Blue Vervain: The Burned-Out and Overworked Remedy

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Blue Vervain is one of the most effective relaxant remedies in the Western Materia Medica. You can use Blue Vervain for a full spectrum approach to alleviating tension, whether that be psychological or a stiff neck. This herb acts as the conduit between your nervous and musculoskeletal systems, so you feel a sense of relief not only in the mind but in the body as well.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

The significance of the bitter and acrid tastes and their effects on the body and nervous system
Blue Vervain's unique effects on the nervous, musculoskeletal, and female anatomical reproductive systems as well as the febrile mechanism, liver, and neck
The emotional and psychological indications for Blue Vervain
Blue Vervain's correspondence to Venus, "the great relaxant"
How to prepare a palatable medicine with this bitter herb
A formula using Blue Vervain for stress, burnout, and overwhelm

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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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ABOUT WHITNEY

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Whitney Popham is an herbal practitioner and the co-founder of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unity. Her calling to plant medicine began from a deep passion for activism and a vision for creating healing and positive change in the world. She has devoted her life to that vision by being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and bring more healing and beauty into the world.

Through her own health challenges and struggles, she experienced the profound healing gifts of plant medicines and then committed her life to helping others reach vibrant levels of health. She specializes in digestive health in her clinical practice through working with herbal medicine, nutrition and lifestyle coaching. Her true gift is in listening to the plants through intuition and vision, which she uses to help her clients with healing on the emotional, psychological, spiritual, as well as physical levels of health.

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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	Hey there everybody, Saja here and welcome to another issue of the blog.
0:29.6	And in today's video, I'm going to be talking about a remedy that I have been using for a really long time in my herbal practice,
0:36.6	blue vervein.
0:38.3	So this plant right here is Verbena Hustada, and this is a plant of great traditional usage in European herbal medicine.
0:50.3	It was actually considered one of the most sacred plants to the druids and for good reason
0:58.2	because this is a plant with some very special properties some very unique psychospiritual
1:04.2	indications that we'll talk about a little bit later on in the post here so so let's just go
1:10.3	through some of the core properties of this plant
1:12.9	and how you would translate that into using it medicinally.
1:16.0	So starting things off talking about the taste of blue vervein.
1:21.1	So this is a really bitter plant.
1:24.4	I consider this remedy to be one of the more bitter remedies that I've come across.
1:32.3	It's quite potent. And what we see with that bitter property is that it's so bitter that it
1:40.1	actually sends a shiver down the spine. And that's a really interesting indication of the
1:46.4	general property of bitter plants because that bitter flavor, as I've said in other posts,
1:54.7	it brings the vital force down, right? So bitters have a downward bearing action. and that translates to a variety of different properties.
2:03.6	Oftentimes it's draining fluids, secretions down and out. But what we see with Blue Vervein is that it's really kind of bringing the energy down,
2:13.6	which we'll talk about in a little bit more detail on how the bitter taste relates to that.
2:19.3	So it's really, really bitter. We might consider it a nauseant bitter. If you take it in large enough doses, it will kind of upset the stomach.
2:26.3	It's not toxic in any way, it's just so bitter that it can cause a little bit of gastric upset.
2:33.3	And the other taste associated with this plant is acrid.
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