk or go for a drive, be on the look out for pines.
HERBAL PHARMACY – Buying Herbs by Susun Weed In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman tradition of using local herbs, free for the taking.
Herbal Medicine Chest... IN YOUR BACK YARD by Susun Weed
Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use - plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It's easy. You can do it too. In your first lessons, you learned how to "listen" to the messages of plant's tastes, how to make effective water-based herbal remedies, and how to distinguish safe nourishing and tonifying herbs from the more dangerous stimulating and sedating herbs.
Winter time is depression time for many women. Perhaps it is harder to look at the bright side when days are short, perhaps the holidays and family demands take their toll on us. Of course, depression can also be triggered by lack of thyroid hormone and by use of steroids, high blood pressure drugs, and ERT/HRT.
Message from Susun: http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/wordpress/2012/01/17/january-17-2012/ Dear Friends of the Green, “Grebble” is the word I was taught to use to refer to the process of removing leaves from the stalks of herbs. Most culinary herbs are grebbled, since the stalks are unpalatable. Infusion herbs are not grebbled, as the stalk contains important nutrients. (Red clover stalk can be ten times richer in phytoestrogens than the flower.)
The Spirit of Simples by Susun S Weed What is a Simple? A "simple" is one herb used at a time. A "simpler" is an herbalist who generally uses herbs one at a time, rather than in combinations. Why Use Simples?
Here Comes the Flu Season Protect Yourself the Wise Woman Way © 2004 Susun S Weed Time to get out my long underwear and my warm wooly socks. Time to nourish my immune systems so cold days won't be days of colds -- and flu.
To read the entire Wise Woman Herbal Ezine, including recipes and full color photos, visit: http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/september4-2012/index.html Weed Walk September 6, 2012 Green greetings to you all. There are still lots of new plants coming into bloom. Get your walking shoes on. Or take them off. Barefoot might be the better choice, as we are going to go to some wet places this week and next week too. Swamps and seeps, wet fields and drainage ditches are the best places to meet the high-stepping, fun-loving, many-knees sisters, the Polygonaceae.
Greetings from Susun Weed~ http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/wordpress/2012/01/10/january-10-2012/ Dear friends of the green, Mint honeys are a delicious way to prevent and treat winter miseries: the flu, colds, and coughs especially. I usually make mine just before the frost takes down the tender mints, but January is not too late to get some started if you have access to hardy mints. (See last week’s green reports for some choices.) Overwintering rosemary, sage, thyme, and lavender appreciate a haircut about now, for lush spring growth.
To read the entire Wise Woman Herbal Ezine, including color photos and a recipe for you, visit: http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/august3-2012/index.html Weed Walk August 3, 2012 Umbels and Asters Green blessings to you all. Ah, the first days of autumn. Yes, really. The beginning of August is the beginning of fall. Now the days grow noticeably shorter as we move toward equinox. Leaves are already turning: carmine red ones on the woodbine, yellow ones on the birches. It is time for the joyous Feast of the First Harvest. John Barleyco must die!
Herbal Adventures with Susun S Weed The Malvaceae -- or mallow -- family as seen printed in www.sagewoman.com