Elemental Anatomy
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode is from the 2017 Alchemical Herbalism Workshop. Traditional medical systems see that the body is not simply composed of atoms, molecular structures, or even organs, systems, and tissues. Rather, they saw that the human body is a microcosm of the macrocosm- that is, we contain the wholeness of life and nature within us. One of the primary ways this was seen traditionally is through the lens of the Elements.
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| 0:00.0 | The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Saja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Keenade. |
| 0:25.6 | I'd like to start going into some of the patterns of the elements |
| 0:33.6 | as they relate to herbal medicine. |
| 0:40.5 | So as I was mentioning earlier, |
| 0:46.6 | we do see the elements present in virtually every herbal system that I've come across. |
| 0:50.6 | Ayurvedic medicine, they're there. |
| 0:52.3 | Tibetan medicine elements. |
| 0:53.9 | Chinese medicine elements. Galenic medicine, the |
| 0:56.0 | traditional Greek model built off of the elements. The Unani-Tib system, Arabic system built off of the elements. |
| 1:03.0 | Even traditional North American herbalism developed around the 1800s, 17-1800s, early 1900s, they still were using an elemental model. |
| 1:14.6 | They weren't necessarily using the words, earth, water, air, fire, but they're using terms like |
| 1:19.7 | depression and excitation and heat and cold and dryness and everything like that. |
| 1:26.2 | So they're still referring to those qualities of the elements. |
| 1:33.3 | So even though it was a little bit different terminology, |
| 1:36.3 | we still see that they were still using the elements as a foundation |
| 1:41.3 | for how they understood their herbal medicines working, |
| 1:46.0 | as well as how they would do their assessments of their clients and patients and things like that. |
| 1:51.0 | So they really do permeate across the whole world, and spanning across the world and throughout time and tradition, the elements just pop up again and again and again. |
| 2:04.0 | And they're one of those things that, you know, for me, I'll always be learning from the elements and always coming back to you |
| 2:12.0 | because they just provide such a solid foundation of how life is put together. |
| 2:18.1 | So in herbal traditions, we see the elements influencing everything from their understanding |
| 2:24.9 | of how nature is created to how they understand the medicinal properties of their plants, |
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