Phytopharmaceuticals, Standardized and Whole Plant Extracts

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

These days, supplement shelves are filled with all kinds of different products based on plants. Tinctures, teas, whole plant preparations, standardized extractions, phytopharmaceuticals . . . but what's the difference between them? These are the most common types of herbal extracts you'll encounter, and they all have their own unique properties and uses.

Each of these extracts has a different level of strength in the body, with phytopharmaceuticals nearing the potency of conventional drugs. We're often taught that stronger is better, but is that true for herbal extracts? By understanding the three main categories of herbal extracts, you'll learn when it's best to use each type and whether choosing the strongest extract is always the smartest option.

In today's blog post, you'll learn:

What whole plant, standardized, and phytopharmaceutical extracts are
The pros and cons of each type
When it's the best time and place for each extract option
Why stronger is not always better when it comes to herbal medicine
The power of constituent synergy and how it's lost in certain preparations

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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	What's the best way to take your herbal medicine? Is it teas, infusions, decoctions,
0:30.3	tinctures, tablets, capsules, standardized extracts, super concentrates, you know, with so many
0:37.3	different products available on the market
0:40.4	these days, it's no wonder so many people out there get overwhelmed, confused, and sometimes
0:46.8	it can be actually easy to be misled by really big phytopharmaceutical companies whose sole purpose is honestly usually focused more
0:57.8	on making profit than it is providing the best most effective form of herbal extract. So today I wanted
1:07.1	to talk about some of the different forms of herbal extract.
1:13.1	They kind of explain what they are, what their differences are, and when is it appropriate
1:19.2	for us to take a form of herbal extract that may not necessarily be preparable by the folk home herbalist or even the clinical
1:32.3	herbalist that makes their own medicine. You know, there's certainly lots of products out there
1:37.6	that we can't necessarily make in our home kitchen, home pharmacy, or even home lab environment. And, you know, sometimes it feels like
1:47.7	that there's this mindset maybe out there in the world, in the culture, that, you know,
1:54.5	stronger is better. The more concentrated, the better. And is that, is it true? You know, is it necessarily true? Do we really need to be
2:04.5	taking 100 to 1 concentrate herbal extracts of ginseng, right? So I wanted to take a look at what I
2:14.6	see as kind of three big picture general categories of herbal extracts and
2:20.4	kind of talk about some of their similarities, their differences, and kind of compare them together
2:27.2	so we can get a little bit of a better understanding of the different forms of herbal extract.
2:32.3	So the first one I want to talk about here
2:34.9	is what I generally refer to as just a whole plant extract.
2:40.8	This is really the type of extract that most of us as herbalists
2:45.8	are the most familiar with
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