Healing Wise

Immune A-Go-Go Soup

Immune A-Go-Go Soup
Serves 6-8

Good enough for dinner any night, this soup is of special benefit for those in the midst of chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Variations on this soup are a regular part of my anti-cancer lifestyle.

2 cups beet roots or tops, sliced (parsnips are great too)
2 cups water (spring water or filtered water)
1 cup dried seaweed (2 cups/500 ml after soaking)
6 cups cabbage, thinly sliced
3 onions, sliced from top to bottom (like crescent moons)
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
10–20 cloves garlic, sliced
1 thumb’s worth of ginger, sliced
4 ounces fresh shiitake, reishii, or wild mushrooms
~ or 1 ounce dried mushrooms
2 cups carrots, sliced
8–12 cups spring water or filtered water
1 ounce dried Siberian ginseng root, whole or cut
optional: organic chicken, any amount
optional: 1 cup cooked brown rice

Cover beets with water; cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, soak seaweed in hot water. On a low fire, saute the cabbage and onion in olive oil until limp, 5–10 minutes. Add salt, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, carrots, cooked beets and their cooking water, seaweed and its soaking water (watch out for grit at the bottom), and Siberian ginseng. Stir well. Add chicken and/or rice. Add water. Cover the pot tightly and raise the heat to high. As soon as the soup boils, reduce the heat. Simmer for 1 hour. Let it rest for several hours or overnight. Reheat before serving. Don’t worry about leftovers. The taste of this soup improves as it ages.

 

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Strengthen your immune system!

Strengthen your immune system

Strengthen your immune system with a good diet, adequate sleep, regular physical activity, emotional well-being, and a few of the recommended herbal allies of your choice. Always remember to use herbs and herbal preparations simply and safely. Avoid immune compromising substances such as coffee, tobacco and medications.

With a strengthened immune system you will not only enjoy better health, but you will be less likely to be susceptible to infection and possible death from bacterial and/or viral invasions.

Faith in your body's ability to protect itself will continue to bolster and reinforce the immune system as your mental well-being improves. Enjoy the upward spiral of health as you follow the path of the Wise Woman Way.

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Sage Honey

Sage Honey

Sage Honey helps you through the winter. Great for coughs, colds, sore throats and more.

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Cough relief

Cough relief

A caller on blogtalkradio talks about taking a few tinctures. One of which is for a cough. Susun tells her what to take for the cough.
This audio is just under 3:00 minutes long.

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Echinacea

Echinacea

In my experience, since both colds and the flu are often accompanied—or immediately followed by—bacterial infections in the sinuses, throat, and lungs, echinacea can be a helpful ally to counter them. I do use it at the very first sign of a cold or the flu, along with immune-boosting herbs such as Astragalus cooked up in a soup.

When I use echinacea tincture, I use a lavish dose: 1 drop for every 2 pounds of body weight. A dropperful (which looks like half a dropperful) is about 25 drops of tincture. So I use a dropperful for children 25-50 pounds. Two dropperfuls for those weighing 50-100 pounds. Three dropperfuls for up to 150 pounds. Four for up to 200, and so on.

I take the full dose as often as every 1-2 hours in a crisis, or every 3-4 hours if I catch the infection at an early stage. And I expect to see relief within the first 24 hours. As I do, I space the doses further and further apart until all symptoms are gone. I don't count the days or the weeks that I use echinacea. If the infection warrants it—as when my goose "Sweetheart" was attacked by a toothed being (dog? coyote? fox?) and had his armpit ripped out—I will use large doses for months on end until all signs of infection (redness, pain and tenderness, heat or fever) are gone.

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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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Slippery Elm balls

Slippery Elm balls for digestion.

I make lozenges by mixing slippery elm bark powder with a little honey.

I stir until it clumps up, adding more honey if needed. It's just right when it's like pie dough.
Using my hands, I make balls the size of hazelnut or bigger, and roll them in more powdered slippery elm so they don’t stick to each other.

I store them in a small metal tin; and don't leave home without it.
Slippery elm is so safe that you can dissolve a ball in your mouth as often as you want, any time you feel any distress.
If you’re working with an ongoing condition, at least two a day is good.

Slippery elm restores the lining of the intestines, prevents any agents within the body from disturbing the intestines, and neutralizes any poisons that are present in or around the intestines.

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Herbs for Anxiety

Herbs for Anxiety

Susun answers a question about anxiety, she tells the caller not to take kava kava. She suggests motherwort tincture as needed and explains how to take it.
This audio is just over 2:00 minutes long.

 

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Astragalus

Astragalus

Susun shows us tinctures in different bottles. Including astragalus tincture, which prevents lyme disease, and is a gentle nourishing adaptogenic herb. Improves ability to deal with stress and warding off colds, flu and diabetes.

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Evergreen Oil

Evergreen Oil

There are so many uses for an antiseptic, antibacterial, anti-tumor oil.

Collect needles and twigs of any aromatic evergreen: cedar, juniper, hemlock, spruce, pine. You will also need a bone dry jar, some olive oil, and a label or two. 

Fill the jar very full of evergreen needles and twigs. You may leave them whole or cut them. Make sure their uppermost tips are well below the top of the jar.

Fill the jar to the top with pure olive oil (or other oil of your choice). It is best if there is a “head” of oil floating over the evergreen. Cap well.
Label, including date, on front and top. Place jar in a bowl to catch overflow. Ready to use in six weeks.

 

 

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What is a Simple?

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?
Most herbalists I have met -- whether from China or Japan, Eastern or Western Europe, Australia or North America -- use herbs in combinations. Simplers, like myself, don't. Why?

Because I believe that herbal medicine is people's medicine, I seek to make herbal medicine simple: as simple as one herb at a time. Because people worry about interactions between the drugs they take and herbs, I keep it simple: with simples, interactions are simple to observe, and simpler to avoid. Because empowerment in health care is difficult, I want to offer others easy, safe herbal remedies: and what could be easier, or safer, than a simple?

Simples Make Me Think
When I was just getting started with herbs, one thing that confounded me was the many choices I had when I began to match symptoms to the herbs that relieved them. If someone had a cough should I use garden sage or wild cherry bark or pine sap or mullein or coltsfoot (to name only a few of the many choices)? One way out of this dilemma was to use them all. I made many cough syrups that contained every anti-cough herb that I could collect. And they all worked.

As I got more sophisticated in my herbal usage, and especially after I completed a course on homeopathy, I began to see that each herb had a specific personality, a specific way of acting. I realized I couldn't notice the individual actions of the herbs when they were combined.

It felt daring at first to use just one herb. Would wild cherry bark tincture all by itself be enough to quell that child's cough? Yes! Would mullein infusion alone really reduce a person's asthmatic and allergic reactions? Yes! Would sage soaked in honey for six weeks ease a sore throat? Yes! Each herb that I tried as a simple was successful. They all worked, not just together, but by themselves.

The more I used individual herbs the more I came to know them as individuals. The more I used simples, the simpler and more successful my remedies became. The more I used one herb at a time, the more I learned about how that herb worked, and didn't work.

 

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Linden infusion for Colds

Linden infusion for Colds

Susun Weed and granddaughter Monica Jean focus on dried linden flowers and leaves. Linden infusion is a leading cold remedy.

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Hayfever

Hayfever

A caller on blogtalkradio asks what remedies she can use for Hayfever. Susun talks about tree pollen, and why people have reactions to plants. She suggests Osha tincture while having the allergic reaction and tells a story about how Osha worked for her Aunt.
This audio is just over 5:00 minutes long.

 

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Flu symptoms

Flu symptoms

A caller on blogtalk radio has flu symptoms and wants to know what to use. Susun talks about elderberry tincture, and sauerkraut.
This audio is just over 2 minutes in length. Enjoy!

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Tooth Pain

Tooth Pain

A caller on blogtalk radio has an exposed nerve in her tooth and wants to know what she can do for the pain until she sees a dentist.
Susun starts by saying don't use essential oils and then talks about yarrow tincture and other herbs.
This audio is over 3 minutes in length.

 

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