Susun S. Weed is een visionair op het gebied van vrouwelijke wijsheid en kruidengeneeskunde, toegewijd aan eco-kruidengeneeskunde en vrouwengezondheid. Haar werk benadrukt de diepe verbinding tussen natuur en genezing, en stelt vrouwen in staat de regie te nemen over hun fysieke en spirituele welzijn. Met een diepgaand begrip van planten en hun medicinale eigenschappen, biedt ze een holistische benadering van welzijn die toegankelijk is en traditionele kennis eert. Haar geschriften en leringen inspireren lezers om de kracht van de natuurlijke wereld te ontdekken en hun eigen paden naar genezing en vitaliteit te vinden.
It's all there: Seven Medicines to help you be abundantly well, make sense of medicine, and get the health care you need and deserve. Chapter Six, on Pharmaceutical Medicine, includes a dozen two-page spreads comparing the effects of common modern drugs to herbal remedies. It is illustrated with magical drawings, meticulously indexed, assiduously researched, and rich with recipes, lore, and startling scientific support for the Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution.
Susun Weed(author of best-seller "Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year" ) spent three years talking with more than 10,000 women about their menopause. She discovered that their experiences differ hugely from most published accounts:
Simple, safe remedies for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and newborns.Now in its 24th printing. A confirmed favorite with pregnant women, midwives, childbirth educators, and new parents. Packed with clear, comforting, and superbly helpful information.Beginning with the two months before pregnancy, herbs are enlisted to provide safe, effective birth control, or to help ensure pregnancy, even in the most difficult of situations. A special list of teratogens, including herbs to avoid before pregnancy, is included, as is a section on herbs to improve the father's fertility and reduce the risk of birth defects.Once pregnancy has occurred, herbs are safe and beneficial allies in reducing the distress of pregnancy, including hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, morning sickness, emotional changes, anemia, muscle cramps, bladder infections, and preclampsia. Tasty recipes and clear directions make use easy and fun.Herbs take a starring role in labor and delivery -- whether initiating labor, increasing energy, diminishing pain, or staunching postpartum bleeding -- and in postpartum care of the mother's perineum, breasts, and emotions, and the infants umbilicus, skin, scalp, digestive system, and immune system.Humorous, tender, and detailed, this classic text is supported by illustrations, references, resource lists, glossary, and index.Includes herbs for fertility and birth control. Foreword by Jeannine Parvati Baker.
Susun Weed gibt in diesem umfassenden Hand- und Begleitbuch Ratschläge für eine gesunde Lebensweise und empfiehlt ausgewogene Ernährung, Brustmassagen und immunstärkende Kräuter zur Prävention bzw. als Begleittherapie bei Brustkrebs.
