The 5 Keys for Using Herbs Holistically
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In the modern world of herbalism, strongly influenced by information from Google and the phytopharmaceutical and supplement industries, there is an increasing lack of traditional knowledge in the common mindset and usage of plant medicines. This had led to an allopathic approach to herbalism and "holistic amnesia," where we treat plants like drugs and not sentient beings.
Ultimately, plants cannot be used like drugs and if they are approached and such they will not work!
This lecture from the 2017 International Herb Symposium outlines 5 keys for how to understand and use herbs in a truly holistic fashion. This isn't focused on what herbs are "good for," but rather who they are as intelligent forces of nature. By learning these 5 keys, everything about a plant is understood within a holistic context so you learn each remedy with more depth and precision.
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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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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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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. |
| 0:28.6 | Hope you all are doing well this morning. |
| 0:30.6 | Sunday always comes so quickly, doesn't it? |
| 0:33.6 | I'm like, wow, it's already here. |
| 0:36.6 | Well, thank you very much for coming to my discussion |
| 0:39.3 | this morning. My name is, I'll start a little early because I always am long-winded and I give |
| 0:45.4 | myself an extra couple minutes here. My name is Seja Popham and I come from southern Oregon and came |
| 0:53.6 | over here with my wife Whitney. |
| 0:55.5 | And over there I have a school called the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, |
| 1:00.9 | which is what I spend most of my time doing. |
| 1:02.8 | And I prepare Spajiric medicines through my company, Organic Unity, where we provide Spajirics predominantly to the |
| 1:16.0 | naturopathic community over there on the West Coast. |
| 1:19.1 | We've got some folks out east here, but not too many, mostly there on the West Coast. |
| 1:25.6 | And so it's really awesome to be out here in the Northeast. We don't get a chance to come over here very often, so it's really awesome to be out here in the Northeast. |
| 1:28.3 | We don't get a chance to come over here very often, |
| 1:31.3 | so it feels really good to be over here and to meet a lot of you all |
| 1:35.3 | and to be a part of the herbal community here in the Northeast, |
| 1:38.3 | which I'm realizing is really strong. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm like, wow, you all got it going on over here. |
| 1:43.3 | It's awesome. So my topic for discussion this morning is what I call the five keys for using herbs holistically. And this class actually was kind of inspired out of a little bit of frustration on my part, to be perfectly honest, in terms of the way I really commonly see and hear herbs being talked about, especially kind of on the internet and the way we see a lot of herbs |
| 2:19.8 | kind of perceived and spoken of, especially in kind of the, I guess, like the supplement industry, |
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