excerpt from New Menopausal Years the
Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed
pp. 237-243
My favorite herbs for post-menopausal women are horsetail,
oatstraw, red clover, stinging nettle, seaweeds, and the
plants rich in flavonoids. These gentle green allies are
more like foods than drugs; they offer bone-creating,
heart-protecting, disease-preventing, sex-enhancing optimum
nourishment to the woman in the second half of her life.
Horsetail
Equisetum arvense
Ackerschachtelhalm, Prêle des champs
Horsetail is particularly rich in glycosides which nourish
hormones, heart, and bones, making it a special ally for
post-menopausal women.
Use spring-picked horsetail, as a tea or infusion, to:
• Reverse osteoporosis
• Stimulate fracture-mending and bone repair Mineral-rich
horsetail feeds the bones, increasing mass and flexibility.
No matter how old or thin, bones respond to consistent
use of horsetail.
• Stabilize and reverse chronic periodontal disease
Gum problems can lead to heart problems. Brush, floss,
and try a daily cup of horsetail tea. It acts as a catalyst
to healthy gums and teeth.
• Relieve cystitis
Horsetail has been used since the sixteenth century to
tonify the bladder and ease irritation anywhere in the
urinary tract. Plants harvested when too old may aggravate
rather than soothe.
• Reduce bloat
• Check menstrual hemorrhage
• Prevent clogged arteries, strengthen veins
• Ease persistent hot flashes
Horsetail's astringent components, trace minerals (including
chrom-ium), saponins, and flavonoids are responsible for
these effects. Add horsetail to your nettle infusion to
magnify the benefits of both.
• Increase energy, reduce fatigue
Horsetail supplies peppy potassium, merry magnesium, and
strong-as-nails iron for building Crone power.
• Nourish strong, healthy hair and fingernails
Horsetail is a frequent ingredient in expensive, natural,
commercial shampoos and rinses. Instead, use leftover
horsetail tea (alone or with nettle) as your final rinse.
Leave it in. And drink a cup now and then for lovely nails.
Horsetail is locally abundant in the wild, so rarely
cultivated. The small horsetail that looks like a soft
baby pine tree is preferred over the rigid, leafless kind.
To avoid problems, use horsetail picked early, during
the first 4-6 weeks of each year's growth.
A tea of dried herb works great, as does the vinegar.
When buying horsetail, look for good green color and a
rich sparkle of health and vitality.
Dosage: Tea of dried herb, 1 cup/250 ml, 1-2 times a
day
Vinegar of fresh herb, 1 tablespoon/15 ml daily
CAUTION: If you experience nervous sensitivity
or urinary irritability after use, discontinue.
Oatstraw
Avena sativa
Gruen Hafer, Avoine cultivée
This is the grass of the very same oats you eat for breakfast.
Best known as a cholesterol-lowering food, oats is also
a special ally to women who wish they wouldn't “fly
off the handle” so easily, to women who want to
be sexy old ladies, and to women who treasure their bones.
All the benefits of eating oatmeal are to be had from
drinking oatstraw infusion (but not from tea, tincture,
or capsules).
Let lovely Avena help you to:
• Build strong, pliable, flexible bones
• Maintain firm, reliable teeth
Rich in calcium — and the synergistic minerals and
vitamins needed for best use of calcium — oats have
a well-deserved reputation for building tough, hardy folks
with tough, hardy bones.
• Stabilize blood sugar levels
• Relieve depression and ease emotional uproar
A cup of oatstraw infusion in the morning provides steroidal
saponins to nourish your pancreas, liver, and adrenals
and help prevent erratic blood sugar levels from playing
havoc with your emotions.
• Reduce cholesterol and risk of heart disease,
improve circulation
Oats and oatstraw can make your blood vessels more elastic,
more vital. How will you notice? Your hemorrhoids and
varicose veins will shrink, your heart rate will slow,
and disturbances in your heart rate (such as palpitations
and tachycardia) will diminish or disappear.
• Nourish strong nerves
• Help you engage high energy currents
Oatstraw and oats, both superior sources of the vitamin
B complex, are exceptionally capable allies for women
under stress.
• Reduce frequency and duration of headaches
• Maintain restful sleep patterns
• Ease bladder spasms, incontinence, uterine pain,
vaginal dryness
Oatstraw infusion in your teacup and your bathtub (ahhh!)
relieves physical and emotional pains and energy disturbances,
and strengthens vaginal, bladder, and urethral tissues.
(Oatstraw Bath, page XXX.)
• Be an outrageously sexy old lady
Dosage: Infusion of dried herb, 1- 4 cups/250-1000 ml,
daily.
CAUTIONS: None.
... will be continued next month.
excerpt from New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way
by Susun S. Weed
pp. 237-243
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