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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Oat Tart with Date Filling

Oat Tart with Date Filling
by Juliette de Bairacli Levy

Filling: Two pounds stoned dates, one orange, one lemon (small).
Grate the peels off the orange and lemon, then squeeze out all the juice. Pour the juice over the dates in a pan and heat over low heat for about ten minutes until the dates have softened. Now mix the grated peels into this and set aside to cool.

Oat crust: four ounces butter, one tablespoon maple syrup, one cup milk, two cups flaked oats, half cup flour, half cup sugar.
Melt the butter, then add the syrup and the milk. Mix the dry ingredients separately. Finally, add the two mixtures together, mixing very completely to prevent lumpiness.

Grease a round baking tin, spread the oat crust in the bottom and cook for about twenty minutes at 350°F until a light brown color. When semi-cooked take from oven, press up the sides of the crust with a spoon, to make a low wall for the date filling. Now add filling into the tart and bake for a further ten minutes.
When still warm and soft, cut up into triangular portions of the typical tart shape. Allow the tart to set before removing the portions from the baking tin.

Excerpt from Juliette de Bairacli Levys Nature's Children.

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Common Herbs for Natural Health
Nature's Children
Summer in Galilee
A Gypsy in New York
Spanish Mountain Life

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Serenity Medicine to Remove Trauma

Serenity Medicine to Remove Trauma
For relieving both acute and chronic trauma.

excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines

A woman injured in a car accident 25 years previously found it relieved her chronic pain. 
Someone who fell off a cliff remembered to do this and walked away without a bruise.
Repeat as often as desired.

Sit comfortably, with your back supported and upright.
Relax more and more with each breath. Be at ease. Sink.
Let go of your belly, your jaw, your throat. Relax more and more deeply with each breath. Be embraced.
Trust the breath. It is breathing you. Relinquish control.
Do nothing. Be vast. Be spacious.
Allow your mind to be open and soft. Recall the incident that traumatized you.
Focus on the impact. Remember the contact. The hard part.

Then, say: “I am made of atoms. Everything is made of atoms. Atoms are mostly empty space.
Emptiness impacted emptiness. Nothing hit nothing. Spaciousness invaded spaciousness.
I am untouched.
“I am spacious. I am serene. I am empty. I am spaciousness breathing spaciousness.
I am breath arising from nothing, and returning to nothing.
I am the vast open space of Nothing.”

Breath arises and passes away. Thoughts arise and pass away.
Sensations arise and pass away. Emotions arise and pass away.
Life itself arises and passes away.
Breathing in and breathing out. Arising and passing away.
Arising out of emptiness and passing into emptiness. Alive with emptiness.

When you are ready, stretch, yawn, and sigh.
Open your eyes.
Say your name out loud. Reenter the world.

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Mother Earth Ocean Soup

Mother Earth Ocean Soup

3 onions, chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
6 potatoes, cubed
2 carrots, sliced
2 parsnips, sliced
cup dried or fresh wild greens
cup dried seaweed of your choice
12 cups pure water.

~ Sauté onions in oil until brown.
~ Add all the remaining ingredients and cook until vegetables are done.
~ Adjust seasonings adding sea salt as needed and let mellow overnight or serve immediately.

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Elder and Saint Joan's Wort

Elder and Saint Joan's Wort

Susun  talks about Elder Berries and Saint Joans Wort herbs. Two of the best anti-viral herbs.

 

 

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Abundantly Well: The Complementary Integrated Medical Revolution

Abundantly Well: The Complementary Integrated Medical Revolution.

Here is a video peek into Susun's new online course!
Our new video course - a companion to Susun's new book Abundantly Well (available Oct 2019) includes a shamanic journey guided by Susun. She immerses you in the sounds and actions of the Seven Medicines and the Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution. Slide into Serenity Medicine as Susun's voice soothes you in meditation. Connect with your inner wisdom. Let Susun guide you to abundant wellness with affirmation and trance. Follow along with demonstrations of tai chi, yoga, qi gung. Explore alternative medicines. Challenge the need to take drugs. Learn how to dive into Deep Medicine and return renewed. A feast for the eyes and a treat for the ears.



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Three Traditions of Healing

Three Traditions of Healing

There is more than choice between modern Western medicine and alternatives. There are three traditions of healing.

The Wise Woman tradition, focusing on integration and nourishment, and insisting on attention to uniqueness and holographic interconnectedness, is another choice: a new way that is also the most ancient healing way known. A way that follows a spiral path, a give-away dance of nourishment, change and self love. "Trust yourself."

Alternative health care practitioners usually think in the Heroic tradition: the way of the savior, a circular path of rules, punishment, and purification. "Trust me."

AMA-approved, legal, covered-by-insurance health care practitioners are trained to think in the Scientific tradition: walking the knife edge of keen intellect, the straight line of analytical thought, measuring and repeating. Excellent for fixing broken things. "Trust my machine."

The Scientific, Heroic, and Wise Woman traditions are ways of thinking, not ways of acting. Any practice, any technique, any substance can be used by a practitioner/helper in any of the three traditions. There are, for instance, herbalists, and midwives, and MDs in each tradition.

The practitioner and the practice are different. The same techniques, the same herbs are seen and used differently by a person thinking in Scientific, Heroic, or Wise Woman ways.

Thinking these ways does lead to a preference for certain cures. The Wise Woman helper frequently nourishes with herbs and words. The Heroic savior lays down the law to clean up your act fast. The Scientific technician is most at ease with laboratory tests and repeatable, predictable, reliable drugs. But still, the practices do not conclusively identify the practitioner as being in a particular tradition.

The intent, the thought behind the technique points to the tradition: scientific fixing, heroic elimination, or wise womanly digestion and integration.

You contain some aspects of each tradition. And the three traditions are not limited to the realm of healing. The Scientific, Heroic, and Wise Woman ways of thinking are found in politics, legal systems, religions, psychologies, teaching styles, economics. As the Wise Woman way becomes more clearly identified, it opens the way to an integrated, whole, sacred, peaceful global village, interactive with Gaia, mother, earth. As each discipline spins anew its wise woman thread, we reweave the web of interconnectedness with all beings.

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Vaginal issues

Hello,

I saw your fb post on comfrey and am wondering how I would use it for vaginal issues that include itching, burning, lesions at times and fungal and bacterial infections. I look forward to your answer.
Thank you.

Maureen

 

Hi Maureen,

You can use comfrey leaf ointment for rubbing on effected areas - drink the comfrey leaf infusions internally and also use comfrey leaf infusions for a sitz bath. I've also linked to a number of susun's articles on vaginal distress and vaginal health that would be good to read over:

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/March08/grandmother.htm

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/April08/grandmother.htm

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/January08/grandmother.htm

Susun has a lot about vaginal health in her latest book, Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way. You might also want to call in during Susun's free health hotline. She holds it at Blogtalkradio every Tuesday from 7:30pm - 9pm Eastern; call in # 646-929-2463.

If we can be of further assistance, just let us know. Many thanks …

blessings,
Kim
Wise Woman Team

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The Pap Smear

The Pap Smear

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.

The Art of Suzanne GrayA Pap smear is a sample of the tissues of the cervix (and sometimes vagina). In order to collect this sample, women are asked to lay back and put their feet up in stirrups. If this position makes you uncomfortable in any way, tell the examiner you want to put your feet on the examining table. With your knees spread, a speculum is gently fitted into your vagina and opened, making the cervix visible. Breathing deeply and relaxing will make any strange sensations easier to bear.

A small implement and a tiny brush are used to collect cells from the outside of the cervix and from inside the cervical os, like using your fingernail to scrape cells from the inside of your cheek, it is not painful, and there is rarely any bleeding.

The collected cells are either preserved in liquid (best) or smeared directly on a slide. Liquid preservation is required for HPV-DNA testing. Pathologists "read" Pap smears with a microscope, looking for cellular changes, such as cells with large black nuclei (cancer).

The vagina is best kept in its natural state for at least 24 hours prior to the Pap smear: avoid douching, intercourse, spermicides, vaginal hygiene products and sprays, and the insertion of boluses, pessaries, or hormonal creams. For the best results, keep it totally natural for three days before your Pap. Cancel your Pap smear if you are menstruating or have had vigorous sex the night before, as it won’t be accurate.

The original classification of Pap smear results - into four broad categories - created confusion on the part of patients and doctors, and resulted in hundreds of thousands of women being frightened into harsh treatments.

Since 1988, a clearer system, the Bethesda, has been used. It was hoped that expanding the categories and giving more specific information about the cells in the smear would limit the amount of over-treatment. Unfortunately, the new classifications have doubled the number of women with abnormal results, so, instead of fewer needless hysterectomies and drug prescriptions, twice as many women are told they need treatment.

"Unfortunately, informed consent rarely enters the Pap test equation. … The need to be fully informed about the risks as well as benefits is even stronger for anyone undergoing a screening test, which by definition is given to healthy people without symptoms."

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Five easy things you can do now to help Prevent Breast Cancer

Five easy things you can do now to help Prevent Breast Cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But many women are calling it Breast Health Awareness Month! Rather than focusing on breast cancer, we choose to concentrate on keeping our breasts healthy through wise lifestyle and dietary choices.

The following tips may amaze you, since the actions and foods they suggest run counter to many alternative views of cancer prevention. They are supported with strong research, however - from the lab, with animals, and in long-term human studies. Thus, each of these tips has a solid scientific basis, unlike the assertions made by those intent on selling you their opinions and products.

Embarking on even one of these suggestions will definitely lower your risk of breast cancer. Using them all is even better. And as a special treat, I have added three extras. Look for lots more tips for keeping your breasts healthy in my book Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way, recommended by many oncologists and breast health specialists including Dr. Susan Love. And please visit my special breast health website: www.breasthealthbook.com

1. Be more active
Evidence continues to accumulate that a vigorous lifestyle is one of the best ways to cut breast cancer risk. A study of 20,624 Norwegian women found those who exercised or worked out regularly cut their breast cancer risk by 72%. (NEJM, 5/1/1997)

For breast health I walk every day, take a weekly yoga class, and do tai chi twice a week.

2. Eat more unrefined seed foods
All seeds provide phytoestrogens. Women who eat the most phytoestrogenic foods are four times less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those who eat the least. "No study has shown a degree of risk reduction similar to that found for phytoestrogens ..." (Lancet, 10/4/1997)

Whole grains such as wheat, rice, corn, kasha, millet, and quinoa are unrefined seed foods. Beans such as lentils, black beans, pinto beans, lima beans, and chickpeas are unrefined seed foods. Nuts including peanuts, walnuts, almonds, and pecans are unrefined seed foods. And edible seeds such as sesame, sunflower, and pumpkin are unrefined seed foods. Fruits and vegetables that are eaten with their seeds - such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi fruit, summer squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers - count as unrefined seed foods. Even seeds used as seasonings count, such as cumin, coriander, caraway, anise, and dill seeds.

For breast health, I have replaced all refined carbohydrates - including white rice and white/unbleached flour products such as pasta, bread, cookies, crackers, pretzels, bagels, donuts, and cakes - with whole grain products.

Read the rest of this article here: http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Prevent_Breast_Cancer.htm

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Allergies in Children

Dear Susun:

My wife is a regular reader of Sage Woman and we are writing to you asking for help with a situation with our granddaughter.

She is 2 1/2 years old and lives in Los Angeles.  Her nose runs a lot and the pediatrician said it is due to allergies, but he does not know what she might be allergic to.

Is there anything that could help her with this?

Also, she was being given sweet echinacea to help boost her immune system.  While it seems to have helped, the product makes her hyperactive and she doesn't sleep well when she is taking it.

Whatever suggestions you can offer will be very appreciated.

Thanks so much.

 

 

Hello,

Some things to try for your granddaugher's allergies would be nettles both as a cooked green and as infusions, also oatstraw infusions.

 

http://www.susunweed.com/How_to_make_Infusions.htm

Elder flower tea can help with a runny nose due to allergies. Chickweed tincture and infusions as well can be helpful.

Nettles are also a wonderful way to build up ones immune system. Dandelion (eat the fresh leaves and flowers and cooked greens) and honeysuckle (Harvest flower buds and dry quickly in the sun without turning or handling, infuse in water overnight (one ounce dried blossoms to one quart boiling water in a tightly sealed jar steeped for 4-10 hours), and drunk freely. These are both are good at building immune system.

 

Here are links to more articles that you may find useful:

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Strengthen_Your_Immune_System.htm

 

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/June04/wisewoman.htm

 

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/November04/healingwise.htm

 

Currently Susun is devoting her time to her forthcoming book, “Down There, reproductive health for women and men” due out soon. You can speak with Susun during her Free hotlineon blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call in with your questions 1-646-929-2463. Visit the link for more info: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

You might also go to the Wise Woman Forum to ask your question in case a member can offer you further help: www.susunweed.com/wisewomanforum.htm. 

Blessings,

Wise Woman Team

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You can get your health questions answered by Susun on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call in with your questions 1-646-929-2463. Visit the link for more info: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed. You can also join the free women's health forum where hundreds of wise woman can help you. Sign up for the free herbal healing ezine, filled with wise woman wit and wisdom. Visit the Wise Woman Bookshop for online university, gift shop, bookshop, digital downloads, and more. Go to www.susunweed.com for a complete list of offerings including radio show and free videos.

 

Questions on Infusions and ABC's of Herbalism

Q: You say drink the infusions one at a time but is it ok to make 2 or 3 and drink them in the same day example oatstraw, nettle and red clover.

Also I am very interested in taking you abc of herbal's course when does it start and do I pay 50.00 per month?

The reason I want to take it is that I am very interested in herbs and healing. It all started with your breast cancer book I had calcifications in my mammo and the dr. immediatly wanted to do a biopsy and I said no so now I am supposed to go back for a repeat mammo in Jan but I just felt that it was not the right thing to do. When I said no to the biopsy he said oK then why did you want me to have it I said, he said so  you know for sure!!!! I said know what for sure, he said nothing anyways hence my interest in your work, I also was very tired of taking vitamins and supplements I want my life simpler than it is, I want to go back to the old ways.

Anyways I love your books

A: Hello,  thank you for writing.  We are so glad you enjoy Susun's work and want to study further with her.  We enjoyed your story; always nice to hear people question and choose for themselves!

Susun's newest correspondence course, the ABC of Herbalism, can be taken any time that best suits you.  As a correspondence student, your course is between you and Susun, so when you start is your choosing. 

If you choose to pay in the ten $50 installments, it would be monthly.  If you pay online through www.ash-tree-publishing.com, the payments will automatically be deducted each month.  You also have the option to pay by mail to Susun Weed at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498.

You can drink the infusions however you feel compelled.  It is recommended you make one at a time both so that none will go bad, and so that you can get a body feel for each, rather than having them all mixed together.  I used to do it one at a time, then even chose to drink only one for a whole month before doing another for a whole month, etc. helping me to know each more intimately.  After years now of drinking them, and now that I am not the only one in the household who drinks them, I often have two or three going at a time.  This way we can choose what best fits us in the moment.

If I can help you further as you register for your course, with any more infusion questions, or in any other way, please do let me know!  Susun looks forward to hearing from you and beginning your course :)

Blessings,
Karen Joy
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More books by Juliette de Bairacli Levy

Q: Dear WiseWoman,

I'm hoping to obtain copies of several of Juliette de Bairacli Levy's books...particularly "As Gypsies Wander", "The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat", "Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable" and "Common Herbs for Natural Health". (I've managed to get a copy of "A Herbal Handbook for Everyone" which seems to be one of the few of her works still in print). Do you know of any available, reasonably priced copies?

 

 

A: Hello, I understand this quest to find Juliette's books! Most are out of print and treasured by their owners, so hard to find used.  Susun Weed, of Ash Tree publishing, has brought some back to print and has 3 more of Juliette's coming available soon. 

 

Currently we print and carry, of those you ask of, Common Herbs for Natural Health. You can see this, her others available, and those soon to come.  The handbooks for Farm and Stable and for the Dog and Cat are available by another publisher.  I have found them at Amazon.com and half.com. 

 

I don't know where you can find As Gypsies Wander, however I would wonder if it later carried a different name, as did many of her books as they were reprinted by different publishers. (for example: her herbal handbooks for animals with varied names like Cats Naturally: and the Herbal Handbook for Everyone may be similar to Common Herbs for Natural Health).  As Gypsies Wander sounds much like the content of Traveler's Joy, which we carry, and our soon to come Gypsy in New York, Spanish Mountain Life, and Summer in Galilee, which we anticipate having available soon.

 

Do let me know if I can help further.

Karen Joy
[email protected]
http://www.wisewomanweb.com