Motherwort: The Lion Hearted Herb
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Motherwort, the "lion-hearted herb," fills your heart with courage and soothes its inner wounds. This herb tends to the physical and emotional heart and is an indispensable part of the Materia medica. With its many uses and simple administration techniques, this herb is sure to become a favorite herb to support a healthy heart.
In this week's episode, you'll learn:
- What Motherwort tastes like this and how this translates to its effects on the body
- This herb's organ affinities, energetics, and herbal actions
- The emotional indications of Motherwort
- Motherwort's astrological and alchemical correspondences
- How to prepare medicine at home using this herb
————————————
CONNECT WITH SAJAH AND WHITNEY
————————————
To get free in depth mini-courses and videos, visit our blog at:
http://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
Get daily inspiration and plant wisdom on our Facebook and Instagram channels:
http://www.facebook.com/EvolutionaryHerbalism
https://www.instagram.com/evolutionary_herbalism/
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyP63opAmcpIAQg1M9ShNSQ
Get a free 5-week course when you buy a copy of the book, Evolutionary Herbalism:
https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/evolutionary-herbalism-book/
————————————
ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
————————————
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.
————————————
ABOUT SAJAH
————————————
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.
————————————
ABOUT WHITNEY
————————————
Whitney Popham is an herbal practitioner and the co-founder of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unity. Her calling to plant medicine began from a deep passion for activism and a vision for creating healing and positive change in the world. She has devoted her life to that vision by being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and bring more healing and beauty into the world.
Through her own health challenges and struggles, she experienced the profound healing gifts of plant medicines and then committed her life to helping others reach vibrant levels of health. She specializes in digestive health in her clinical practice through working with herbal medicine, nutrition and lifestyle coaching. Her true gift is in listening to the plants through intuition and vision, which she uses to help her clients with healing on the emotional, psychological, spiritual, as well as physical levels of health.
————————————
WANT TO FEATURE US ON YOUR PODCAST?
————————————
If you'd like to interview Sajah or Whitney to be on your podcast, click here to fill out an interview request form.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, what's up, everyone? |
| 0:26.9 | Saja here. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey, I'm Whitney, and we're just here in our garden, and the motherwort is flowering, so we're |
| 0:32.5 | going to share a little bit about this plant. |
| 0:35.5 | All right, so let's talk about some of the core properties of motherwort. |
| 0:39.3 | So first off, its common name is motherwort. Latin name is Leonuris Cardiaca, which we'll talk about |
| 0:46.2 | some of the interesting dynamics around that name. But it's in the mint family. Lamiae |
| 0:51.6 | ACA is indicated by the square stems and the opposite leaves. |
| 0:56.1 | And one of the ways that I like to start off talking about a plant is really describing the taste of the herb. |
| 1:02.2 | Taste is incredibly indicative of the core medicinal properties of a remedy. |
| 1:08.1 | And with motherwort, this is a straight bitter plant. It is a really |
| 1:12.8 | bitter plant. And the bitter taste indicates a lot of things about a plant, as a lot of people these |
| 1:18.7 | days have come to understand, is that it is really indicative of an action on the digestive system. |
| 1:25.8 | The bitter receptors on the tongue directly correlate to a nerve |
| 1:31.6 | response into the digestive system that causes everything to start secreting. But a lot of research |
| 1:38.6 | has been done on bitter receptors showing that they're not just located in the digestive system. We've got bitter receptors |
| 1:45.4 | scattered throughout our entire cardiovascular system, our nervous system, all throughout the body. |
| 1:52.2 | And this is why we see so many bitter plants having a really wide variety of properties |
| 1:58.0 | outside of the sphere of just digestion. |
| 2:01.8 | So the bitter flavor here, that indicates a number of the affinities and actions that this |
| 2:08.1 | plant has. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sajah Popham, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sajah Popham and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.