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Plant Medicine Singer Johanna Warren

Plant Medicine Singer Johanna Warren

Susun interviews Johanna Warren.
On the national US record release tour for her new album "Gemini II,"singer-songwriter Johanna Warren is blending her musical path with her passion for herbalism. On her recent "Plant Medicine Tour," she aligned with local herbalists, farmers and activists in every city she visited to share about their work, sell their medicines and connect with their communities.



this episode Q&A includes:
• passionflower- passiflora incarnata is the only medicinal variety..
• monotropa uniflora is used incredibly sparingly..
• headache that has to do with the liver with pain behind the eyes- chinese medicine perspective..
• using hypericum perforatum for symptoms of Lyme..
• not recommended for anyone to be gluten free that is not celiacs..
• copperhead snake bite and options for herbs to relieve inflammation..
• why not to get a mammogram..
• creating a sacred time when bleeding can stop cramping- antispasmodic herbs..

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Susun interviews Z Budapest.
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for women and young girls.



this episode Q&A includes:
• cervical spondylosis- affirmations and visulizations give us our life back, comfrey..
• castor oil pack to treat bone spurs..
• every atom in my body is new every 7-10 days- atoms make up cells..
• a poultice or fomentation..
• low iron- red meat, liver, nettle infusion- plant iron needs animal iron to circulate in the blood..
• yucca used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis- desert southwest plant, preparations..
• soul retrieval by covering the body with the earth..

Astrologer Virginia Bell

Astrologer Virginia Bell

Susun interviews Virginia Bell.
Virginia Bell is a full time writer and astrologer. She has written horoscope columns for websites and magazines. She currently writes for Die Welt (the German publication) and Watch! the CBS magazine and blog for The Huffington Post. Virginia is the author of Midlife Is Not A Crisis: Using Astrology To Thrive In The Second Half Of Life. She currently lectures on astrology, inspiration and aging.
Before becoming involved in astrology she owned one of the first natural foods restaurants in New York City: Whole Wheat 'N Wild Berrys (from 1974-1995). She then went on to own a second restaurant in the Berkshires from 1988-1991. Virginia co-authored The Manhattan Health Pages: A Guide to Educate, Pamper and Inspire You. During that period Virginia also lectured on health and wellness.



this episode Q&A includes:
• basically all raspberry species are used the same medicinally- growing cycle and when to harvest..
• seeds of yellow dock used for medicine and food..
• making lavender sun tea..
• comfrey for closed injuries at the joint, muscles, ligaments, tendons and bones..
• cancer care and quality of life or quantity of life..
• cancer diagnosis- the first thing you're going to have to cope with is your fear and anxiety..
• homeopathy used to clear family tendencies- literally change at a genetic level..

'Soulflower Oracle Deck' Lisa Estabrook

'Soulflower Oracle Deck' Lisa Estabrook

Lisa is an artist, graphic designer, mother, obsessive gardener and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years since graduating college trying to figure out how to live a healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s self-publication in the summer of 2016 launched Soulflower, Lisa’s heART based business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet through the power of art and flowers. Flower emPower! Her guiding principle is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower ourselves to live guided by the wisdom in our hearts rather than the voices in our heads. And this, she believes, is how we will heal this Earth.



this episode Q&A includes:
• baby with intermittent fever- what are the possibilities- treating bacterial and viral infections..
• torn off toenail on dog- plantain, yarrow..
• telling people what they like and don't like creates codependency..
• the less you say about others, the better off you'll be..
• most women have ended their periods by age 45-50- talking to your body..
• communicating with plants..
• making medicine from cleavers..
• annuals and perennials...
• wild lettuce- biennials and annuals..
• fennel seed tea to lower histamine..