Diagnostic Differentials of Hot and Cold
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
One of the primary elements of understanding the energetics or constitution of a person is temperature—whether someone runs really hot or runs really cold. Sometimes it can be a little confusing in terms of how you actually assess that. What are the core determining factors that you're looking at in a person to be able to tell whether they're hot or cold, either constitutionally or in their current symptomatic picture? This week we're going to cover this dynamic that's important to understand with every person that you work with.
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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. Sajah's approach honors and acknowledges the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants for a holistic model that uses the whole herb to heal the whole person. 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. |
| 0:24.3 | Hey, what's up everybody? Sagea here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:29.1 | And, you know, one of the things that I talk a lot about on this channel is, you know, |
| 0:34.3 | the importance of energetics and constitutions in clinical herbalism. |
| 0:40.4 | This is one of the attributes of traditional systems of medicine all across the world |
| 0:45.4 | that we see really at their root in their way of understanding the uniqueness of a person |
| 0:52.0 | and the specific properties of medicinal plants. |
| 0:56.8 | And that's kind of one of the attributes in, I guess, our more modern scientific era, so to speak, |
| 1:04.4 | that oftentimes gets overlooked, right? |
| 1:06.7 | We overlook the constitution of a person and kind of tunnel in on the name of the disease, |
| 1:12.4 | or we forget the energetics of an herb and tunnel in on what kinds of diseases they're used for, |
| 1:19.8 | or symptoms they're used for, or what kind of chemistry they have in them. |
| 1:25.6 | But really, this integration of constitutions and energetics, I believe, |
| 1:30.3 | is critically important for the modern herbalists to understand and also integrate into our |
| 1:38.6 | scientific understanding of both people and plants. And so in this week's post, I answered a question from a student regarding some of the |
| 1:48.4 | differentials between hot and cold. |
| 1:52.6 | You know, this is one of our primary elements of understanding the energetics or constitution |
| 1:59.6 | of a person is temperature, right? Whether someone |
| 2:02.1 | runs really hot or runs really cold. But sometimes it can be a little confusing for people |
| 2:07.4 | in terms of like how do you actually assess that? Like what are the core determining factors |
| 2:14.2 | that you're looking at in a person to be able to tell whether they're hot or cold, |
| 2:20.6 | either constitutionally or in their current symptomatic picture. So that's what I cover in this |
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