Medicine of the Evergreens
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Evergreen trees are revered around the world for their medicinal properties, rich folklore, and uplifting symbolism. Although you might be familiar with these trees from your walks through the forest or the holiday seasons, this year you can take your knowledge to the next level by learning how to use them medicinally at home and for your loved ones.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- How the aromatic, pungent, and sour tastes correspond to Evergreens' herbal actions
- The Evergreens' affinity for the upper respiratory tract and other organ systems
- What Evergreens symbolize in traditions around the world
- Different ways you can prepare Evergreen medicine, from simmer pots to tinctures and everything in between
- How to make a delicious Spruce syrup - perfect for the holiday season!
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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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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ABOUT SAJAH
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, one of the things I love about the autumn and the wintertime is that cool, fresh, crisp air that you get on a clear sunny day like today, which is rare for us here in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:35.6 | And, you know, I think a lot of herbalists sometimes maybe get a little bit sad when the autumn season rolls around, winter rolls around, because, you know, we're not really out in the garden too much, we're not really harvesting too much. |
| 0:48.3 | It's kind of our downtime in a way as herbalist. |
| 0:51.3 | And that's why I also really love our evergreen materia medica. You know, |
| 0:56.9 | the way that these trees, the evergreen life and the way that that medicine is abundantly |
| 1:03.8 | available for us all year around is a really special thing. And these types of trees have a lot of medicine that's really good for us in these winter months. |
| 1:14.8 | And so while we've done some content in the past talking about some more of the folklore around Evergreens, |
| 1:19.8 | especially in their kind of association in a lot of the holiday traditions that pop up across the world around the wintertime, |
| 1:27.1 | thought it would take some time today to share a little bit about more of the medicinal virtues |
| 1:31.1 | and properties of our evergreen medicines. |
| 1:35.7 | Hey, what's up everybody? |
| 1:36.9 | Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, and welcome to a little |
| 1:42.6 | discussion here on evergreens. |
| 1:45.0 | So, you know, when we're looking at the Evergreen Materia Medica, |
| 1:48.0 | we're really looking at a pretty broad range of medicinal trees. |
| 1:54.0 | And that ranges anywhere from the pines, the spruces, the hemlocks, the furs, the cedars, the cedars, there's a whole lot of different evergreen |
| 2:03.5 | trees out there all across the world. But what we see is that a lot of them display very similar |
| 2:10.5 | medicinal properties. So I'm kind of lumping them all together, which is not something I tend to do. |
| 2:16.9 | But really, for the most part, a lot of these herbs have a lot of crossover properties. |
| 2:23.3 | So I'm going to be speaking to them in relatively general terms here. Each one sometimes has some unique specificities about it. |
| 2:32.3 | But we're just going to be discussing kind of some of those |
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