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 Aromatherapy and Emotions
Aromas effect mood and evoke memories. For example, Frankincense and Cypress have been said to aid in dispelling grief, while Ylang Ylang and Juniper are claimed to aid in coping with guilt.... more >>
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 Building a Container for Rachel
The first cycle of essences was chosen to soothe, anchor and protect Rachel. We wanted to enable her to experience being grounded in her body without sliding into depression or returning to a scattered, manic mode of behavior. more >>
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 Dandelion Greens
Ahh, spring aromas wafting up from the warming earth. How I love foraging. In addition to the anticipation of the upcoming feast, there’s the thrill of the find, the pleasure of piling a basket with freely given gifts and a feeling of inter-relatedness that being outdoors engenders. Indeed, foraging is humankind’s oldest profession. more >>
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 Ease Those Bug Bites with Easy Herbs
Take a leaf from Susun S. Weed's storehouse of natural remedies. Soothe, heal, & prevent bites with safe herbal remedies that grow right where you live:north or south, east or west, city or country. The best natural remedies for insect bites are right underfoot. more >>
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 Flower Essence Formulas: Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis
Flower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis. more >>
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 Flower Essence Society Archive
The Flower Essence Society (FES)is an international membership organization of health practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in deepening knowledge of flower essence therapy. more >>
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 Healthy Bones The Wise Woman Way
In the Wise Woman Tradition, we focus on the patient, not the problem. The more we focus on disease, even disease prevention, the less likely we are to know how to nourish health-wholeness-holiness. more >>
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 Herbal Pharmacy
Here is everything you need to start making those herbal infusions, tinctures & medicines from your garden right now, with clear & simple instructions. more >>
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 Herbal Vinegars
A pantry full of herbal vinegars is a constant delight. Preserving fresh herbs and roots in vinegar is an easy way to capture their nourishing goodness. It's easy too.You don't even have to have an herb garden. more >>
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 Herbs that Ease Anxiety and Fear
Herbalist Susun Weed shares her favorite herbs and simple home remedies for dealing with fear, anxiety, nervousness, grief, depression, rage, fatigue, and sleeplessness. more >>
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 Jane's Homemade Anointing Oils
Jane's Homemade organic Reiki & crystal infused anointing oils have been lovingly crafted for sacred work, for entering into sacred time. Anoint yourself and unite your body with the Divine Source of all Creation. more >>
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 Lemon Chest Compress
Hot Lemon Chest Compress—to help overcome a lingering cough, a stubborn chest congestion and asthmatic wheezing. more >>
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 Love-Lies-Bleeding and Francis of Assisi
Love-lies-bleeding flower essence helps lift the consciousness beyond individual suffering to identify with world suffering. In offering one’s suffering to a higher purpose, while cultivating compassion for the suffering of others, one’s own pain no longer weighs so heavily on the soul. more >>
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 Menopausal Years, the Wise Woman Way
Menopause is a period of transition and metamorphosis, like puberty. It consists of three stages: isolation, melt down, and emergence. Each stage calls forth new energies and new perceptions of ourselves. more >>
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 Menopause is Enlightenment
Kundalini is usually represented as a serpent coiled at the base of the spine, but women's mystery stories locate it in the uterus - or the area where the uterus was, if a hysterectomy has occurred. During both puberty and menopause, a woman's kundalini is difficult to control and may cause a great number of symptoms. more >>
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 Pine Needle Tea
The foragers among you will love this delicious and healthful drink. A wonderful way to commune with Winter. more >>
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 Psychic Self Defense
Empathy is the forerunner of compassion, and therefore a potentially very positive experience. However there is a danger involved in the empathic experience we should all understand. more >>
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 Psycho-neuro-immunology
Explore the relationships between the nervous system, emotions, and the immune system; elucidating the links between our states of mind and our states of health. more >>
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 Rosalie’s Healing Story
Sitting there with our feverish and congested child in the middle of the night, it was all we could do not to panic and rush her straight to the hospital for antibiotics. But because of our commitment to avoid them, we called our anthroposophical doctor, who told us to do three lemon wraps a day. more >>
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 Saint John's Wort
Saint John's Wort is an outstanding herbal remedy steeped in many folk legends and traditions of healing. It has five-petaled, bright yellow blossoms with protruding stamens which flower at the height of summer. more >>
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 Stocking Your Cupboard in the Nuclear Age
We are charged with the Soul task of being good stewards for the earth & for ourselves & one another. Here are some things you can do to prepare for living on our Mother Earth in the nuclear age. more >>
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 Sunflower & Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Study in Spiritual Surrender
The Sunflower essence is a catalyst for developing one's personal identity in relation to a larger spiritual Self. Love-Lies-Bleeding essence has proven to be a powerful balm for those undergoing great physical and psychic pain. When the soul has been stretched to the breaking point, it can enter another dimension of spiritual awareness. more >>
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 Susun Weed, Herbal Health
Susun Weed is a green witch and wise woman, an extraordinary teacher with a joyous spirit, a powerful presence, and an encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health. more >>
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 The Lazy Gardener's Spring Cilantro Pumpkin Seed Pesto
I am such a lazy gardener that I had the good fortune this spring to discover a veritable emerald forest of 'volunteer' young cilantro seedlings in the vegetable bed! Upon this serendipitous discovery I created a delicious way to make use of this delicious, nutritious & fragrant herb. more >>
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 Weed Walk
Take a walk around your home or neighborhood to find simple weed allies to support your health! more >>
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 Weeds in Your Garden? - Bite Back!
I always say the gardener's best revenge is to eat the weeds. I've been doing it for thirty years and can testify that my health and the health of my garden has never been better. Here are a few hints for gardeners who'd rather eat their weeds than hate them (and for non-gardeners who are adventurous enough to try out nature's bounty) more >>
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 The Ancient Roots of Fragrant Medicine
June 7, 2011
The majority of the world's population still largely depends on traditional medicines based on medicinal and aromatic plants and for many people in developing countries herbal medicines are still the only medicines that are available. In many cases, herbs are used today in the same ways that they were hundreds and even thousands of years ago. more >>
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 Radioprotective Effects of Holy Basil (Tulsi)
May 13, 2011
Can Tulsi Tea REALLY Protect Against Radiation Sickness? There has been little public mention of the well documented radioprotective effects of Holy Basil, which is also known in its native India as Tulsi. Tulsi is venerated in India as one of the most sacred herbs and has been used there for thousands of years as a principle herb of the Ayurvedic tradition. Learn more about the radioprotective effects of Holy Basil. more >>
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 Yarrow Environmental Solution: Say YES to your health!
April 15, 2011
Yarrow Environmental Solution (YES) from the Flower Essence Society is a highly beneficial blend of flower essences & plant tinctures in a sea salt base. Its purpose is to strengthen and protect against toxic environmental influences, geopathic stress & other hazards of technology-dominated modern life. This includes the disruptive effects of radiation on human energy fields from X-rays, televisions, computer monitors, cellular phones, electromagnetic fields, airplane flights, radiation treatments & contamination from nuclear power plants or fall-out. more >>
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 Anti-Radiation Salad Medley or Seaweed & Green Salad
April 14, 2011
Why not build up your immune system, eat delicious food & escort potential radiation exposure out of your system at the same time! Try this easy way to eat your seaweed & your greens too! Just add a cup of nettles & red clover tea with this meal & you'll double your benefits in protecting your health after exposure to radiation or to prepare your immune system for whatever the future may hold. more >>
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 Summer Quinoa Salad with Vegetables served with Tomato, Peach & Corn Relish
August 31, 2010
This main course grain & vegetable 'salad' has been the hit dish of this summer season in our household for home or pot luck meals. The cooked quinoa, mixed with roast potatoes or tofu along with the freshest just cooked green vegetables from the farmer's market, lightly seasoned with the tastes of summer, make this dish not only easy to prepare but delicious to eat & filled with protein for someone on a vegetarian diet! more >>
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 Herbs for Hags
April 24, 2009
"I'm so glad I'm finally old. Sadly, many of my friends don't like me to use that word. They say they don't want to be 'old'. I think what they really mean is they don't want to be the kind of old that's infirm and dependent. I agree." Read Susun's take on being a Crone Elder. more >>
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 My Journey with Southernwood
July 16, 2006
When I embarked on a course of oil dispersion bath therapy for my severe fibromyalgia, I found myself unexpectedly walking a path of inner growth and healing that has brought physical, emotional and spiritual benefits. more >>
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 Our Collapsing Food System -- And How to Fix It
February 24, 2006
The global agricultural-industrial complex is destroying the environment, exploiting farmers around the world, and delivering low-quality, high-cost food to unwary consumers. But a host of alternatives are springing up to provide nutritious food from sustainable farm communities. more >>
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 Owned by Illness: An Anthroposophical Approach to Wellness
October 3, 2005
Anthroposophical medicine sees the spirit as the conductor of our life's symphony and the instruments as our physical attributes. When we experience illness, we need to adjust our life rhythms with herbs, dance, massage, painting and oil baths. more >>
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