Hyssop: A Biblical Remedy

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Hyssop is an ancient herb with biblical references and spiritual indications. This herb is also an important part of the Western Materia Medica. This combination of information from ancient sources and the modern scientific model lends a unique perspective on this plant and how you can use it in your herbalism practice.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

Hyssop's ancient and biblical roots
The medicinal properties of Hyssop's aromatic bitter taste
Hyssop's unique application as a cough medicine
The psychological and emotional indications for Hyssop
Its relationship to Jupiter and Mercury
How to harvest and make medicine using Hyssop

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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.
0:25.5	You know, one of the things that makes me really, really excited is whenever I find a reference
0:30.3	to a medicinal plant in some sort of holy book or the context of a spiritual lineage or tradition. And, you know, I found one in the Bible
0:40.5	as Psalm 517, which says, purge me with hyssop so that I shall be clean, wash me so that I might
0:51.7	be as white as snow. And I just got really excited when I saw that and I thought that was such a fitting note on this herb.
1:02.0	And I think there's something about a plant being mentioned in the context of
1:08.0	spirituality and religion that can lend us a lot of insights into how we might use that plant today in our modern world.
1:16.6	So coming down into the garden today, we're going to be talking about Hissippus officinalis.
1:21.6	We're harvesting it out of the garden today to take it into the lab to make a spajiric out of it.
1:26.6	And I thought I'd share a little bit about my understanding of this herb with you.
1:31.3	Alright, so here we are in our humble little patch of Hyssop and going to start off sharing about some of the properties of this plant the way I always do, which is talking about the taste of this plant.
1:43.3	So Hissip, you know, the part used, we're using the aerial
1:47.0	parts of the plant, typically when it's in flower. We're getting ready to harvest this patch here
1:51.7	pretty soon. It's kind of at its peak stage. The leaf is really the main part, but you really
1:57.0	use the full aerial plant. And, you know, you'd probably strip the stems off of it.
2:02.1	But so this plant, Hissip in the mint family, its Latin name is Hissippus officinalis or Hissopis.
2:10.5	I don't really quite know how to say it properly, but Hissippus officinalis is usually how I say it.
2:16.1	And so the taste of this plant,'s it's in the as a mint
2:20.7	family plant it's in that unique category of mints that are both bitter and aromatic so some
2:27.4	of the mints we see are pretty much strictly aromatic like lemon balm or like peppermint
2:33.0	some are really strictly just straight
2:36.6	bitter you know like like motherwort and then you've got the ones that are
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