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New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way, Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90
Susun Weed(author of best-seller Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year) spent three years talking with more than 10,000 women about their menopause. She discovered that their experiences differ hugely from most published accounts:
<ul><li>More than half reported stronger orgasms after menopause. <li>Most post-menopausal women easily increased bo...more
<ul><li>More than half reported stronger orgasms after menopause. <li>Most post-menopausal women easily increased bo...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
November 1st 2001
by Ash Tree Publishing
(first published 1992)
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Shirley recommended this book to me about a year ago. After I got it from the library, I quickly scanned it and found it's layout effective for good reference on how to approach all the different and oh so lovely attributes of peri-menopause. However, I didn't want to put any more ideas into my head/body about other tricks it could be trying out so, I just found Susun's text on thyroids that reinforced what I had already been telling myself and closed the book. That was all I needed to give m...more
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women who want to take an herbal approach to menopause
Shelves:
herbal,
womens-health
An excellent, highly recommended book. I use it already, even though I am not yet experiencing menopause.
Susan Weed's Menopausal Years is by far the best book of its kind!
It is organized in 3 chapters, the years before, during and after menopause; what symptoms women might experience. Each symptom is orderly detailed in seven steps the wise woman can take, from least invasive to most invasive, including 1) collect information, 2) engage the energy, 3) nourish and tonify, 4) stimulate and sedate, 5) use drugs, and 6) break and enter. Susan Weed is brilliant and her books are a tremendously v...more
It is organized in 3 chapters, the years before, during and after menopause; what symptoms women might experience. Each symptom is orderly detailed in seven steps the wise woman can take, from least invasive to most invasive, including 1) collect information, 2) engage the energy, 3) nourish and tonify, 4) stimulate and sedate, 5) use drugs, and 6) break and enter. Susan Weed is brilliant and her books are a tremendously v...more
A couple months ago, I was having a conversation with my mother. I mentioned some of the health issues I was having. She looked at me, leaned over, and then in a hushed voiced said that she hated to break it to me but I was having pre-menopausal symptoms.
How could this be happening to me? I'm not old. I'm not ready to get facial hair, brittle bones, and happily retire with my cats.
It was then that I remembered Susun and her Wise Woman series of books. I have read severa...more
How could this be happening to me? I'm not old. I'm not ready to get facial hair, brittle bones, and happily retire with my cats.
It was then that I remembered Susun and her Wise Woman series of books. I have read severa...more
I think things are changing for me already, and I figured I would start reading up on it before I'm faced with too many symptoms. As always Susun Weed is a treasure trove of knowledge and sage wisdom. I love that this book is like the wise village crone or elder handing down her wisdom to the new crone. I am going to start implementing some of the suggestions into my daily routine now to make my journey to wise woman a bit smoother!
Thank you Susun Weed!
Thank you Susun Weed!
Marvelous book of plant-based health for mid-life women. I've especially benefited from Susun Weed's dried herb infusions and tincture recommendations. I appreciated her thoughts on grieving, the Crone's Year Away, and returning to community. Would have given it a 5-star rating except for the sometimes racist asides and slick belief-system jabs. They didn't make me appreciate anything except clear thinking.
A wealth of herbal suggestions for a variety of symptoms. Very interesting and enlightening...but I feel unqualified to self perscribe quantity, frequency, and duration of herbal supplementation without the guidance of a qualified herbalist. At least now as I seek the assistance of an herbalist I will go into the appointment with some knowledge so that I can self-advocate.
A good antidote to traditional Western guidebooks on menopause. Incorporates story-telling, traditional wisdoms to provide alternative way of looking at menopause. Read this book together with Christine Northrup's menopause book to cultivate a whole different mindset on this time of life.
"Hot flashes literally create enlightenment. I don't mean this in a hippies woo-woo way. Scientifically, if you compare the pulse and EKG and other data of a person meditating in or near a state of nirvana, you will find it is similar to the condition a woman is in during a hot flash.'', says Ms. Susun Weed and I believe her, because difficult as life may seem during this time, the menopausal years are not so unbearable, especially with the right attitude. Each time I think I do not need th...more
It was a helpful book, with lots of different approaches to menopausal problems. If you like to use natural remedies- this book gives much advise.
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I have followed Ms. Weeds writing in regard to herbs for over a decade, and now its time to find the right herbs for this stage of my life.
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Susan Weed is an authority on using herbs and natural resources to address the many physical, mental,emotional,and psychological issues women face as they go through life. I recommend this book to all of my friends.
So far I've learned some amazing tips for dealing w/ menopause. #1: Acceptance! #2: Miso & tamari are natural miracles when dealing with this! #3: Black Cohosh has saved my sanity (and Patrick's).
My favorite book to use during peri-menopause! Susan Weed is an odd woman to read but VERY knowledgable- I have used first the old edition & then this new one for a decade.
Every woman should have this - real recipes for cures - supporting spirit a fav
Reference book. Better than most herb books.
Great book on this expanding years subject.
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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 boo...more
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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 boo...more
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