Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69349 in Books
• Published on: 1990-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

Synopsis
Superb herbal in the feminine-intuitive mode. Complete instructions for using common plants for food, beauty, medicine, and longevity. Seven herbs - burdock, chickweed, dandelion, nettle, oatstraw, seaweed and violet - are explored in depth.

Customer Reviews

wonderful, wise and a little bit weird
This is one of those books that I would not be without.
Yes it is limited in the amount of herbs that Susun talks about but the the choice of herbs cover a lot of womens basic nutritional and medicinal herbal needs and oh boy! the depth of research and info is second to none.
It took me a while to get used to the chapters dealing with the "voices" of the herbs but I'm glad I persevered because there is valuable knowledge to be gleaned from them.
What can I say except it was a good read, I learned a lot and I bought another of Susun Weeds books on the strength of this one.
Read it then go for a walk and look down. Weeds will never be the same.

Healing Wise: The Wise Woman Herbal
Wise Woman Herbal: Healing Wise looks at health and healing from a completely different perspective than any other resource I've ever consulted. Instead of looking at illness as something needing medication (as in western scientific medicine) or as the result of some sort of bodily imbalance (as in traditional eastern medicine), this book looks at illness as an opportunity.

At first, I have to admit that this concept sounded really strange to me. What sort of opportunity is suffering from Chronic Fatigue or having to deal with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis? However, as I continued through the thorough and easy to understand explanations of the wise woman tradition, I began to understand more about the principles behind optimum nourishment.

Basically, this concept requires that we learn to take care of, accept, learn from and love ourselves at every point in our life process. To do so, brings about change and further opportunities to nourish our being. Thus, if we have an illness in the traditional sense, then we need to take the opportunity to learn about ourselves and fully nurture our being before we can ever hope to release the seemingly negatives aspects of the situation.

Wise Woman Herbal: Healing Wise has me intrigued with the wise woman tradition. I find the concept of a spiral healing pattern (as opposed to the linear pattern of western medicine and the circular pattern of traditional eastern medicine) fascinating. I also like that this book gave me a distinctly different way to think about my health. I am extremely eager to learn more about this tradition.

A must for anyone seeking herbal information
This wonderful book introduced me to specific plants that up to now I had considered weeds. The way in which the love and respect for these plants is given by Susun Weed makes the reader regard them in a positive light. The comparisons between the different types of healing methods are informative. Also ,as a woman , I found the presentation of the Wise Woman's Way touching a basic belief in myself . I would ,and have , referred other women to this book and it holds a very treasured spot in my personal collection.