Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Women of Wisdom Lama Tsultrim Allione
Om episode
Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lama Tsultrim Allione. Lama Tsultrim Allione is founder and resident lama of Tara Mandala, located outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. She traveled to India in her late teens and at the age of twenty-two, was the first western woman to be ordained as a Buddhist nun. After living in the Himalayan region for several years she returned her vows and became the mother of three, while continuing to study and practice Buddhism. She has been awarded the international “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” by a panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners in Bangkok, Thailand. She is author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons and her new book is WISDOM RISING A Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine. www.taramandala.org/about/lama-tsultrim/ this episode Q&A includes: • Frontier Coop, wholesale account: 5 lb bags, 5 herbs, a years worth of herbs • Comfrey dried root: topical/external use, dried root in oil (ointment), sitz, poultice • Herbal Infusions respond like wild food in the body; interpreted, understood and absorbed easily & wholely • We can change a past pain/accident by remembering it differently; instead of hitting stairs, go through the stairs • Chronic pain: look for symbolic causes, not for vulnerabilities to try and get rid of • Our problems are portals to expansion • Migraines: symbolic causes + herbal remedies, including CBD, Skullcap, liver lovers and Solomon Seal • Our 'change agents' look like they make a mess of things, in proportion to our barriers of resistance • Ask someone who you respect (who's marginal in your life) to be your guardian angel