Sinusitis and The Magic of the Herbal Neti Pot

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When we think of topical applications, skin poultices and salves might come to mind. But herbs can also be applied topically to the respiratory tract—particularly the sinuses—using a simple neti pot. For sinusitis, this approach allows herbs to act exactly where they're needed, offering both relief and support for healing.

In this article, we'll explore how to work with herbal nasal rinses in practice. You'll learn when this method is most useful, which herbal actions to draw upon, and which plants are especially effective for sinus applications. We'll also cover preparation tips and safety notes to help you work with this method clearly and confidently.

What you'll learn:

How herbal neti pots are ideal in treating and preventing sinusitis
The types of herbal actions best suited for sinus care best suited to neti pot applications
Preparation methods and safety considerations for herbal neti

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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	Hello there, everybody, Seja here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and
0:16.2	Natura Sophia Spajirix. And welcome back to the plant path.
0:22.2	And, uh, you know, one of the things that's really interesting about being an herbalist
0:26.9	is that, uh, every once in a while, you get to be your own guinea pig.
0:32.4	Yeah.
0:33.0	And, uh, those really, you know, turn into, I think, some of the really pivotal,
0:40.5	pivotable, pivotable, pivotal moments on our plant path because we really experience a particular
0:49.7	type of health problem.
0:51.5	And then we experience a very particular type of remedial situation
0:57.9	that is really important, I think, for us to understand our herbs through experience.
1:06.8	And while obviously we don't want to go down the list and experience every single disease and cure it ourselves, you know, that would be pretty horrible and uncomfortable. But boy, you'd be a really great herbalist if that did happen to you. We will all kind of experience our own challenges, right, along the way.
1:29.3	And I think that's one of the ways I like to describe the plant path, right,
1:33.8	is that we're traveling through this life.
1:36.0	We're walking on this road of life and that we are going to get challenged.
1:40.1	We're going to get sick.
1:42.4	And that's in a way to, I think think a time of a testing point right a testing
1:47.7	of our faith in our medicines in our plants in our remedies what are we going to turn to when
1:55.8	things get tough and so i recently in recent history, got sick.
2:04.4	And at first, it seemed like I had a little, just a little cough due cold, you know,
2:10.6	all the stuffy nose and a little sore throat and kind of started for a few days. I wasn't feeling so good, but it was like, eh, it's not really that bad. Like, yeah, maybe I just slept with my mouth open and I'm stuffed up. You know, one of those things. Now you kind of like, you kind of know you're getting sick, but you make an excuse. So that was me. So I was like, no, I'm not going to, whatever, it would be fine. And then pretty soon
2:35.9	it's like, yeah, okay, the throat hurts. And then, okay, it's trying to get down into the lungs.
2:42.8	So I did my normal thing of treatment, right? I did my kind of standard stuff that I do and I'm not
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