Intention, Alchemy, and Medicine Making
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When we're thinking about herbal medicine making, some of the topics that generally come up amongst herbalists are linear in their approach to how we prepare herbal medicine. It's not common that the dynamic of intention is discussed in standard herbal medicine making, but it's an important part that's discussed quite openly in the alchemical tradition. There are a couple ways that I think are important that we can follow to get ourselves in a good internal state that's conducive to making high-quality herbal medicine, especially in the context of preparing spagyrics.
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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. Sajah's approach honors and acknowledges the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants for a holistic model that uses the whole herb to heal the whole person. 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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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.
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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. |
| 0:29.6 | And when we're thinking about herbal medicine making, you know, some of the topics that generally come up amongst herbalist is much more, you know, |
| 0:40.2 | very linear in its approach to how we prepare herbal medicine, right? |
| 0:44.7 | You know, what part of the plant do we use? |
| 0:47.8 | And should it be fresh or should it be dried? |
| 0:50.9 | And what percentage alcohol should we use? |
| 0:53.8 | Is it better as an infusion or a decoction? |
| 0:56.5 | What are the chemicals in the plant and how do we best extract them? Right. That's usually kind of |
| 1:02.0 | what we're looking for and discussing a lot amongst ourselves as herbalists when we're thinking |
| 1:07.7 | about how can we make the best most powerful and effective herbal medicine |
| 1:13.5 | that we can, right? And I think that's super important, right? We need to know how to make |
| 1:18.9 | effective herbal medicine, right? That is, you know, concentrating and extracting and preserving |
| 1:25.6 | all of the medicinal virtues within a plant. |
| 1:30.4 | Now, when we start digging into the alchemical tradition and the practice of spajirics or herbal alchemy, |
| 1:38.3 | you know, we're not just focusing on concentrating the chemistry of the plant, |
| 1:43.9 | but also concentrating the energetics |
| 1:47.3 | and the spiritual properties of the plant as well. The whole goal of Spajirics being that we are |
| 1:54.8 | preserving the life force of the plant, the wholeness of the plant, its body, its intelligence, |
| 2:03.7 | its spirit, and its soul, so that it will heal the whole person, right? It'll heal our physical being, |
| 2:10.6 | our psychological, emotional being, and even heal us on more of a spiritual level as well. But it's not super common that the |
| 2:22.4 | dynamic of intention is really discussed, right, in standard herbal medicine making. But it's a |
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