Meadowsweet: Not Just "Herbal Aspirin"

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Meadowsweet is often thought of as herbal aspirin. Even though it's no secret that its compounds were originally used to formulate and synthesize aspirin, can you really use it in the same way?

If you want to get the same results from Meadowsweet as aspirin, you would have to drink quarts of the tea, which is tough to do because it's incredibly bitter. Not only would you be feeling pretty nauseous by the end, but you would also only get the strength of a baby aspirin, if you're lucky!

Even though Meadowsweet contains aspirin-like compounds, they are not the same. Meadowsweet is an herb used for centuries, and although it has many traditional uses, its applications are more relevant than ever in our modern day.

In today's episode, you'll discover:

Meadowsweet's bitter and astringent taste and why this combination is so good for treating ulcers
How Meadowsweet alleviates heartburn, ulcers in the GI, joint pain, and more with its energetic and biochemical properties
Why Meadowsweet is helpful for so many modern-day issues that didn't use to exist
Meadowsweet's powerful connection with Saturn and how it balances other planetary influences

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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.
0:22.6	Can a medicinal herb really be understood based on just a single isolated constituent?
0:29.6	I don't really think so, but I do think it is really interesting when we see herbs with really biologically active constituents, and I do think it can lend a lot of insight into the nature of their medicine.
0:43.3	And that's something that we find here with the soliculate-containing plants.
0:48.3	You know, these are the compounds that were ultimately the basis for aspirin.
0:52.3	And what I find, though, is that it's really common for people to think of these
0:57.6	herbs as natural aspirin. And to be honest, I don't really think that's a really great way of
1:03.2	understanding them. I think it could be really limiting and it makes us kind of overlook the more
1:09.3	holistic nature and virtue of the whole herb.
1:13.6	And so today I'm going to be talking about the plant that really was the base plant for aspirin.
1:19.6	We're going to be talking about Philippa pendula, Ulmeria, and some interesting dynamics with this herb where in actuality, this herb can treat the same pattern that is created when people are taking things like inseds and aspirin in excess, specifically problems with the gastric membrane and things like that.
1:42.3	So we're going to head on over to the garden. We got our
1:44.5	patch of Meadow Suite over here and dig into some of the properties of this important medicinal
1:50.5	plant. All right, everyone. So here we are at our little patch of Meadow Suite here in the garden.
1:56.9	And it is looking quite glorious as it is currently in flower.
2:03.3	And let's just go through some of the core properties of this plant.
2:07.1	So the common name is Meadow Sweet, as I already mentioned.
2:11.7	And the current Latin name for this plant is Philippineula Ulmeria. It used to go under the Latin genus
2:20.8	of spirea, but botanist changed it and it is now, uh, goes under philipendula. But, you know,
2:28.2	some interesting history actually of that genus spirea. This was actually the first plant that solicilates were isolated from.
2:38.0	Solicilates, or salicylic acid, of course, being the compound that ultimately was the basis for aspirin.
2:46.0	And that's where we get the word, aspirin,
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