7 Stages of Health and Disease (Including Constitutional Imbalance)

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Explore health and disease, not as fixed states but as a dynamic spectrum.

Learn how herbal medicine can uniquely support people at every stage of this journey by matching the strength of the remedy to the severity of the imbalance, rather than waiting for diagnosable disease to set in.

Here's what you'll learn:

Why health and disease are better understood as a continuum, rather than a binary
The concept of "homeodynamis" and why balance is always in motion
7 key stages of health: the enlightened state, peak health, constitutional imbalance, acute sickness or injury, generalized illness, disease, and death
How early imbalances show up before diagnosable disease
Why herbal medicine excels in the "in between" stages that conventional medicine often overlooks
How to match herb strength, dosage, and strategy to each stage of imbalance
When mild nutritive herbs are appropriate, and when stronger remedies are required
Why lifestyle and diet must come before herbs in many cases
How constitutional patterns shape both resilience and vulnerability

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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH

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The Plant Path is a window into the world of herbal medicine. With perspectives gleaned from traditional Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Alchemy, Medical Astrology, and traditional cultures from around the world, The Plant Path provides unique insights, skills and strategies for the practice of true holistic herbalism. From clinical to spiritual perspectives, we don't just focus on what herbs are "good for," but rather who they are as intelligent beings, and how we can work with them to heal us physically and consciously evolve.

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ABOUT SAJAH

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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.

His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is only achieved through understanding and working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves.

He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.

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0:00.0	Hey there, everybody and welcome back to the plant path.
0:13.3	I'm your host, Sagea Popham.
0:14.9	Thank you very much for taking the time out of your day to join me here.
0:18.8	And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about
0:23.6	constitutional imbalance disease and all the different points in between.
0:32.7	This is something that I've been thinking about a lot over the last year or so. And I think it's
0:42.0	something that's that's worth considering and worth talking about and worth observing the various
0:50.3	ways in which we can consider using plants to help people.
0:57.8	You know, I think one of the potencies of herbal medicine is that we can work with them,
1:06.9	not just to treat disease or sickness or various pathological patterns, but we can work with
1:17.5	them also to improve the vitality of the system, to strengthen the body, to revitalize the
1:26.5	organ systems, to prevent really the onset of more
1:31.1	serious disease. And it's good to think about, in my opinion, how we define health and
1:41.2	wellness and how we define disease.
1:47.2	And what are the stages that we go through?
1:50.9	What is the progression?
1:53.1	Because it's not like we're just, you know,
1:55.5	doot-de-lou going along in our daily life.
1:58.6	And everything is just humming along perfectly perfectly and then all of a sudden,
2:04.7	you know, you have a chronic disease out of nowhere, right?
2:08.6	Typically, there is a, there's, there are stages, there's a progression, there's a disease
2:15.3	progression.
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