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Wild plants by a stream in the Catskills

Wild plants by a stream in the Catskills

Susun shows us plants growing by a stream, including jewelweed, horsetail, and more.

Stinging Nettles & Mustard Greens

Stinging Nettles & Mustard Greens

Susun Weed and granddaughter, Monica Jean go foraging on a wild weed walk. They discover Skunk Cabbage, Stinging Nettles, and Mustard Greens.
Green Blessings Everywhere!

Infusions vs Tinctures

Infusions vs Tinctures

A caller on blogtalkradio, asks if she can use the herbs that make nourishing herbal infusions in tincture form.
Susun explains why we cannot get the nutrients from nettle in a tincture.
This audio is just over 4:00 minutes long.

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Garlic Mustard

Winter edible weed:
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria officinalis) 

Our official major salad plant, for which we give endless thanksgiving. This hardy green will be available until it is buried by snow. For now, it is the main ingredient in all our late fall, early winter salads. Not too bitter, and not too spicy, but just right for colder weather. Let’s pick lots of this one.
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Elder Counters the Flu

Elder Counters the Flu

Elder berries, dried or fresh, have been shown to be more effective at preventing the flu than a flu shot and more effective at shortening the duration of a flu bout than the much-prescribed Tamiflu, which is losing effectiveness through resistance, something that can never happen with elder berry.
Dried Elder Berry Tincture:
Fill any size jar no more than half full of dried elder berries. Fill jar to the top with 100 proof vodka. Cap, label, wait for six weeks, and use.

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Supplements vs infusions

Supplements vs infusions

A caller on blogtalkradio says she was taking supplements, but she feels like infusions and real foods feel better. Susun talks about vitamins and how our body makes and gets vitamins. They discuss the benefits of the nourishing herbal infusions.

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Comfrey Infusion

Comfrey Infusion

Susun Weed and Monica Jean show the difference between commercially available comfrey and home-grown comfrey leaf. Then Susun discusses the benefits of comfrey and makes a nourishing herbal infusion.
Comfrey is a wonderful ally for strong bones and fabulous for healing tendons and ligaments.

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Essential Oils

Essential Oils

Essential oils cannot be made easily at home. They are the pure plant oil, usually extracted by chemicals or hot steam. Hundreds of pounds of fresh plant material may produce only ounces of essential oil.

Essential oils are intended for external use. They can be fatally poisonous if taken internally in quantity. They are also highly irritating to the mucus surfaces of the body (genitals, mouth, eyes, etc.) and may cause allergic skin reactions in some people. Be certain to keep all essential oils well out of the reach of children.

How does the body work? A basic tenet of the Wise Woman Tradition as I have taught it for more than forty years is that our gut determines our health. It is now widely acknowledged that gut flora determines our physical health, our emotional health, and even our spiritual well-being.

Gut flora is the term we use to collectively identify the thousands of different yeasts, bacteria, and micro-organisms that live in our large and small intestines.

All essential oils are antifungal (kill yeasts), antibacterial (kill bacteria), and anti-microbial (kill small things). In short, all essential oils kill gut flora. They kill gut flora when inhaled, put on the body, or used orally. Lack of gut flora interferes with the immune system, makes the cells more resistant to insulin, and raises cholesterol, to name but a few of the problems associated with damage to gut flora.

Aspirin is made by extracting, concentrating, and purifying a plant compound found in willow. Essential oils are made by extracting, concentrating, and purifying the volatile oils found in plants. The processes are the same; the result is the same; there is no way to deny that essential oils are drugs, not herbal medicines. As such, they have detrimental side effects, and – while useful to kill pathogens – are not recommended for everyday use, even as “aromatherapy.”

Instead: Use natural scent therapy. Use scented plants infused in oils ...

Learn more here:
http://www.wisewomanmentor.com/wise-woman-ezine/4178949

And here, Making Infused Oils:
http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/July09/breasthealth.htm

Make A Nourishing Herbal Infusion

Make A Nourishing Herbal Infusion
excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines:
www.wisewomanbookshop.com/product-page/abundantly-well-seven-medicines

I create abundant health by drinking a quart of nourishing herbal infusion every day.
I switch around what I drink, enjoying the benefits of many herbs, one at a time.

Nettle leaf builds energy, mineralizes, restores adrenals.
Oatstraw herb nourishes nerves and hormones.
Comfrey leaf builds strength and flexibility in all tissues.
Linden flowers soothe inflammation, bring cheer.
Redclover blossoms reweave the basis of health.
Mullein rebuilds and strengthens respiratory function.
Hawthorn herb and berries nourish a healthy heart,

Place 1 ounce/30 grams dried herb in a quart/liter jar. Fill jar with boiling water.
Cap tightly. Steep for four hours or overnight.
Strain, squeezing well. Refrigerate liquid; compost herb.
To make linden flower infusion, use ½ ounce of herb.

Calendula oil

Hello,
I have a question that I will only trust Susan to answer. I am making Fresh Calendula infused olive oil. Can I use the petals and pods for the oil?

I did not have my own flowers this year so I ordered them. Unfortunately, the petals are very small (about the same size as the pod)... : ( How will this affect the oil?

Please. There honestly is no one else I trust to ask.

Thank you for shining brightly.

My warmest regards,

Lynn

 

Hello Lynn,

Thank you for writing in ... Susun rarely corresponds via email but you are most welcome to call in during her radio program and speak with her directly -- we can also read your question on air as well... She does the free health hotline each Tuesday evening from 7:30pm - 9pm Eastern:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Being familiar with Susun's teachings, I can tell you that you are at a problem from the get-go in regards to your scenario... when it comes to oil preparations, flower blossoms are delicate creatures and Susun always recommends the use of fresh flowers rather than dried. In her experience, the use of dried flowers is ineffective...
You are certainly welcome to use what you have and see for yourself how you feel about the end result ... perhaps a good experiment ....

blessings,
Kim
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