Determining Interchangeable Species
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Oftentimes with medicinal plants, there will be other species in a particular genus that can be used in the exact same way as the standardly accepted species that we typically use in herbal medicine.
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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, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, |
| 0:29.6 | and welcome to this week's episode here of the Evolutionary Herbalism blog. |
| 0:35.6 | And in this week's video, I'm going to be talking a bit about |
| 0:41.2 | herbal adjuncts. You know, one of the things I get a question about a lot is, you know, |
| 0:49.8 | different types of species or subspecies or varieties of medicinal plants and whether they're |
| 0:57.6 | interchangeable with the primary species that we typically use in Western herbalism. |
| 1:04.7 | You know, when you look up an herb in certain herb books and things like that, it's really |
| 1:09.7 | common to see, you know, the main species of a plant that's used. |
| 1:14.6 | And a lot of times we think that that's the only species that we can use. |
| 1:20.6 | But oftentimes with medicinal plants that are in their particular genus. |
| 1:28.3 | There will be other species that can be used in the exact same way as the |
| 1:35.3 | standardly accepted species that we typically use in herbal medicine. |
| 1:40.3 | So how can you tell that, right? |
| 1:42.3 | How can you tell if maybe your local species of a particular |
| 1:46.7 | plant can be used in the same way as the primary one used? And I think there's a number of |
| 1:54.7 | ways that we can go about approaching this. And I think one of the best ways is actually not being too reliant on looking |
| 2:03.2 | it up in a book, but actually learning how to use your senses and specifically organoleptic |
| 2:10.7 | analysis in order to determine whether that species has medicinal properties or not. So that's what I'm going to be |
| 2:18.8 | talking about in this week's episode, and I hope you enjoy it. Question number eight from Tracy. |
| 2:26.7 | Can you use any kind of passion flower? I have one growing here in Portland, non-fruit bearing, |
| 2:32.6 | but it has the same beautiful flowers. |
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