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
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),
New
Menopausal
Years
the
Wise
Woman
Way
(1992
and
revised
in
2002),
and
Breast
Cancer?
Breast
Health!
The
Wise
Woman
Way
(1996).
In
addition
to
her
writing,
Ms
Weed
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.
Written
permission
from
original
author
is
needed
to
reprint.
Articles
within
are
used
w/permission,
or
are
originals.
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do
have
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Unknown?
If
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know
of
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original
author,
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one
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