Healing Wise

A Few Short Questions Regarding Herbal Infusions

Q: ...in your article under "Green Blessings" in yr mid-month March

newsletter:

 

I want to take ALL four: Comfrey, Red Clover, Nettles and Oatstraw.

You suggest brewing each separately.

 

Are they just as efficacious brewed together?

 

Or at least imbibed together by pouring  together after brewing

separately?

 

Is a sun-tea infusion just as good for these particular herbs?  Is

four hours enough?

 

(I already know root herbs need gentle simmering, and these  are all

above-ground plant parts.)

 

In advance, my thanks for your response.  Keep up your great work !

 

Thanks and blessings,

Jean-A Warner

Pearl Arrow

 

 

A:  Jean-A, I think you will find your answers in these two articles.

Yes please do brew them separately, and it is best to drink them

separately, for the reasons mentioned in the first article.  A sun

tea is not the same as the water does not get hot enough.  Four hours

is enough, overnight is great.

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/September04/healingwise.htm

http://www.herbshealing.com/Weed_letter_June02.htm#surprise

Do let me know if I can help further.

Blessings,

Karen Joy

Mercury Detox

Q: Suggestions for detoxing from mercury toxicity would be helpful. Thanks. Stephanie Costello

 

A:  Hello Stephanie, thank you for writing with your interest.  I have heard the concern of mrecury toxicity before.  I would be most interested to nourish the body's ability to process unwanted elements, mostly by nourishing the liver with herbs such as Dandelion, Yellow Dock, or Burdock.  In addition, seaweed is a supreme ally in these situations.  Here are a few articles, the first having many wonderful recipes to help bring seaweed into your diet.  I would recommend this rather than supplement products, usually lacking in quality, like the last article supports (I included it simply for the mention of seaweeds helping remove mercury).

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/Weed_letter_August02.htm#recipe

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0820/n236/19255451/print.jhtml

http://kitchendoctor.com/articles/cilantro.html

 

You will see in the last article Cilantro mentioned.  It is also mentioned in this thread from our forum about detoxing from dental mercury: http://www.susunweed.com/weedforum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=3516.

 

Let me know if I can help in any other way.

 

Blessings,

Karen Joy

Learning About Healing

Dear Susun,

Hello. I am a divorced woman and I have five of the most precious gifts anyone could ask for!!! My children. I am going to be very honest with you about who I am.

#1…A woman very dedicated to children.

#2…A healer of unknown talents.

#3…A heart that is wide open.

#4…and a woman that feels out of place here in my family.

I have made many a journey in nature to speak with…Life…. I heard or felt those who chose to respond to my presence. I have witnessed many beautiful happenings and also was shown the sorrow of Mother Earth.  I am at a place where I left my husband and in so doing, had to leave my four boys with their father and my daughter with my mother. I am considered homeless. I do not feel that way because of the connection I found within myself. I feel like I am a fire that keeps getting doused. I knew that the finer parts of me would die if I stayed in the marriage. I did not know that I would rouse my family into thinking that I am way out there and need help. I know what I experienced and it has been difficult keeping that knowing in my being when I am confronted daily with others that really do not know the Love of the Earth personally.  I feel like crying because I miss my kids so much but I know that the ball started and I have to move with the movement.  My heart sounds so great toward the natural healings that my path is split in two. On one side I would die to self to live again with my children and their father. On the other side I feel like the blood of the “people” is on my hands because I am not being the healer Mother Nature knows I am. I know that I have struggled because of the lack of examples that come from the human. I do know that I need to be an example to those that come after me of a Human Being living here on Earth. The bottom line is that I would cherish an opportunity to learn your sacred way. My dream is so huge that it is difficult to express. I gladly let my dreams pass to others so that the dream doesn’t have to wait on me. I want to live in a way that is very connected to the Earth and I found your website. I am unable to find a place to make money because my natural healing gift is calling from deep within and the normal workplace is so hard for me to be in. I am writing to you because I feel I have to try to make connections for my spirit to survive this space here in Kansas…Please, if you are able, let me know if there is a way to be in your sacred area and bring back into practice what I’ve learned to Kansas.

My thanks to you, for being on the Internet, at a time when who and what you are spoke volumes to my heart.

Thank you for writing.  I know you write this to Susun.  She does not have internet  to be able to correspond through email.  If you wish please do write her a letter at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY  12498.  It is her daughter, with the help of a few of us, and Susun's financial support that allows us to share what we do online.  I hear you wish to learn more from Susun.  There is an abundance to learn online through our many websites, and I am happy to help you find whatever you are searching for within them.  Also through most libraries you can get her books to read.  I recommend you start with Healing Wise, though any would be of benefit.  What else could I help with?  I hear your passion and your needs.

Blessings,
Karen Joy
wisewoman@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com

Apprenticing with Children

Hello!

I am looking to apprentice with someone but I have two little girls.

Are there places that you know of where one can have their children? Thank you for your time.

This is a great question, as I imagine apprenticeship with your girls could be a great benefit to the girls!!

Susun's live-in apprentice program is intense, so it would not leave time for the caring of your girls, since you are asked to focus deeply on yourself.  However you CAN study with her through correspondence course and take her one-day classes with your girls along if you feel they are able to focus.  You can also do her live-out apprentice program if you are able to be away from your girls one weekend a month.

I intend to open up my space for live in apprenticeship for families, though will not be ready until next summer likely, so I am sure places do exist :)

Blessings,

Karen Joy
wisewoman@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com

Raw cheese and the China Study on Milk

Q: Dear Susan,

I totally love your website and articles. I am going to the health food store tomorrow so I can make some nettle, oatstraw and dandelion tea!

I do have a very important question that I hope you can answer. You say that yogurt and raw cheese are good sources of calcium but I am so hesitant to eat them as I read in so many places that dairy causes the formation of mucous which results in so many health problems and that dairy consumption is so bad in general. The China Study and many other works have me terrified at the thought of consuming any dairy at all. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks ever so much!

Sincerely, P.

 

A: Hi P., I do understand your concern... there is so much out there that says that milk is bad for us. First, I encourage you to trust your feeling on it. As I have heard from Susun the whole idea about milk and mucous came from a man who had, well to me, strange ways of determining this. I am sorry I do not remember all the details. As a consumer of organic free ranging meat and dairy and egg products from local farmers, I myself have to wonder if any of the studies are not differentiating between the quality of the product and its effects. Now I can barely bring myself to consume standard store-bought milk or meat or eggs, now that I have this available. I am not saying though that even those are bad for you, but if they bring any harm I wonder if it is not the product but the way the animal was raised, and what was injected into it later, and the homogenization and pasteurization of the milk.

I did recently read about the China Study in Wise Traditions. Here are two excerpts, perhaps showing a different light on it:

http://www.westonaprice.org/bookreviews/chinastudy.html http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/food_in_china.html

As someone who has had a hard time with dairy all my life, with stomach gas, I sware by raw dairy milk and cheeses now. Not only the taste but the feel in my body I trust.

Please let me know if I can help further.

Blessings,
Karen Joy
wisewoman@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com