Healing Wise

Partner Earth by Pam Montgomery

Partner Earth by Pam Montgomery

Excerpt:
I began to know myself as a multidimensional being with more than one reality to explore. This shift in consciousness awakened my desire to know on an intimate level the very fabric of life, spirit, and all its manifestations. Again, the universe heard my desire and gave me the gift of an amazing light being, who has become one of my greatest teachers.

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Post Viral Syndrome - Help Yourself the Wise Woman Way

Post Viral Syndrome - Help Yourself the Wise Woman Way!
Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue, Autoimmune Diseases ..

Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to address the long COVID crisis that is affecting more than 22 million adults and 1 million children across the United States. 

Susus created this course, designed to assist individuals worldwide who are grappling with long Covid.

In this course, you will meet simple, safe, accessible green allies (herbs) that nourish, strengthen, and re-energize you from the inside out.

* Green allies for a healthy cardio-vascular system.
* Green allies for a healthy nervous system.
* Green allies for powerful immunity.
* Green allies for respiratory health.
* Green allies that counter inflammation.

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Yarrow

Yarrow

(Achellia millefolium)

This lovely perennial weed is grown in many herb gardens for it has a multitude of uses. Cut the flowering tops (use only white-flowering yarrow) and use your alcohol to make a strongly-scented tincture that you can take internally to prevent colds and the flu. (A dose is 10-20 drops, or up to 1 ml).
I carry a little spray bottle of yarrow tincture with me when I'm outside and wet my skin every hour or so. A study showed Yarrow tincture to be more effective than DEET at repelling ticks, mosquitoes, and sand flies.
You can also make a healing ointment with yarrow flower tops and your oil or fat. Yarrow oil is antibacterial, pain-relieving, and incredibly helpful in healing all types of wounds.

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Make A Tincture/Fresh Herb

Make A Tincture/Fresh Herb
excerpt from: Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines

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I use tinctures in varied doses, from several dropperfuls at a time, to only a few drops at a time. I take tonic tinctures daily. Others as needed.
Alcohol pulls out more poisonous constituents than water.
Tinctures are superior when made from fresh plants.

These tinctures require fresh plants, no exceptions.
* St. Joan’s wort flower means trouble for viruses and frowns.
* Poke root stirs up the lymphatic and immune systems.
* Bloodroot in tiny amounts counter periodontal disease.
* Motherwort calms anxiety, eases the heart.
* Skullcap eases pain and brings deep sleep.
Fill any size jar to the top with cut-up pieces of fresh, just harvested herb, then add 100-proof vodka, right to the top of the jar.
Lid well, label. Ready to use in six weeks.
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Susun talks about Red Clover

Susun talks about Red Clover.
A clip from:
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Join fifteen deeply green herbalists as we share our decades of personal and clinical experiences, thoughts, visions, and uses of red clover — and her sisters, white clover, crimson clover, and sweet clover (Melilotus).
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Red clover Infusion

Red clover Infusion

Susun makes red clover nourishing herbal infusion. Red clover blossom infusion is one of the world's best remedies for infertility. It is highly regarded as an anti-cancer remedy. It is considered safe for consumption by pregnant and lactating women. The high vitamin content of red clover blossoms, combined with the folic acid in the leaves is especially helpful to sperm and egg production and helps prevent birth defects. Red clover's high mineral and trace mineral content helps restore and maintain good production of hormones. Its profuse and exceedingly absorbable calcium and magnesium help rejuvenate and repair the delicate tissues of reproduction.

 

 

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Wise Woman Center

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It's almost spring! That means classes, workshops, work exchanges and more!

Here's the upcoming schedule:
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April 13-14: Work-exchange Weekend
April 19: Moonlodge
April 20: Woodland Wonders Hands-on: Meet ramps, coptis, dwarf ginseng, bloodroot, hepatica, and more
April 21: Spring Tonics Hands-on: Make nettle soup and a wild salad; find brassicas, alliums, sweet birch

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May 7: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Late Spring Group begins
May 11-12: Work-exchange Weekend
May 17: Moonlodge
May 18: Herbal Pain Relief: Ally with cannabis, skullcap, poppies, St. Joan’s wort, arnica, sweet clover
May 19: Your Herbal Garden Hands-on: Best herbs to grow, best weeds to “cultivate,” free herbs for you to plant
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Winter Allies part 2

When we use herbs to maintain and regain health, we not only take a big step toward health independence but a small step toward peace on our planet. Instead of making war on weeds, I use them. Instead of making war on nature, I let Her guide me. Instead of making war on myself when I'm sick, I nourish myself toward greater health, greater peace.

​Anti-infective Herbs
Anti-infective herbs can help us prevent the flu - and assist us if we do get sick. Colds and the flu are caused by viruses, making them more difficult to treat than bacterial infections. Viruses are more vital than bacteria and harder to kill. There are many anti-bacterial herbs -- including yarrow, echinacea, elecampane, and poke -- but few that are anti-viral. Of these, my favorite is St. Joan's/John's wort. If any herb can prevent the flu, St.J's can.
It's a good idea to have both anti-viral and anti-bacterial herbs on hand. The distinction between them is not so important once you are sick. Both types of herbs will alert the immune system to the infection and help it gather the resources needed to counter it.

Did you know that the achy muscles and headachy feeling we get with the flu is not caused by the flu itself but results from the immune system gobbling up all available resources so it can clobber the flu virus?!

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Winter Edible Weed

Winter Edible Weed.

Wild Madder (Gallium mollugo):
Pinch the tender tops of this little plant all winter for salad greens. You only get a half a bite per plant, but thankfully there is lots and lots of it, so it adds up as a nice addition to the tougher greens. Also known as bedstraw.

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Sweet Earth Soup

Sweet Earth Soup

8-10 servings
A rich hearty soup for a main course.
3 TB olive oil
1 lg onion, chopped, 3 c
3 cloves garlic, chopped, 2 TB
1 lg. burdock root, but into thin rounds, 2 c chopped
1 large handful dried sea palm fronds or kelp, 1 1/2 c soaked
1 lg. potato, chopped, 2 c
1 lg. yam, chopped, 4 c
1 tsp sea salt
2 TB tamari or to taste
5 c water
3 tbp ground fenugreek
1 1/2 tsp ground coriander3 c raw cashews
3 c water
chopped scallions for garnish

Break the sea palm fronds into pieces no longer than 1" Soak in water to cover for 20 minutes, then drain and compost the liquid. Set aside soaked sea palm fronds.
Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a heavy skillet. Saute garlic and onions 5 minutes or until translucent. Add burdock root,and saute until onions are translucent. Add fenugreek and coriander and saute one minute to mix the spices in with the oil. Add sea palm fronds, yams, potatoes, salt and 5 c water. Bring to the boil, and simmer, covered, 30 minutes until the vegetables are cooked.
Blend the 3 c water and 3 c cashews until creamy. No mash will remain. Remove cooked vegetables from heat, add 1 c of the boiling liquid slowly to the cashew cream, stirring constantly. Now add this back to the soup slowly. Taste for salt and/or tamari.
If necessary, return to a very low flame and heat to serving temperature. Take care not to boil. Garnish and serve immediately.

How to make a nourishing herbal infusion

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How to make a nourishing herbal infusion.
One ounce (30 grams) dried herb
* Always use dried herb
* Always weigh the herb
In a quart (liter) of boiling water.
* Always use boiling water
Tightly covered and steeped (off the heat) for 4-10 hours.
Refrigerate.
Drink a quart a day.

* Never use fresh herb, the cell walls are intact
* Never use a handful or a cup of herb, only a weighed ounce
* Never use aromatic herbs for infusion; a pinch may be added for flavoring

* Make in a jar or a pot.
For serious situations make in a jar.
* Consume hot, cold, or inbetween.
* Add anything to your infusion: honey, milk, lemon, whiskey, fruit juice, coffee. . .

* Treat infusions like blood
Infusions spoil rapidly due to high protein content.
Infusions need to be kept cold after brewing.
Making large amounts requires a way to cool the pot rapidly.

* Put spent herb in your compost pile.
Or broadcast it across your lawn.
Or mulch your house plants with it.
Or give it to a favorite tree.
Spoiled infusion is fertilizer for plants.

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Are You Ready for Winter?

Are You Ready for Winter?
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Here come the colder, darker, often sicker, days of the year. Are you ready?
Colds, coughs, flu, stuffy and runny noses, and fevers are the most common winter miseries. To counter and deal with them, I need anti-infective, anti-viral, soothing, and immune enhancing herbs.

A mainstay of preparedness is having plenty of anti-infective herbal remedies on hand to prevent and treat colds, flu, and fevers. Two of my favorites are echinacea and yarrow. I also use Phytolacca (poke).

Yarrow is best tinctured in the summers, while in full flower. I never make this remedy with dried herb; it is too bitter and too harsh for me. But yarrow doesn't mind frost, and an excellent anti-infective tincture can be made with the large leaves available now. Herbalist Gretchen Gould prefers the autumn leaves when making yarrow oil. Fill a jar with well-chopped leaves. Add 100 proof vodka right to the top. Lid and label.

Echinacea roots can be dug after the first frosts and promptly tinctured. And dried Echinacea augustifolia roots can be tinctured anytime. I buy a pound of dried root and make four quarts of tincture, spaced about three months apart. I find tinctures from dried roots are best after sitting for at least twelve months.

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https://www.wisewomanmentor.com/healing-archive/are-you-ready-for-winter%3F-part-1
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Herbal Infusions

Herbal Infusions

Herbal infusions differ from herbal teas: They are darker in color and richer tasting because their long brewing extracts many more nutrients -- especially minerals. My favorite nourishing herbal infusions for are oatstraw, red clover blossoms, stinging nettle leaves, and comfrey leaves.

To prepare your infusion: Put a quart of cold water up to boil. Weigh one ounce of dried (not fresh!) herb into a quart canning jar. Go brush your teeth and count your grey hairs until the teapot whistles. Pour the boiling water into the jar with your herb (only one herb at a time, please!), screw on a tight lid, turn off the light, and go to bed. Next morning strain out the herb and drink the liquid: cold, hot, or at room temperature. Add honey, tamari, or milk if desired.

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Instead of Antibiotics

Instead of Antibiotics

There are good reasons to use antibiotic drugs. That said, itis agreed that they are often overused. If the infection is not life threatening, you may wish to try herbs instead of, or in addition to, regular antibiotics.
Of the most-often used herbal anti-infectives - calendula, chaparral, echinacea, goldenseal, myrrh, poke, usnea, and yarrow - it is the lovely purple coneflower that I most often turn to.

I find echinacea as effective as antibiotics (dare I say sometimes better than!) if E. angustifolia/augustifolia), not E. purperea, is used; tincture, not capsules or teas is used; the root, and only the root, is used; and very large doses are taken very frequently.

To figure your dose of echinacea, divide your body weight (in pounds) by 2; take that many drops per dose. There are about 25 drops in a dropperful; round up to full droppers. If you weigh 180 pounds, take 90 drops/4 dropperfuls. There is no known overdose of echinacea tincture.
With acute infection I take a full dose every 2-3 hours. When chronic, a full dose every 4-6 hours.

excerpt from 'Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way'
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