Holistic Herbalism and Influenza

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The other day I did one of our quarterly live Q&A sessions for all of the Evolutionary Herbalism students and someone asked a question about how do we go about holistically treating influenza. It's December of 2019, and as I'm sure you know, this tends to be the season where people are coming down with the flu or people are getting colds. They've got compromised immune systems. There's all sorts of bugs floating around in the air. So I thought it would be really fun to share some of the content that I taught during that Q&A webinar.

I thought this was a very fitting discussion to be sharing here in the late autumn, transitioning in to winter time. So I just wanted to do a little introduction here, I hope you enjoy some of the teachings that I shared here in our Evolutionary Herbalism quarterly webinar. We are going to be talking a little bit here about some of my approaches to holistically addressing influenza and fever.

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ABOUT SAJAH

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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 Unique.
0:29.6	Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. And, you know, the other day I did one of our quarterly live Q&A sessions for all of the evolutionary herbalism students.
0:40.3	And someone asked a question about how do we go about holistically treating influenza?
0:50.0	And, you know, we're here.
0:51.7	It's December of 2019.
0:54.2	And as I'm sure you know, this're here. It's December of 2019.
1:02.5	And as I'm sure you know, this tends to be the season where people are coming down with the flu or people are getting colds. We've got compromised immune systems.
1:04.2	There's all sorts of bugs floating around in the air.
1:07.9	And so I thought it would be really fun to share some of the content that I
1:12.8	taught during that Q&A webinar. So, you know, one of the reasons why I think this is
1:20.0	particularly important is because, you know, it's really conventional for people when they get the flu and get, especially with
1:30.4	the accompanying fever, for people to really reach for, you know, taking something like aspirin
1:36.1	to get that fever down. And, you know, one of the things that we see is that when we suppress a
1:43.4	fever, we actually end up
1:45.3	prolonging the sickness there, right?
1:49.1	We can turn what would normally be maybe a two, three day fever into a week-long fever
1:55.0	through suppressing it.
1:57.0	And, you know, one of the wonderful things about herbal medicine is that we have plants available
2:03.8	to us that really support the body in going about its natural response in the way the body
2:12.7	reacts to a fever and the way that, you know, I think it's important for us as herbalists to remember
2:20.3	that there is a vital intelligence in the body, right? In the West, we oftentimes refer to that
2:27.7	as the vital force. And as holistic herbalists, we want to really make sure that we're always honoring and following
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