Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & The Pocket Midwife Susan Fekety

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Susan Fekety. Susan Fekety, RN, MSN, CNM is a Yale-educated nurse-midwife, now retired after 30 years of practice. In the Portland, Maine area since 1995, she wrote “The Pocket Midwife: Affirmations and Thoughts for Healthy Pregnancy and Normal Birthing” in 2003, which has been enthusiastically welcomed by women and birth professionals alike.  Susan holds a deep confidence in the power of every woman’s body/spirit to signal its wishes, desires, and dreams. www.pocketmidwife.com

this weeks Q&A includes:

• alcohol is very extractive of poisons- water is extractive of nutrients and volatiles..

• carrying a dead fetus and wanting to miscarry- you do not need to do anything. There is nothing wrong with you and you can conceive again...

• you do not need a practitioner to help you through menopause- drink your nourishing herbal infusions...

• during menopause sort through the holdings of a lifetime and decide what to bring with you for the next 50 years...

• why are you drinking water? 2 quarts of water a day- 1 from food- the other from infusion...

• motherwort rebuilds the capillary bed around the heart, keeping heart in perfect shape...

• urinary tract infection- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi...

• scarring and discutient herbal oils..

• vaginal itch- acidophilus capsules inserted up to cervix and red clover infusion and oatstraw infusion...