Agrimony: The Tense but Relaxed Remedy

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Agrimony is the herb of paradox. On the one hand, it's described as a relaxant,and on the other hand, as an astringent. How does it contract and relax a tissue at the same time?! What do you do when you find conflicting information surrounding the herb you're studying?

Although these two aspects of Agrimony may seem contradictory at first, there's a way that you can study the herb that connects them to form a larger whole. By learning how to study herbs in this way, you gain the skillset to understand complex plants on a deeper level that unites their disparate parts to form a whole.

In today's episode, you'll discover:

Agrimony's paradoxical nature and how to understand its relaxant and astringent properties
How Agrimony supports nerve innervation for improved digestion and urinary tract health.
Ways that Agrimony flower essence helps you embrace your true emotions and let go of the mask
Agrimony's connection to planet Mercury and how it lowers tension
How Agrimony aligns with the Earth Element because of its astringency and balances your inner Earth

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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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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	Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:25.1	You ever interested in an herb and so you pull out all your books and you start researching
0:29.3	it and start finding conflicting information such as one book says it's warming, another
0:35.4	book says it's cooling, something says it's a tonic,
0:39.3	something else says it's a relaxant. This happens to me a lot and you know at first it can be a
0:44.1	little bit frustrating and definitely a little bit confusing. I found that there's ways that we
0:48.9	can approach looking at an herb and kind of taking a higher perspective and not necessarily seeing these as
0:56.5	being conflicting pieces of information but rather different pieces of information that
1:02.0	when you put it together helps you to really understand the wholeness of an herb.
1:07.0	And you know this is definitely something that happened to me recently as I was working with and studying agrimony.
1:13.6	And what I found is that these seemingly conflicting pieces of information actually give you really deep insights into how to use that plant effectively.
1:23.6	So let's head on down to the garden and take a look at agrimonia, Eupatoria.
1:28.3	All right, so here I am at our humble little patch of agrimony in kind of what has now become kind of just like a little bit of a wild herb garden.
1:39.3	Everything's just kind of moving around and going to where it likes to go, but this is our little patch of agrimony and I thought we'd come out here.
1:47.0	It's a good time because it's in flower and you get to see these really cool spikes with the yellow flowers growing on there.
1:53.0	But yeah, so the Latin name of agrimony, this is agrimonia, Eupatoria.
1:58.0	This is an old remedy used in European herbalism for a very, very long time and
2:05.6	super useful plant to know about how to use in our modern herbal practice too. And there's
2:11.6	some traditional indications for this plant that I see being very applicable for a lot of
2:16.6	pretty common modern conditions that a lot of
2:19.6	people struggle with, which I'll talk about. So the primary part of the plant used is the leaf.
2:26.3	Some traditions use the root as well. I personally have never worked with the root. I've
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