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Medicine Stories

Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham

Medicine Stories

Amber Magnolia Hill

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

These times call for potent healers. If you're feeling the call of the plants, this episode is for you.

IN THE INTRO:

  • There is no right way to be an herbalist
  • Guidance for navigating your unique plant path

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • The soul's need to connect with nature
  • The most common mistake that newcomers to the plant path are likely to make
  • Why an herb will help one person but not another
  • The vital ecology of the human being
  • Seeing beyond symptoms (and the insufficient approach of merely managing them) to the root cause of illness
  • An overview of the four phases of herbalism: indigenous/folk, vitalist/energetic, molecular/biomedical, evolutionary/integrative
  • "I'm woo to the max, but I'm also scientific to the max"
  • Healing is open-ended and endless, and to know healing is to know life itself
  • The (in)significance of the past when trying to heal forward
  • The herbalist is first and foremost and forever a student of nature
  • Plants are the living, healing intelligence of the earth
  • The transference of healing intelligence from nature into the plant and then from the plant into the person
  • We can understand health and disease simply by understanding nature
  • Narrowing down possible herbal remedies to find the right remedy for the right person- what is the ecosystem behind the symptom?
  • Why some people get overwhelmed when they start walking the plant path
  • Perceiving with the heart v memorizing information (bodily understanding is superior to intellectual knowledge)
  • My favorite personal health reference library
  • Herbal medicine should be accessible to anyone and everyone
  • Helping others using medicinal plants, and crafting the most potent herbal remedies

IN THE OUTRO:

  • My Top 5 Reasons to Be an Herbalist

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The herbalist is first and foremost and forever a student of nature.

0:04.0

There is no right way to be an herbalist.

0:10.0

There is no wrong way to be an herbalist.

0:13.0

Each person's plant path is unique.

0:16.0

No one practices herbalism the way another person does.

0:19.0

From the home herbalist to the clinical practitioner

0:22.0

to everything in between, plant medicine is truly the people's medicine.

0:28.0

Urbanism is your ancestral birthright.

0:30.0

It is only in the last few generations that technocratic medicine and grocery stores have replaced people's need to know and work with the green-blooded beans that have been in symbiotic relationship with humans since the dawn of time.

0:44.6

That you are here today is proof of your ancestors' plant knowledge and medicine ways.

0:50.0

They were able to keep themselves and their children alive long enough generation

0:54.1

after generation to get to you today. If you're feeling called to work with

0:59.3

plants that's because your bones remember this. I've given this a lot of thought in my 15 years of herbal

1:06.7

wanderings. I've also thought a lot about the myriad and profound ways that walking the plant path has bettered my life.

1:15.0

And out of that thought process, I've recorded a special

1:20.0

outro for this episode about the main five ways that herbalism has bettered my life.

1:27.8

So my top five reasons to be an herbalist.

1:30.8

So be sure to stick around after the interview for that short and fun list.

1:37.0

I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 62 of Medicine Stories where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth.

1:48.0

Today I'm sharing my second interview with Sage of Popum, the first one came out years ago, episode 17.

1:56.2

Saja shares my life mission of welcoming people onto the plant path.

2:03.0

And he has helped thousands of people find their unique place

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