Benefits of Cleavers: The Inner Water Purifier

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes big medicine comes in the form of a small plant. Cleavers is one of those plants; humble and unassuming, yet a potent and highly useful remedy. It is like a water purifier for your body. The benefits of Cleavers are numerous: it cleanses the lymphatics, flushes the kidneys, and offers pain relief for urinary tract infections.

Cleavers teaches us that it is not always best to use the strongest remedies. Sometimes, it's the gentle ones that possess a subtle yet profound ability to restore balance and promote true healing from within.

In today's plant profile, you'll discover:

How Cleavers' salty taste and juicy leaves translate into effects on the water pathways in the body
Why you need this herb if you get chronic urinary tract infections
Cleavers' intrinsic connection with Venus, Pisces, and the Water Element, and how this impacts your relationships and urinary system health
This herb's dual moistening and drying energetics
How to prepare a tincture and fresh juice using springtime Cleavers

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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	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.
0:23.6	Big medicine in a little plant.
0:27.6	You know, I think it can be easy for us as herbalists to sometimes think the most powerful medicines
0:32.6	are those that, you know, have incredible adaptogenic properties or rejuvenate our immune system
0:39.2	or the most potent antibiotic herbs. But, you know, to me, I feel like sometimes we can have
0:45.6	really big medicine in a really humble plant. And that's why I've really grown to love cleavers
0:51.6	over the years. And, you know, this is a remedy I've shot a few videos on in the past
0:55.8	But it's just a plant that I keep going to I keep working with it grows all around me here in the Pacific Northwest
1:02.0	And it's a plant that I've used a lot and just seen profound healing effects for a lot of people through this plant
1:09.8	So wanted to feature cleavers again here
1:12.6	on the plant path and do it kind of in our new format for doing some of the plant profiles here
1:20.3	on the blog. And we've got a really nice patch back here at our lower barn. So I'm going to head on
1:26.8	over to the lower barn and check out
1:28.8	Cleavers. All right, everyone. So here we are in this beautiful, lush little woodland environment
1:36.2	that we have here on the land, which is such a perfect example of the habitat where Clevers
1:43.2	really loves to reside here.
1:46.0	This plant commonly is found in really kind of moist, shady areas of the forest.
1:52.7	And I find that it always really loves to grow and just like there's a lushness to the areas
1:58.1	where this plant grows.
1:59.4	And I think a lushness to the environment that this plant creates where it grows,
2:04.8	that just feels to me kind of like really magical and special.
2:08.9	So one of the interesting things about cleavers is that another term,
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