Hi Susun,
I have two questions: I’m almost 39 and have had pretty regular 28-day moon cycles for years, but when i recently started drinking nettle infusions, my period jumped ahead a full 2 weeks early. Then after adding red clover, it jumped ahead again a week early. Could this be an effect from the herbs, and is it a good sign? Also, my period has been reduced from 4 days of steady flow to only 2. Is a short period something to be concerned about if I’m trying to stay fertile?
Karen Joy’s response (apprentice to Susun Weed):
Nettle leaf and red clover blossom infusions are like deeply nourishing foods. They are unlikely to cause such a dramatic effect. I have never heard of this effect before, disruption of the menstrual cycle. I have heard of women entering menopause, with erratic bleeding cycles, returning to more regular cycles again with either of these infusions.
If the jump was once and returned to 28 days I would not be concerned. At 39, it is very possible you are showing signs of the change approaching, even if it has 10 years to go. In this case, for most people, these infusions will only aid you toward maintaining your feritlity and even cycles longer.
We are all unique however, and perhaps you have a unique response. If you feel well otherwise, and suspect nothing else to explore, I would suggest you work with only one infusion for six months, then add the next, to help you isolate which, if either, is having such the dramatic effect.
love and 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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