Weed Wanderings Herbal Medicine with Susun Weed
February 2005
Volume 5 Number 2

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Healing Wise ...
Be Your Own Herbal Expert
Part 6

- Herbal Oils, Infused vs. Essential -
by Susun S. Weed © 2005


(part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 7 - part 8)

Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use - plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It's easy. You can do it too, and you don't need a degree or any special training. Ancient memories arise in you when you begin to use herbal medicine - memories which keep you safe and fill you with delight. These lessons are designed to nourish and activate your inner herbalist so you can be your own herbal expert.

In our first session we learned how to "listen" to the messages of plant's tastes. In session two we learned about simples and how to make effective water-based herbal remedies. The third session helped us distinguish safe nourishing and tonifying herbs from the more dangerous stimulating and sedating herbs. Our fourth session focused on poisons in herbs and entered the herbal pharmacy to herbal tinctures, which we collected into an Herbal Medicine Chest. Our fifth session found us still in the pharmacy, learning how to make and use herbal vinegars for strong bones and healthy hearts.

In this, our sixth session, we remain in the herbal pharmacy and turn our attention to herbs in fat bases. We'll explore fresh infused oils, ointments, salves, and lip balms, essential oils, and even herbal pestos.


HERBAL OILS: INFUSED VS. ESSENTIAL

Lu Lu Design - Kathy Crabbe paints primarily from her imagination using silk dyes on silk, watercolors and acrylics.I make and use many infused herbal oils. I use little or no essential oils. Why?

Infused herbal oils use a small amount of plant material; essential oils require tons of plant material. Infused herbal oils are safe to use internally or externally; essential oils are poisonous internally and problematic externally. Infused herbal oils are good for the skin; essential oils can cause rashes, burns, and other skin reactions. Infused oils are used full strength; essential oils are diluted before use. Infused herbal oils have subtle scents; essential oils have powerful scents.

The scent of an essential oil can kill gut flora just like antibiotics do.

Massage therapists are embracing Natural Scent Therapies such as growing live aromatic plants in their treatment rooms and using pillows of dried aromatic herbs instead of essential oils. Their skin and their immune systems are thanking them for the switch.


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Personal Mentorship with Susun Weed at the
Herbal Medicine Mentorship level – click here to get the details

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Study with Susun Weed in the convenience of your home! Choose from four Correspondence Courses: Green Allies, Spirit & Practice of the Wise Woman Tradition, Green Witch, and ABC of Herbalism - includes audio/video tapes, books, assignments, special mailings, plus personal time.

Learn more at www.susunweed.com or write to:
Susun Weed
PO Box 64
Woodstock, NY 12498

Fax: 1-845-246-8081

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Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.

Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world. Learn more at www.susunweed.com

Introducing a brand new course:

ABC of Herbalism
A Correspondence Course with Susun Weed

A special course for the aspiring herbalist who would like to have me "by your side" teaching you how to identify, harvest, and buy 52 healing herbs. I'll "watch over your shoulder" as you make nourishing herbal infusions, tinctures, vinegars, oils, honeys, poultices, soups, and beauty aids.

Your studies will be both experiential and intellectual. You will make and use herbal remedies as well as reading about them in a variety of sources. You will try out my favorite remedies.

Your course materials include:
* Fifty-two herbal projects and twenty health projects to complete at your own pace. (Value $100)
* Guidance in developing a green ally.
* Five herbals: 1. A City Herbal; 2. Common Herbs for Natural Health; 3. Healing Wise; 4. The Herb Book; 5. Natural Health Bible
* Up to four more books -- your choice from the enclosed list. (Value up to $65)
* Four of my audiotapes or one of my videotapes -- your choice from the enclosed list. (Value $40)
* Three hours of phone time to talk with me personally. (Value $300)
* Initiation and completion gifts.
* Erratic mailings several times a year for two years. (Value $50)
* A 50% discount on three days of classes with me. (Value up to $150)
* A graduation certificate for you to frame and hang. (Priceless)



Click here to learn more about the ABC's of Herbalism Correspondence Course

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