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Is there any news about herbal ?The salient thing that I`ve found to be so valuable about Susun Weed`s work are the distinctions made between the heroic, scientific, and wise woman traditions. I`ve explored these traditions on my `spiritual path` and I`ve found the WW paradigm to be so pleasantly, refreshingly...life-affirming.[:I] I remember being at a yoga ashram a few years ago and feeling like I had learned valuable lessons; yet I was taken aback by some of the rigid/repressive aspects of the Yogic traditions. Some things were a bit hard to swallow (compulsory vegetarianism, subtle misogyny, `masters` who professed to be kind and gentle but who also had their bullying/obnoxious aspects.) It was a pretty intense introduction for me...and was a real eye-opener. It seems to me that the Wise Woman tradition celebrates and embraces life in all of its chaos and complexity. It`s about sensuality, love, laughter, good food, making use of materials that are common and cheap (that one REALLY resonated for me--man`s tendency to create artificial `value` by glorifying what is rare, foreign and hard to get has always been a source of frustration for me.) It seems that this tradition is joyous and fun and celebrates life above `discipline` `righteousness` and `cleanliness`. Well, Hallelujah![ ][ ] And I am also glad that Susun Weed makes the point of a healer keeping his/her ego at bay as an inherent aspect of the WW style. It sounds natural and right that when a midwife delivers a child she would feel inwardly glad that she could be a facilitator in the woman`s birth process; not the hero, the champion or the `star` at the operating table. Humility and gratitude as the order of the day is certainly something to think about. So wonderful and so rare in such self-promoting times as these.[ ] This book helped set me straight on how to take information from various sources with a grain of salt and incorporate it all into my life in a more wholistic context that makes sense to me. When I am looking over `scientific` data I can now better understand the spirit that it came from and make more wholesome and enlightened decisions about personal and global wellness. Thanks Susun Weed for this remarkable gift...your teachings have truly enhanced my life. I had the book Weed WIse- and loaned it - never to see it again- and then Justine sent me another one.... along with the Childbearing Year.... The thing about Susun`s books that stand out to me is that for me they are like reading the thoughts in a diary... they are real and immanent - applicable in the NOW. Not "choreographed" and not filled with platitudes just to be commercially pleasing... Susun says it as she knows it - and this makes her credible and invaluable. Not only that- but the underlying messages in her books are helpful not only practically in regards to healing medicines... but also to personal healing - emotional healing... I feel that Susun gives new perspectives- new perceptions on ways in which we experience ourselves and our life... MOST helpful... And, probably the biggest reason I remember her books over all others was the time I was going through some difficult life challenges... though they were not particularly PHYSICAL... I found help (by accident- I happened to just "open the book") - for the emotional and psychological struggles I was trying to reconcile.... I remember I cried at that moment. This impact for me says alot. Among the handful of books in the world I think every woman should read- Susun Weeds books (articles and anything else she shares) - are among the TOP on that list. I stumbled across Susun`s book Wise Women Herbal for the Childbearing Years during my research on the internet, while pregnant with my daughter Daphne. I borrowed her book from my local library and actually copied down the whole thing (a little abridged) into a notebook! I made many of the tinctures she wrote about and had them ready for when I went into labor. I planned to have an Unassisted Childbirth, so her guidance and suggestions definitely helped me feel more secure in my decision to UC. I used a little of the labor tincture, and some shepherd`s purse before and during labor. I think the thought of me having all of these remedies eased my mind A LOT. I want to someday make it to her home for the simple herbal apprentice. My daughter is six and half months old, so I can`t do it until next year. I am so thankful that my husband is willing to watch her for me! He says that now, but when I actually have to go, he`ll probably put up a fight! (Same with my UC). We`ve only been a part for one night at a time, so being gone for two weeks will be so strange. Herbs and memoryNowhere is popular fascination with herbs more evident than in the public gardens of the United States and England. At Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, tourists flock to re-created gardens where men and women in period costume demonstrate how medicinal and household herbs were used.In restaging scenes our ancestors knew, the actors dip skeins of yarn into dyebaths of marigold orange, day-lily yellow, and walnut brown, and make candles from boiling beeswax redolent of bayberry. To this herb seeker the Williamsburg experience came full circle in the great exhibits and historic gardens of England. That nation`s oldest botanical garden, founded at Oxford University in 1621, is still a center for plant science and education. So is the Chelsea Physic Garden, born 50 years later, and active ever since in medicinal-plant studies. "A current program," curator Allen Paterson told me, "involves the rye ergot fungus, long used to aid childbirth and recently to ease migraine." There are the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, on the Thames, whence for two centuries plant explorers have gone out to change medicines and economies of the world. The gorgeous displays planted for kings and queens at Hampton Court Palace lure visitors from everywhere. And the lovely Elizabethan garden at Shakespeare`s home has imitators but few equals. In the United States an ambitious newcomer has joined leading botanical institutions. The National Herb Garden, dedicated in June 1980 at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., is devoted exclusively to herbs. The largest of its kind, it is Uncle Sam`s bid for a place in the international sun. "Doctors come here to study drug plants in the medicinal garden, one of our ten specialty sections," said curator Holly Shimizu. "Historians check herb species in our colonial and American Indian plots. Businessmen inquire about the future of promising industrial herbs and new perfumes, beverages, and dyes to be extracted from still unexplored plants." Project index
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