http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com My friend Elsa always talked to plants. I thought she was crazy. Safely insane, but definitely disassociated from reality. Until the plants laughed at me. Autumn of 1980, returning home from a rare dinner out after a healing intensive at my land in th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1201384_27.html 27th October 2009 THE TRUE STORY OF HOW SHE CAME TO BE, HOW SHE DISAPPEARED, & HOW SHE RETURNED In the beginning, everything began, as it always does, with birth. The Great Mother of All gave birth, and the Earth began to breathe. Again, and again, and again, the Grea... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1130061_28.html 29th September 2009 The dark months are a time of rest and renewal, not a time of high energy. The fairies return to their underground homes at Halloween and return aboveground on May Day. Give in to the slower pace of the winter. Expect less of yourself; enjoy more time in ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1025692_17.html 10th August 2009 “The world is filled with life, my daughter, and some of that life can distress you. Your vagina is filled with life, dearest granddaughter, and some of that life can distress you, too. “When you are too sweet, life can run over you. Stay a litt... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1000791_17.html 27th July 2009 “Herbal remedies for trichomonas are among the least impressive home remedies. None are more than 50 percent effective.” (1) Trich is short for trichomonas: a single-celled, four-tailed, protozoan parasite. About five million new cases of tr... http://www.articlealley.com/article_952619_17.html 27th June 2009 The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and two months following the birth. The childbearing year is a time of change and an opportunity to grow, filled with rapid physical adjustment... http://www.articlealley.com/article_917495_61.html 05th June 2009 "I was bleeding when the news came that he had been killed. I stopped within the hour and I haven't had a period since. I was 38 then; I'm 62 now." STEP 1: COLLECT INFORMATION Menopause is the cessation of menses. In some books, it is nothing... http://www.articlealley.com/article_875749_28.html 01st May 2009 Winter is coming. So are colds and the flu. Here are some tips for preventing these viral illnesses. And for getting well fast if you do get sick. Preventing colds and the flu can be summed up in three words: Wash your hands. The viruses that ca... http://www.articlealley.com/article_843053_17.html 01st April 2009 Deep within you, whether you are aware of it or not, is your primal need for breast. It is part of you; it was born with you. It has been with you for millions of years. When you emerged into the world of air, hunger came with you. And linked to hunger... http://www.articlealley.com/article_811196_28.html 06th March 2009 Sometimes it seems that every magazine, newspaper, radio show, and piece of mail has a headline declaring that every woman’s risk of developing breast cancer is increasing. There is a numbing feeling of inevitability in these pronouncements. More and mo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_769034_17.html 28th January 2009 “How many ways of being are there, sweet friend?” asks Grandmother Growth in her warm way. You sense this is a serious question, and you fear you don’t know the right answer. “Between the yin and the yang, between the dark and the light, bet... http://www.articlealley.com/article_727933_17.html 19th December 2008 FIRST AID FOR BACKACHE Heat - a warm bath, a hot shower, a hydroculator, a hot water bottle, a towel dipped in boiling water - will provide temporary relief for most backaches. Tiger Balm, Olbas, Zheng Gu Shui, Win... http://www.articlealley.com/article_675315_17.html 27th October 2008 Anthrax. Smallpox. Plague. Diseases that can kill. Diseases that are now in the hands of terrorists. What if these diseases were released in your hometown, or the place where you work? What could you do if vaccines and treatments were in short supply or u... http://www.articlealley.com/article_644507_17.html 22nd September 2008 NOCTURIA STEP 1. COLLECT INFORMATION Waking to urinate more than twice a night - nocturia - is considered a medical problem unless you are menopausal, or over 80, when it is normal, if not restful. Menopausal w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_615818_17.html 02nd September 2008 STEP 0. DO NOTHING Oops, that’s the problem. Seriously, though, relaxing deeply can open the valves. If it doesn’t, there may be an obstruction. STEP 1. COLLECT INFORMATION Because the prostate gland encircles the urethra... http://www.articlealley.com/article_593982_17.html 29th July 2008 STEP 0. DO NOTHING As the majority of cases of urge incontinence are idiopathic, that is, they have no known cause, even after extensive testing, spare yourself the health risks of invasive tests. STEP 1. COLLECT INFORMATION <ul... http://www.articlealley.com/article_562265_17.html 25th June 2008 STEP 0. DO NOTHING Do drink enough. But limiting fluids, especially before exercise, can help if you are dealing with stress incontinence. STEP 1. COLLECT INFORMATION Repeated childbearing can weaken pelvic muscles. And some birthing situati... http://www.articlealley.com/article_542480_17.html 20th May 2008 I am the gateway; I am the door. I connect the inside to the outside. I decide which outside comes in. I control the flux and the flow. I hold the wise blood, or let it go. I protect the growing babe, or thrust it unformed into a world unsuitable. None... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526947_17.html 01st May 2008 “Stir the heat in your pelvis or it will leak out, dear one,” Grandmother Growth admonishes. “Clench your pelvic floor muscles; then release! Again, and again, and again. Reclaim your power. Speak your anger instead of pissing it away. Stand tall... http://www.articlealley.com/article_522212_17.html 25th April 2008 Menopause, like puberty, is a period of transition and metamorphosis. It consists of three stages: isolation, melt down, and emergence. Each stage calls forth new energies and new perceptions of ourselves. Each stage has different demands, different tasks... http://www.articlealley.com/article_498909_17.html 28th March 2008 I am the holding tank. I am the lowest point. It all flows down to me. The blood goes round and round, and the liver decides what stays and what goes. What goes, goes to the kidneys. And when the kidneys are done with what goes round, it goes down to m... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497908_17.html 27th March 2008 The symbol of the Wise Woman tradition is a spiral. A spiral is a cycle as it moves through time. A spiral is movement around and beyond a circle, always returning to itself, but never at exactly the same place. Spirals never repeat themselves. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_473018_28.html 12th February 2008 The Wise Woman tradition is invisible. Without healers, without diseases, without cures, without certificates, without guarantees, it exists. It has no rules, no right answers, no promise of life eternal. The Wise Woman tradition is a spiral of uniqueness... http://www.articlealley.com/article_473017_28.html 12th February 2008 Living generously is a theme that plays loudly in many women's lives. As women, our social conditioning - and often the impulse of our hearts - is to live generously by giving generously. And we give the one thing we have assured access to: ourselves. Gen... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463084_28.html 28th January 2008 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well-being. Our neighbors around the world continue to use local plants for healing and heal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_193544_17.html 26th July 2007 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use - plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It's easy. You can do it too. In your first... http://www.articlealley.com/article_191691_17.html 25th July 2007 Can plant hormones help women in menopause? Do they affect breast cancer? Phytoestrogens are weak hormones found in many plants. They are currently being promoted, sometimes in highly refined forms, for relief of the symptoms of menopause. Are they saf... http://www.articlealley.com/article_178480_17.html 29th June 2007 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well-being. Our neighbors around the world continue to use local plants for healing and heal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_178447_17.html 29th June 2007 It’s big news when a favored medical treatment – HRT for menopausal women – is found to be harmful. But it’s no news to readers of Susun Weed. She’s been blowing the whistle on both scientific and alternative treatments of menopause for nearly t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_165564_17.html 29th May 2007 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well-being. Our neighbors around the world continue to use local plants for healing and heal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_160471_17.html 16th May 2007 In the beginning, according to the Wise Woman tradition, everything began, as everything does, at birth. The Great Mother of All gave birth and the earth appeared out of the void. Then the Great Mother of All gave birth again, and again, and again, and pe... http://www.articlealley.com/article_150332_28.html 21st April 2007 Who is Baba Yaga? She is the Goddess, she is the Witch, she is the Wise Woman, she is the Crone, she is aged Artemis. Baba is Grandmother. In Tibet, fierce demons are Yagas. So she is the Grandmother Demon, Grandmother Dragon, the fearsome, the fierce... http://www.articlealley.com/article_150296_28.html 21st April 2007 Almost every woman has, at one time or another, felt so fatigued she wanted to cry. But for some women, and for a variety of reasons - including menopause, caring for a new-born, working odd hours, chronic anxiety, and poverty, to name only a few - fatigu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_134926_17.html 05th March 2007 Herbal medicine is people’s medicine. Herbal medicine is the primary medicine of most people on this planet, right now. It’s not something old and dusty. It’s not a bunch of doctors and chemists figuring out how to use herbs like drugs. Herbal medic... http://www.articlealley.com/article_134790_17.html 05th March 2007 NOURISHING, TONIC, AND ANTI-INFECTIVE HERBS Safe Use of Herbs After a Cesarean: Water-based infusions provide optimum benefit and greatest safety Capsules are most likely to cause ill-effects and odd react... http://www.articlealley.com/article_121853_17.html 20th January 2007 WHAT ARE THE SIX STEPS OF HEALING? These are remedies you can use for your problem in order from safest to most dangerous: Step 0 is the safest; Step 6 the most dangerous. Use Steps 0, 1, 2 and 3 as preventive medicine. Prevention is an import... http://www.articlealley.com/article_115298_17.html 01st January 2007 Menopause is a time of enormous change. Wise women of all times have found simple life-style changes can make their Change much easier. For optimum health during and after menopause, follow these simple steps: Exercise a different way every day: take ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_104581_17.html 17th November 2006 The Wise Woman Tradition is the oldest known healing tradition on our planet. It offers a unique view of health that is woman-centered and deeply empowering to women. This is in stark contrast to orthodox - and most alternative - healing traditions, which... http://www.articlealley.com/article_91031_24.html 02nd October 2006 Boost Your Immunity and Prevent Cancer With Dandelion, Honeysuckle, Clover and Other Ordinary Weeds Did you know that many of those unglamorous "weeds" that you've been poisoning or pulling out of your garden and lawn are some of the world's mos... http://www.articlealley.com/article_67700_23.html 28th June 2006 Winter time is depression time for many women. Perhaps it is harder to look at the bright side when days are short, perhaps the holidays and family demands take their toll on us. Of course, depression can also be triggered by lack of thyroid hormone and b... http://www.articlealley.com/article_58299_23.html 29th May 2006 "It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved," counsels Grandmother Growth. "You must open to your very marrow for this transformation. No cell is to remain untouched. You are to open more than you ever dreamed you could open, more than you... http://www.articlealley.com/article_48456_17.html 30th April 2006 Artemis - Goddess of the herbalist - gives her name to a genus of marvelously aromatic, safely psychedelic, highly medicinal, dazzlingly decorative, and more-or-less edible plants in the Asteraceae family. I love Artemis, and I love her plants. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_38910_17.html 28th March 2006 Wise women believe that most of the problems of pregnancy can be prevented by attention to nutrition. Morning sickness and mood swings are connected to low blood sugar; backaches and severe labor pains often result from insufficient calcium; varicose vein... http://www.articlealley.com/article_38908_61.html 28th March 2006 Susun Weed offers a number of approaches women can use to calm jangly nerves, achieve greater overall calm, and cope on-the-spot with stressful situations. For instant calm, Weed suggests one or more of the following simple calming exercises, herbal a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35110_17.html 12th March 2006 "If you let that fiery wise blood just sit there in your belly, great granddaughter," admonishes Grandmother Growth, "you'll get the urge to quench that heat. You'll get a tickle, a twinge, an urgent call. But you won't have the moisture you need. It's... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35109_17.html 12th March 2006 If having enough energy to earn your daily bread and to get all your chores done is a struggle for you. If you go to bed tired, but wake up even more tired. If you can't get up and go without coffee, or can't slow down and relax without alcohol. If your f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35108_17.html 12th March 2006 Which is better: cooked food or raw? Taking nothing for granted or gospel, I set out to find out for myself the answer to this important question. First, I asked, what is meant by "raw food" and what is meant by "cooked food?" One cannot simply say tha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35107_17.html 12th March 2006 Wise Woman herbal and home remedies are simple, safe ways to help yourself when you have a diagnosis of uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids are solid muscle tissue growths in the uterus. They are also called fibroid tumors, myomas, or leiomyomas. Fibroi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_21433_17.html 30th December 2005 Rather than focusing on breast cancer, we choose to concentrate on keeping our breasts healthy through wise lifestyle and dietary choices. The following tips may amaze you, since the actions and foods they suggest run counter to many alternative views ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_17219_17.html 26th November 2005 "Oh, how densely packed your head is, my sweet," sighs Grandmother Growth. "I'm afraid there's no room for new growth. If you could empty your mind, leave off worrying and planning for a while, and give in to the chaos and its random pleasures, just fo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13120_17.html 23rd October 2005