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White pine

White pine

Susun shows us White pine, and talks about how to identify it. It is one of the most medicinal pines. Anti cough remedy, wound healer, great source of vitamin c.



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Burdock stalk

Burdock stalk

Susun shows us Burdock leaf stalk and talks about how to cook it. She talks about the root and how it grows as well. Burdock is wonderful for the liver and skin.



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Burdock seed

Burdock seed (Arctium lappa)

Those stick-in-your-hair-and-on-your-dog-and-on-your-sweater-too burdock burrs hold a wealth of seeds revered for their medicinal powers. Many plants have seeds that are easier to harvest than their roots, but burdock is not one of them. Digging first year roots (not yet) is hard work, but getting at the seeds is stickery prickery work.

For details on exactly how to handle the seed heads and how to make Burdock Seed Scalp Tonic, please check out the burdock section in Healing Wise.

Ground Ivy, Blood root and more

Ground Ivy, Blood root and more

Walking with Susun, we see ground Ivy, aka creeping Jenny, and blood root which is antibacterial and a gum strengthener. Cleavers, dandelion, and violets.

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Fancy Auntie Bee’s Bergamot Tincture

Fancy Auntie Bee’s Bergamot Tincture
(Auntie Bee: Antiviral, antiseptic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory bergamot!)

Harvest bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) when the sun is hot and it has been dry for a while.

Chop the leaves and stalks coarsely and fill a jar very full with the plant material.
Cover completely with 100 proof vodka.
Lid, label, and wait six weeks.

Start with a dose of 10 drops and increase as needed.

Try making one tincture before the plant flowers and another that includes the flowers.
Is there a difference? Which do you prefer?

 

 

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Fresh hypericum tincture or oil

Fresh hypericum tincture or oil

On the sunniest day of the summer, look in fields and along roadsides for the yellow flowers of Hypericum perforatum (aka St. John’s/St. Joan’s wort) and get ready to make two of the Great Remedies. Take both 100 proof vodka and pure olive oil with you when you go out to stalk St. John’s/St. Joan’s wort, bottles of various sizes, and a pair of sharp scissors.

Depending on the abundance or scarcity of flowers, I harvest anything from just the blossoms to the top third of the Hypericum plant. So long as the day is sunny and the plants dry the tincture will be active and medicinal even if it contains a fair amount of stalk and leaves. I also make a quart of this tincture as I use it frequently, in dropperful doses.

If you are using tops rather than just flowers, chop as needed. I often harvest Hypericum flowers right into my jar and fill it with vodka or oil while still afield, insuring optimum freshness and maximum fairy blessings.

Cover tightly. Label. I do not put my oil in the sun, but some people swear by it. Try one each way and see what you think. Your St. J’s tincture and your St. J’s oil will be ready to use in six weeks.

 

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More Wild Plant Identification

More Wild Plant Identification

Susun goes on a weed walk in a vacant lot and shows us St Joans wort (hypericum perforatum), purple loose strife, cronewort aka mugwort (artemisia vulgaris), sumac, queen annes lace and more. She talks about some uses of these "weeds".

 

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Treating Acne

Treating Acne

A caller on blogtalkradio asks about how to help a teenager treat acne. Susun talks about yarrow tincture, directly on the face and dandelion root.
This audio is almost 3 minutes long.

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Skunk Cabbage, Stinging Nettles, & Mustard Greens

Skunk Cabbage, Stinging Nettles, &  Mustard Greens

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

 

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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.

Excerpt from Healing Wise
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Herbs for First aid - Part 2

Herbs for First aid - Part 2

Join Susun for part 2 of her discussion on Herbs to use for First aid, bumps, cuts, sprains etc... on her Time Monk Radio show.
This audio is almost 18 minutes in length.
Enjoy!!

 

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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

Comfrey Leaf Oil

Comfrey Leaf Oil

Susun Weed shows you how to make comfrey leaf oil - its easy and inexpensive. Use comfrey oil to make salve for skin ailments.

Sinus relief

Sinus Relief - Home Remedies

Home remedies for sinus relief including horseradish and reflexology.

Supplements vs infusions

Supplements vs infusions

A caller on blogtalk radio 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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