Herbs Therapeutics for Pain
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pain is one of the #1 reasons people go to see the doctor these days. But aside but over the counter anti-inflammatory drugs, benzodiazepine based muscle relaxants, or opiate based pain meds, modern pharmaceutical and allopathic medicine has very little to offer for the treatment of pain.
And unfortunately people think plants are just kind of "cute" when it comes to treating pain.
But the truth is that we can do so much more with our plants to treat the pain response that most pills can. From anti-spasmodics and nervine hypnotics, to inflammation modulating remedies and anodynes, plants are gifted in the ways they work on broad spectrum physiological processes that are responsible for pain.
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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is committed to creating a new paradigm of plant medicine anchored in herbal, medical, and spiritual traditions from around the world. His work integrates the science and spirit of herbal medicine, creating a system that is equally holistic, healing and transformational. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north & south, above & below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.
Sajah's vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physical healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness. He never allopathicallyl focuses on just what a plant is "good for" but rather who the plants are as sentient beings. Sajah's 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 in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his healing art. For more information about his products and programs, visit www.organic-unity.com & www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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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 Unity. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of Organic Unity and the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:31.6 | And so the other day, I threw my back out pretty bad. been seeing a chiropractor and basically said I've got a slipped disc in my lower back |
| 0:44.3 | and I've been in a lot of pain lately and been kind of having a hard time with it. |
| 0:50.3 | And I was thinking about it and I thought I would shoot a little video on you for you, |
| 0:55.8 | a video for you here on herbs and pain. You know, a lot of people tend to think that, |
| 1:02.2 | oh, well, you know, herbs are kind of cute when it comes to pain, but really it's the drugs |
| 1:08.5 | that work well. They're the heavier hitters you |
| 1:11.8 | know you can't really do that much for pain with herbs and that's actually really |
| 1:17.2 | not true and in my opinion I actually think we have the upper hand as herbalist |
| 1:24.5 | than a lot of doctors do with the pain, with their drugs and prescriptions, |
| 1:30.3 | rather. So I wanted to talk with you a little bit about kind of an herbal approach |
| 1:37.3 | to treating pain, some of the critical herbal actions that we use for pain, as well as sharing a couple plant examples |
| 1:46.0 | for in regards to herbs that are good for pain so one thing that pain can do is it can |
| 1:52.4 | really kind of dominate your consciousness and make it a little bit hard to think |
| 1:56.3 | clearly so stick with me here and share some good stuff with you here. So one of the main things about drugs for pain pretty much what they got is they got opiates, right? |
| 2:10.6 | And a whole bunch of different types of opiates, but ultimately they have the similar structure and similar effect working through |
| 2:20.4 | the opioid pathways in the brain and basically distancing your consciousness from the pain, |
| 2:28.6 | basically making you feel so stoned that the pain doesn't matter or it feels very distant. |
| 2:36.3 | It doesn't necessarily take the pain away so much as kind of remove you from your body. |
| 2:43.5 | And this would be all types of drugs that ultimately were developed out of papavar somniferem or the opium poppy. |
| 2:53.6 | You know, we've got the older forms of that being something like laudanum, |
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