Susun S. Weed est une pionnière dans le domaine de la sagesse féminine et de l'herboristerie, dédiée à l'écoherboristerie et à la santé des femmes. Son travail met l'accent sur le lien profond entre la nature et la guérison, donnant aux femmes les moyens de prendre en main leur bien-être physique et spirituel. Avec une profonde compréhension des plantes et de leurs propriétés médicinales, elle offre une approche holistique du bien-être qui est accessible et respecte les connaissances traditionnelles. Ses écrits et son enseignement incitent les lecteurs à explorer le pouvoir du monde naturel et à trouver leurs propres voies vers la guérison et la vitalité.
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.
