Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed interviews Joanna Harcourt Smith in 2014 discussing her life and her recent memoir. Joann was born in 1946 high up in a the Mountains of Switzerland. She grew up in Paris and went to school in France. She described her book "Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary" as the love of her life. It took her 30 years to digest and compost the experiences she wrote about. She lived for 40 years in the US where she has learned to love herself and others. Joanna Harcourt Smith passed away on October 11, 2020 at her home in Sante Fe, New Mexico from breast cancer. She was 74 years old.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Charlotte Markey. Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and founding director of the Health Sciences Center at Rutgers University (Camden).   She is the author of  three books: Smart People Don’t Diet:  How the Latest Science Can Help You Lose Weight Permanently; Body Positive:  Understanding and Improving Body Image in Science and Practice; and most recently, The Body Image Book for Girls - Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless. Dr. Markey writes monthly for U.S. News and World Report (Eat + Run blog), Psychology Today (Smart People Don’t Diet blog), as well as other publications, focusing on individuals’ eating behaviors, body image, and health. www.TheBodyImageBookforGirls.com www.CharlotteMarkey.com Q & A topics in this episode include: cavities & root canalsskin sensitivityherbal infusion rotationtinea versicolorautistic & hyperactive childnitric acidfermented honeyyellow

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 her guest, Vanessa Pack Vanessa Peck, the Medical Cannabis Nurse for Kids, is a Certified Cannabis Nurse with 12 years of professional nursing practice.  With an extensive background in emergency care, trauma, and pediatrics, Vanessa was compelled to advance her career to help educate and guide families through the world of cannabis.  Vanessa understands and empathizes with parents who feel at their wits end because of failed therapies, enduring the most difficult experience; watching their child suffer.  Together, Vanessa and families walk hand-in-hand down the alternative road of medical cannabis, transforming and restoring their child’s life. www.elevated-healing.com Q & A topics in this episode include: embedded tick / tick bitemotherwort during pregnancymedicinal qualities of hempelecampane vs coltsfootwhat to do when someone is giving you a hard timesetting boundariesvulvar itching & burning

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Kathleen Gubitosi. For over two decades, Kathleen Gubitosi, M. A. has supported women who desire to align with their inner truth, step into their intuitive feminine power and live the life of their dreams by connecting to the most potent gift on earth, their voices. An award winning business woman, performance coach, Reiki Master, professional tarot consultant, contributing author to two bestselling books, expert instructor for Inspired Living University and Creatrix of The Magic of Voice Alchemy™, Kathleen is a sought after speaker on both live and virtual stages sharing her message of feminine empowerment through voice and the metaphysical arts. ​Q & A subjects in this episode include: trembing handsdealing with fearmeeting nutritional needsrelief from oral irritation and facial painarchetypespanic attacks with seizure-like symptomsalternatives to commercial infant formula  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute inter view with her guest, Kerrie Wearing. Kerrie Wearing is a modern medium, passionate about supporting women to connect to their soul and it's essence of the Divine Feminine. Where you find that you embody your purpose by showing up as a being that is sensual, confident, creative, intuitive and being energetically aligned, enabling us to expand our Mediumship. With her work spanning more than 20 years, Kerrie is the author of A New Kind of Normal:Unlock the Medium within and Wisdom of the Soul: How to live life created with love & inspiration made simple and right now loves supporting women online with her Creative Heart Feminine Spirit Academy.   Kerrie lives in Sydney Australia with her partner, our furbabies, loves being mum to her two adult children and is a not so secret country music fan. Q & A topics in this episode include: chemical sensitivityconstipationshooting pains in hands & feetcorneal abrasionli

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

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 tincturehyperthyroidismcervic

  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

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

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,

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

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 p

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.

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 palave

    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:  

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 incl