Eating for Your Constitution
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As Ayurveda has become popular, interest in eating according to your constitutional type has grown. Over the last few years we've seen this dynamic of eating and tailoring your diet to specifically suit your unique dosha.
And while I think there are some great aspects to that, I also think there are a few risks in terms of how we approach food, how we approach eating, the state of our mind, how we think about our food, and how sometimes we can turn food into a stressor.
A few topics discussed in this episode are:
- The Origins of the Ayurvedic Diet
- Qualities of the Doshas
- Enjoying Our Food
- Listen to Your Body and the Seasons
- A Real-Food Diet
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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.
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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. |
| 0:27.6 | And in this week's episode, I'm going to be talking a little bit about diet. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, I think every herbalist should have, at the very least, a rudimentary knowledge of diet and food, |
| 0:44.4 | and that that's just an area of working with people that is incorporated into their practice. |
| 0:51.4 | I think the food conversation is a big conversation. There's a lot of dynamics to it. |
| 0:57.9 | There's a lot of ways foods can be very amazing and healthy and restorative and medicine, right? |
| 1:05.5 | Food as medicine. And the flip side is true too. What we're seeing these days is that food can be really detrimental to our health. |
| 1:13.6 | And there's certain ways that we eat and things we eat and ways that we eat |
| 1:18.6 | that can either be health promoting or not health promoting. |
| 1:24.6 | And got a question recently in regards to specifically about kind of eating according to your |
| 1:33.0 | constitutional type. |
| 1:35.3 | As Ayurveda has become very popular these days and over the last number of years, we're |
| 1:42.2 | seeing this dynamic of kind of eating |
| 1:46.4 | and tailoring your diet to specifically suit your unique dosha. |
| 1:52.0 | And while I think there's some real great aspects to that, |
| 1:57.4 | I also think there's a few risks in that in terms of, you know, just how we approach food, |
| 2:05.2 | how we approach eating, how the state of our mind and how we think about our food, and how |
| 2:11.9 | kind of sometimes we can turn food into a stressor. |
| 2:18.3 | And I don't really know how good that is for us if we're really stressed out about our food |
| 2:23.3 | or getting too rigid with how we approach the foods that we eat. |
| 2:28.3 | So there's a whole lot to be said on this discussion of food, but it's not something I've ever really talked about |
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