Chamomile: Beyond the Teabag

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Chamomile is a familiar plant with an unmistakable scent and flavor. It is one of the most popularly used and loved herbs, and most folks have a box of it sitting in their cupboard.

Although sipping on some Chamomile tea at the end of the day is nice, its medicinal properties are complex, and there are different preparations you can make with it. By taking a deeper look into this plant, you can learn about the specific indications and unique properties that make this herb indispensable to the Western Materia Medica.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

What Chamomile tastes like and how this corresponds to its actions in the body
Its unique influences on the nervous and digestive systems and the juncture between the two
The emotional indications of Chamomile
Its associations with the planet Mercury and Venus
How to make different herbal preparations with Chamomile

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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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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.
0:25.1	Hey, what's up, everyone?
0:26.4	Saja here.
0:27.4	And, you know, lately I've been thinking a lot about the beginner plants.
0:31.8	You know, those remedies that we first start learning about when we're beginning our plant
0:36.5	path and how sometimes it can be really
0:39.9	easy to overlook those remedies when we move further along our herbal journey, you know, thinking about
0:46.3	those kind of basic beginner remedies like calendula or yarrow or chickweed, those plants that
0:53.6	are seen to be as, you know, pretty mild and,
0:56.8	you know, but really powerful and effective at the same time.
1:00.7	But how, you know, it can be really easy in this modern day and age to get really excited about,
1:06.7	you know, the new fancy exotic herb or the new super herb and, you know, kind of start to
1:13.3	overlook those basic plants that we first start learning about on our herbal journey. So today
1:20.4	I wanted to talk about a plant that is, I think, a really critically important remedy for us to understand.
1:28.3	And it's one of those plants that's oftentimes kind of pigeonholed as, you know, a really mild, gentle remedy.
1:36.3	It's, you know, basically a plant that sometimes I think people can really easily overlook.
1:42.3	But this is a very versatile, very potent,
1:44.8	very powerful remedy that I think every herbalist needs to know how to use, have available in
1:49.6	their dispensary. So today we're going to talk about camomile beyond the tea bag.
1:54.8	All right, so let's talk about some of the core properties of camomile. So first off, the taste of the plant is always
2:03.1	where I like to start. And with camomile, we have a really nice, complex flavor profile with
2:09.1	this herb. And, you know, one of the things about camomile is a lot of people are like, oh,
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