Susun Weed, green witch and wise woman, is an extraordinary teacher with a
joyous spirit, a powerful presence, and an encyclopedic knowledge of herbs
and health. She is the voice of the Wise Woman Way, where common weeds,
simple ceremony, and compassionate listening support and nourish
health/wholeness/holiness.
Susun has opened hearts to the magic and medicine
of the green nations for three decades. Her four herbal medicine books
focus on women's health topics including menopause, childbearing, and
breast health.
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun has garnered
an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings,
and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical
approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopaedic knowledge of
herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic
lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.
One of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural
approaches to women's health, her four best-selling books are recommended
by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished
by millions of women around the world.
Susun 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 29th printing) - in 1985 and published it as the first title
of Ash Tree Publishing in 1986.
It was followed by Healing Wise (1989), Menopausal Years the Wise Woman
Way (1992), and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (1996).
In addition to her writing, Susun 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.
Susun is a staff writer for the Health & Wellness Channel.
