Talking with Plants
Medicine Wheel of Plant Uses
Join Susun Weed as she teaches about the Medicine Wheel of Plant Uses. Learn about the Doctrine of Signatures vs. functional engineering. Identify, harvest, prepare and use great herbal remedies.
Your Instructor
Susun Weed is loved and honored for her work in women’s health and herbal medicine. She is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, offering simple, safe alternative, complementary medicines. She directs the working of the Wise Woman Center, is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, and has been inducted as a Peace Elder. Susun uses her encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health in her service of all women.
Ms. Weed is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, with six books in print (Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year; Healing Wise; New Menopausal Years, the Wise Woman Way; Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way, Down There Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way, and Abundantly Well). Find her books at www.wisewomanbookshop.com or at your favorite bookseller...Susun offers mentorship opportunities at www.wisewomanmentor.com and hosts a weekly radio show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed where you can call in and ask her health questions.
Learn more at www.susunweed.com/SusunWeed.htm
Course Curriculum
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StartWhat to Expect in This Course (6:31)
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StartOut in the Woods (0:11)
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StartJustine's Little Helper! (0:41)
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StartSacred Corn Mother chant (3:27)
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StartSusun's Teaching Story (6:39)
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StartEvery Breath is a Give-Away Dance (2:10)
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StartThe Wise Woman Center (6:00)
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StartSusun Listens to the Plants (2:50)
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StartPoisonous Plants (4:36)
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StartPoisonous Plants, cont. (2:34)
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StartWomen's Work (1:40)
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StartPlant Divas & Fairy Area (6:52)
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StartWalk through Fairy Area cont. (1:57)
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StartIdentifying Poisonous Plants & Discovering Skullcap Growing (4:14)
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StartPlants Don't Grow Where People Walk (2:28)
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StartBarefoot Weed Walk Introducing the Five Contrasts (3:14)
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StartDoes it grow near people or far away? (5:21)
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StartIs there a lot or a little of it? (5:13)
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StartIs it in the sun or the shade? Wet or dry? Poor soil or rich soil? (5:36)
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StartYin & Yang Within the Five Contrasts (6:40)
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StartAlkaloids and Glycocides (6:36)
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StartRich Soil or Poor Soil? (4:47)
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StartFive Contrasts Summary (2:27)
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StartGathering Wild Salad (5:10)
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StartGathering Wild Salad, cont. (1:08)
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StartMoving on to Medicine Wheel (2:14)
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StartIntroducing the Medicine Wheel (5:15)
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StartMedicine Wheel of the Gifts of the Animals (4:57)
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StartMedicine Wheel of the Gifts of the Ocean (5:04)
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StartMedicine Wheel of the Fungi (5:35)
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StartMedicine Wheel of the Fungi, cont. (2:58)
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StartMedicine Wheel of Fungi, cont. (7:45)
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StartMedicine Wheel of Fats and Oils (5:35)
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StartMedicine Wheel of Plant Uses - Wrapping Up Discussion (4:14)