The
Six Steps of Healing
by Susun S. Weed
Examples
are in parenthesis: (with a few of the modalities
available at each step)
Step 0:
Do Nothing
(sleep, meditate, unplug the clock or the telephone)
Step 1:
Collect Information
(low-tech diagnosis, books, support groups, divination)
Step 2:
Engage the Energy
(prayer, homeopathy, ceremony, affirmations, laughter)
Step 3:
Nourish and Tonify
(herbal infusions and vinegars, hugs, exercise,
food choices, gentle massage, yoga stretches)
Note:
Healing with Steps 4, 5, and 6 always causes some
harm :
Step 4:
Stimulate/Sedate
(hot or cold water, many herbal tinctures, acupuncture)
For every
stimulation/sedation, there is an opposite sedation/stimulation,
sooner or later. Addiction is possible if this step
is overused.
Step 5a:
Use Supplements
(synthesized or concentrated vitamins, minerals,
and food substances such as nutritional yeast, blue-green
algae, bran)
These substances
may do as much harm as good.
Step 5b:
Use Drugs
(chemotherapy, tamoxifen, hormones, high dilution
homeopathics, and potentially toxic herbs)
Step 6:
Break and Enter
(threatening language, surgery, colonics, radiation
therapies, psychoactive drugs, invasive diagnostic
tests such as mammograms and C-T scans)
Side effects,
including death, are inevitable.
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Susun S. Weed is the author of four highly-acclaimed
books on herbs and women's health: Wise Woman Herbal
for the Childbearing Year, Healing Wise, New Menopausal
Years the Wise Woman Way and Breast Cancer? Breast
Health! the Wise Woman Way. Ms. Weed lectures world-wide
on women's health and herbal medicine. From her
home in New York State's Catskill Mountains, she
directs the activities of the Wise Woman Center,
acts as editor-in-chief of Ash Tree Publishing,
personally oversees the work of 400 correspondence
students, and trains herbal and shamanic apprentices.
Susun has lived the simple life for nearly 40 years
as an herbalist, goatkeeper, homesteader, and feminist.
She has been called "a true radical - deeply rooted,"
"a modern pioneer," and "one of the founding mothers
of herbal medicine in the United States†. |