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Herbalist Linda Conroy

Herbalist Linda Conroy

Susun interviews Linda Conroy.
Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Wise Woman, Bioregional Herbalist, A Wild and Whole Food Afficinado and a Community Organizer. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries, a Women's Mushroom Gathering. She lives at her homestead in southern Wisconsin with the plants, mushrooms, ducks, chickens, rabbits, honey bees, great pyreness and familiar felines. She teaches classes and runs apprenticeship programs based on the wise woman tradition.
She can be reached at www.moonwiseherbs.com or midwestwomensherbal.com



Q & A topics in this episode include:
* caller follow-up: dog with pressure sore
* visual disturbances following physical exertion
* scalp infection
* facial acne
* willow bark
* brahmi
* brain fog/improving sleep quality
* corneal abrasion

Ganjasana Plant Medicine School, Rachael Carlevale.

Ganjasana Plant Medicine School, Rachael Carlevale.

Susun interviews Rachael Carlevale.
Rachael Carlevale is the Founder and Director of Education of the Ganjasana Plant Medicine School where she leads cannabis yoga ceremonies, and facilitates CEU courses and trainings on regenerative farming, ganja yoga YTT, permaculture and biodynamics. Speaking on behalf of the natural world, Rachael honors the plants and life in the soil by transmitting their messages for the wellbeing of all—regenerating body, mind and soil for the collective. Rachael is a certified Mindfulness Educator, and Certified Yoga Instructor with an academic foundation in plant and soil sciences (receiving high honors Bachelors of Science degree from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Ayurveda, Women’s Health and ethnobotanical traditions. She works with many plant allies including a deep passion for cannabis, hemp, and ayahuasca. Rachael is also the founder of the Green Tent - Women’s Cannabis Circles, and contributes to GRAM Magazine with her ‘Cultivation Column.’ She offers her gifts by the ocean coast of Maine, where she lives in alignment with the natural rhythms of the sun, moon, and stars, and grows living soil, regenerative cannabis, and vermicompost.
www.ganjasana.com



Q & A topics in this episode include:
making violet honey with the leaves
strengthening the core & pelvic floor
lowering blood sugar levels
allergens
tubal ligation & birth control choices
claiming plant heritage
plantar warts
sharing remedies & medicines
anti-viral artemesia, Sweet Annie
cannbis & anxiety
chickweed

Dr. Nicole Apelian

Dr. Nicole Apelian

Susun interviews Dr. Nicole Apelian
Dr. Nicole Apelian is an herbalist, a biologist, an anthropologist, a survival skills instructor, and a mother. Nicole was a challenger on the second and fifth seasons of the History Channel's tv series "Alone", where she thrived in the wilderness totally solo with little more than her knife and her wits. She also stars in the new UK documentary mini-series "Surviving the Stone Age: Adventure in the Wild". She is the author of two books, The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies: The Healing Power of Plant Medicine and A Reference Guide to Surviving Nature: Outdoor Preparation and Remedies (GEAR-WILDLIFE-WEATHER-FIRST AID).
An unexpected diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2000 led Nicole to apply her scientific research skills towards her own personal wellness. She focuses on a healthy living strategy, including deep nature connection and gratitude practices. Through changes in her lifestyle & diet, recognizing profound mind-body linkages, and making and using her own herbal remedies, Nicole went from bedridden to being fully alive and from surviving to thriving. At home in the Pacific Northwest, she makes her own herbal medicines from local plants as part of her healthy living strategy, especially as related to autoimmune issues, and has her own herbal medicinal apothecary line.
Find out more about Nicole at www.nicoleapelian.com



Q & A topics include:
tannin connection to cancer
post-menopausal weight gain
COVID-19 vaccine
digestive upset after eating dairy/yougurt
guttate psoriasis

Interviews with Susun

Interviews with Susun.

Nursing yourself through COVID-19

Susun Weed and Francesca De Grandis discuss whether you can nurse yourself through COVID-19 if you end up alone with it. 

https://outlawbunny.com/2020/10/11/can-i-nurse-myself-through-covid-19-if-im-alone/

 

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End of Life Care

Herbalists extraordinaire, Brigitte Mars and Susun Weed, have both embraced and excelled in their roles as herbalists and wise women. Supporting everyone through all stages of life, in this interview, they share about end of life care.

https://tributariesradio.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/brigitte-mars-and-susun-weed/

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Nutritional biochemist Steve Blake

Nutritional biochemist Steve Blake

Susun interviews Steve Blake.
Steve Blake, ScD is a doctor of science specializing in nutritional biochemistry. He is a registered professional herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Master Herbalist. He is author of the worldwide database the Herb Doctors with 168,000 herbal facts. He is Director of Nutritional Neuroscience at the Maui Memory Clinic. He worked as Faculty Nutritional Biochemist at Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience for years. He just published a clinical study in the Journal of Brain Sciences on reversing dementia. He is research director at the Neuroscience Nutrition Foundation. He has presented grand rounds at many hospitals. He is recently credentialed to work in China setting up hospital programs to reverse disorders using nutrition. He is author of 16 major works on the effects of nutrition on health, including Nutrients for Memory
(www.drsteveblake.com).



Q & A topic in this episode include:
hydroxychloroquine
Lyme disease recovery
health care availability
alcohol-free disinfectants
harvesting and using yarrow
ovarian cyst follow-up
choosing herbs
atrial fibrillation
loss of appetite due to medication

The Natural Nurse Ellen Kamhi

The Natural Nurse Ellen Kamhi

Susun interviews Ellen Kamhi.
A PhD, RN, AHG-RH, AHN-BC, _The Natural Nurse®_ has been involved in Natural Medicine since 1973. Dr. Kamhi is a MedicalSchool Instructor, teaching Botanical Pharmacology, offers online and onground Herbal Certification Programs, and leads EcotoursForCures.com to indigenous areas of the world. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG-RH), and is an adept at radionics and dowsing. Author of many books including The Natural Medicine Chest, Arthritis, The Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide, and radio host, Dr. Kamhi educates professionals and consumers about how to care for themselves Naturally!
www.naturalnurse.com



Q & A topics in this episode include:
heat intolerance
thrush
sore throat & blisters in the mouth
inner ear troubles / balance issues
previous caller follow-up re: chest pain

DNA Activations Shirley Bolstok

DNA Activations Shirley Bolstok

Susun interviews Shirley Bolstok.
Shirley was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Her parents were Holocaust Survivors. She has authored books such as "Apples from the tree of Life, Impassioned Soul, and Grapes from the Vines of Life." She is an energy healer, speaker, teacher as well as a medium who is able to connect with those on the other side and has spoken at the 11:11 and 12:12 Earth Star Conferences in and has been guest on numerous radio shows. She does very specific work called the Number "8" and I AM DNA Activations. Shirley is a certified Matrix Energetics Practitioner, works with past lives, mediumistic information, frequencies and some other modalities. Questions about various healing systems are also invited. She reads and works with each individual as a part of the collective consciousness. Her goal is to give each individual the tools to work with their own ascension and works with mapping within the Spiritual Physical and Emotional Bodies that lead to increased consciousness, abundance and awakening to our true selves.

'Medical Parenting' Jacqueline Jones

'Medical Parenting' Jacqueline Jones

Susun interviews Jacqueline Jones.
As the mother of two grown children Dr. Jones has navigated the medical system with her own children. Her expertise as a physician and surgeon with over 25 years experience make her uniquely qualified to give parents mean- ingful advice. Dr. Jones trained as a physician at Cornell Medical College as well as completing her surgical training at University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School. She is listed as one of America’s Top doctors and is a Clinical Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Surgeons.

'Raising the Bottom' Lisa Boucher

'Raising the Bottom' Lisa Boucher

Susun interviews Lisa Boucher.
After short stints where Lisa trained polo horses, worked as a flight attendant, hairdresser, and bartender, she revamped her life and settled in as a registered nurse. For the past twenty-eight years has worked with hundreds of women to overcome alcoholism, live better lives and become better parents. Raising the Bottom is her fifth book. She was prompted to write Raising the Bottom when she realized after twenty plus years of working in hospitals, that doctors and traditional health care offer few solutions to women with addiction issues. She is the mother of twin sons, and lives in Ohio with her husband.
Find out more about Lisa by visiting her website: Raisingthebottom.com
You can also follow her on Twitter @LBoucherAuthor and Instagram!

Cymatic Medicine with Mandara Cromwell

Cymatic Medicine with Mandara Cromwell

Susun interviews Mandara Cromwell.
Mandara Cromwell, DCM, Doctorate of Cymatic Medicine and President of Cyma Technologies, is an American woman entrepreneur who manufactures her own inventions, the AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence Cymatherapy devices. The AMI 750 was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Fields of Science and Medicine in 2013. She was inspired to create her own company to preserve the integrity of the specific healing frequency patterns that were passed to her as a body of work from British osteopath, Dr. Peter Guy Manners, in 2001.



this episode Q&A includes:
• stats on life expectancy of people who have annual visits to doctor's office
• sleep! listen to this episode for sound sleep advice for sufferers of sleep apnea
• breast discharge from breast with benign lump, could be caused from diagnostic procedure
• traumatic birth and how to recover (discuss motherwort, guilt and medical system)
• autism more closely linked to ultra sound than vaccinations
• medicalization of anything brings up fear; impossible to make a good decision when afraid
• role of doctors and role of midwives (doctor / midwife)