From Sick Care to Health Care: The Advantages of Preventive Astro-Herbalism
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The current healthcare system focuses on managing disease after it has occurred instead of preventing its onset.
Alternatively, holistic herbalism is a wellness-first approach that emphasizes disease prevention. Through it, you can effectively address disease potentials and correct imbalances to prevent their onset.
One of my favorite tools for this is the natal chart, which is a part of Astro-Herbalism. By shifting the focus from disease management to disease prevention, you can create a more proactive and holistic approach to healthcare.
In today's episode, you'll learn
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Why being healthy and not being sick are not the same thing
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The 5 roots of health and how they correspond to the Elements
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Why understanding the constitution is a critical part of holistic herbalism
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What vitalism is and the role it plays in your health
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How to use the natal chart as a practical assessment tool
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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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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ABOUT SAJAH
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:30.6 | And in this video I want to talk to you about the nature of preventative medicine. |
| 0:36.6 | And I think this is one of the strong points that we see |
| 0:41.0 | in just the whole alternative medicine scene, right? That, you know, in kind of our more modern |
| 0:48.1 | biomedical paradigm of medicine, it's really typically focused not so much on health, but just on sickness, right? |
| 0:56.6 | On treating disease and illness and symptoms and using medicine when you get sick. |
| 1:04.4 | And I think that's a very interesting orientation that the practice of medicine being focused more on sickness rather than |
| 1:16.7 | health. And I think one of the strong points of not just herbal medicine, but just more holistic |
| 1:24.2 | or what I mean I refer to as alternative medicine these days is that it's more |
| 1:28.5 | focused on health, right, on being a healthy person and living a healthy life and in that way |
| 1:37.1 | preventing disease from ever taking root. And of course there's, you know, what I refer to as the five roots of health, |
| 1:46.4 | which are your basic, you know, things that everyone talks about as being kind of the critical |
| 1:53.1 | elements of living a healthy life, right? And I tend to relate them to the five elements of |
| 1:58.0 | earth, water, air, fire, and ether, you know, where you've got, you know, |
| 2:01.8 | your diet and eating good quality foods and you've got your hydration, drinking good water, |
| 2:09.4 | ingesting, you know, quality oils. You've got sleep, right? Maybe you're getting enough sleep |
| 2:16.0 | and having good psychological health. You've got |
| 2:19.7 | exercise, that fire element, right? Making sure there's adequate movement in your life. And I also |
| 2:27.2 | include in there under the ether element that purpose, right, that I don't think we're truly |
| 2:31.8 | healthy in terms of the wholeness of who we are unless we have |
| 2:36.9 | a purpose in our life unless we've got an aspiration a goal a dream something that we're working |
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