Spagyric Pharmacy for the Practitioner of Herbal Medicine
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Many modern practitioners of herbal medicine have a calling to heal not on the body with plants, but also the more subtle levels of the mind, emotions and spirit. While many reach for flower essences to work on this vibrational level of the human, this form of preparation is lacking in the physiological attributes of the plants through their chemistry.
Spagyrics is a form of herbal pharmacy with its roots in the alchemical tradition of the west that provides a truly holistic form of herbal extract- one that concentrates the physiological, energetic and spiritual properties of the plants. Through the synergy of alchemy and clinical herbalism, we have the ability to bring about a transformational level of healing for our clients.
This lecture from the 2017 International Herbal Symposium outlines some of the key principles of alchemy and how to incorporate specific spagyric methods in your home medicine making practices- specifically how to work with the mineral salts of plants.
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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is committed to creating a new paradigm of plant medicine anchored in herbal, medical, and spiritual traditions from around the world. His work integrates the science and spirit of herbal medicine, creating a system that is equally holistic, healing and transformational. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north & south, above & below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.
Sajah's vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physical healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness. He never allopathicallyl focuses on just what a plant is "good for" but rather who the plants are as sentient beings. Sajah's 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 in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his healing art. For more information about his products and programs, visit www.organic-unity.com & www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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| 0:00.0 | The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Saja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Union. |
| 0:26.6 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, I have all sorts of things to say, so I'm going to maybe start a couple minutes early. |
| 0:32.6 | Hope that's okay with you all. |
| 0:34.6 | Thank you very much for coming to my class this morning. I'm always happy when people show up. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm like, this is awesome. So, um, yeah, yeah. If you can't hear me in the back, just let me know. |
| 0:51.3 | I'll do my best to project my voice well. It's a real honor to be |
| 0:58.8 | out here at the International Herb Symposium. I'm from the West Coast, so I don't make myself |
| 1:03.2 | out to the northeast very often, so it's really cool to be out here and to get a chance to |
| 1:07.7 | share what I'm really passionate over here with you all. And today is one of my |
| 1:13.6 | most favorite subjects ever. And I'm going to do my best to share as much as I can with you in an |
| 1:21.9 | hour and a half. I'm used to having like four or five day workshops to talk about alchemy and spajirics. |
| 1:30.0 | And so I find it sometimes a little bit difficult to get it into an hour and a half. |
| 1:34.5 | And I'm going to do my very best to share with you some of the overall philosophy and cosmology of the alchemical tradition of the West, |
| 1:43.9 | as well as give you some practical |
| 1:45.5 | tools that you can take home and start implementing in your work with the plants. |
| 1:50.4 | Everything in alchemy is this balance between theory and practice, so I try to teach in that way. |
| 1:56.5 | For those of you that don't know me, my name is Seja Popham, and I live in southern Oregon in the Applegate Valley with my wife Whitney, where I have my school, the school of evolutionary herbalism, and where I prepare Spajiric medicines there for naturopaths predominantly. |
| 2:14.8 | But we do have all of our Spajirics in the vending area. |
| 2:52.5 | So if you'd like to check out what we have to offer, feel free to stop by our booth. If you want to hang out and talk a little bit more too, that's a good place to do it. I would like to pass around a Spajiric here to start things off. I know how conferences can be. Our heads get spinning, a lot of information, a lot of energy. So I'm going to pass around a really special preparation here of Salvi Apiana, which is our white sage that comes from a good friend harvested that forest outside of San Diego. So we'll just try to like weave that through. And it's really nice to kind of clarify the mind and just kind of clear everything off so we can all be present here. So just a little bit about myself. So I got |
| 3:00.7 | into herbal medicine as a teenager and really was kind of on track to actually become a cardiothoracic |
| 3:06.0 | surgeon was really what I was focusing on to be a doctor and then kind of had a to actually become a cardiothoracic surgeon was really what I was focusing on |
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