Elecampane: The Deep Breather
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Elecampane has become one of my personal favorite respiratory remedies over the years, not just for its medicinal benefits for many of the common respiratory woes people face today, but as a choice restorative agent. Whether you make it into a tincture or enjoy the syrup, Elecampane is a remedy every herbalist should know.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- Elecampane's pungent and aromatic taste and how it corresponds to its core respiratory properties
- Why this herb is a primo respiratory remedy
- The connection between Elecampane and homesickness
- Elecampane's correspondence to the Sun and Air Element
- How to prepare medicinal remedies with Elecampane
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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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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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| 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. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey what's up everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:27.6 | And today we're going to be talking about a remedy that has really grown on me over the last number of years, |
| 0:34.6 | primarily because we've been growing it in our garden and |
| 0:37.8 | this plant is just stunning so today gonna be teaching you a little bit |
| 0:43.2 | about Ella campaign and this plant it's Latin name is Inylla Hellenium and that |
| 0:52.0 | species or that genus name Iny, is actually indicative of one of the constituents found in this plant called Inulin, now relatively, I guess, famous, prebiotic sugar that's used to feed the gut flora. |
| 1:10.0 | But talking about some of the core properties of this plant. |
| 1:14.9 | Well, first off, this is a very pungent plant. |
| 1:19.8 | So the taste of this plant is hot, spicy, aromatic. |
| 1:25.1 | We use the root of the plant here, which is really rich in volatile essential oils |
| 1:31.3 | that have this very distinctly aromatic flavor. And that is super indicative of some of its core properties, |
| 1:40.3 | which of course we'll talk about throughout the course of this video. So, |
| 1:44.4 | so it's a pungent, aromatic, flavored plant. It also does have a little bit of bitterness |
| 1:51.1 | present in there, although I find that the pungency of this herb really tends to kind of override |
| 1:58.5 | some of the other taste that we might find there. |
| 2:01.8 | So, pungent, bitter, as well as a little bit of acridity. |
| 2:07.3 | And that acrid flavor I've talked about in a couple other posts, |
| 2:12.1 | talked about it a few weeks ago when we shot a video out here in the garden on blue vervein. |
| 2:17.0 | And what we find with |
| 2:18.5 | the acrid flavor is that tends to indicate a plant that has a little bit of a spasmalytic |
| 2:24.8 | or relaxant property to it, which we definitely find here a little bit with Ella campaign. |
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