Hi Susun,
Other than a stinging nettles infusion (which I’m currently doing and love!) and avoidance, do you have any other health promoting tips for those with MCS?
Karen Joy’s response:
The primary herbal helper for those with MCS would be stinging nettle. The infusion (one ounce of dried herb brewed in a quart of boiling water for 4-10 hours) strengthens the kidneys, adrenals, and liver and helps the body deal with chemicals. It is wonderful you are drinking these infusions regularly and enjoying them. This enjoyment is testimony of nettles’ alliance with you.
In addition to the nettles, seaweed and burdock root—eaten as vegetables rather than taken in pills—remove heavy metals and radioactive particles from the body and could be of tremendous assistance to you in becoming more tolerant of the modern world.
With MCS, you find and then avoid that which you react to. This is a first, and perhaps temporary, step. With nettle leaf infusions, as well as foods like seaweeds and burdock root, you nourish your deep ability to deal with the things that may have formerly caused reaction. Taking away the stressor allows your body to heal and relax. Giving yourself kindness and patience you can slowly come back to the same stressor without an overreaction that hurts yourself. You need to build this relationship with yourself, of trust and kindness. The trust that you will not put yourself in an uncomfortable situation, and your trust in your strength and ability to handle what may have formerly been uncomfortable.
Green blessings, Karen Joy
(apprentice to Susun Weed)
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Susun S. Weed has no official diplomas of any kind; she left high school in her junior year to pursue studies in mathematics and artificial intelligence at UCLA and she left college in her junior year to pursue life.
Susun began studying herbal medicine in 1965 when she was living in Manhattan while pregnant with her daughter, Justine Adelaide Swede.
She wrote her first book -- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (now in its 30th printing) -- in 1985 and published it as the first title of Ash Tree Publishing in 1986.
It was followed by Healing Wise (1989), New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (1992 and revised in 2002), Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (1996), Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way (2011), Abundantly Well - Seven Medicines (2019).
In addition to her writing, Ms Weed trains apprentices, oversees the work of more than 300 correspondence course students, coordinates the activities of the Wise Woman Center, and is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and a Peace Elder.
Susun Weed is a contributor to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, peer- reviewed journals, and popular magazines, including a regular column in Sagewoman.
Her worldwide teaching schedule encompasses herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, psychology of healing, ecoherbalism, nutrition, and women's health issues and her venues include medical schools, hospital wellness centers, breast cancer centers, midwifery schools, naturopathic colleges, and shamanic training centers, as well as many conferences.
Susun appears on many television and radio shows, including National Public Radio and NBC News.
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