The Allergic Load
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're going to talk about addressing allergies. This is something that a lot of people struggle with, especially in terms of seasonal allergies. We're in the early stages of summer here. This is the time when a lot of people get affected by a lot of the pollens in the air and dealing with upper respiratory stuff. So not only is it pertinent at this time, there's also the question of why we get allergies. What's the root cause? And why is it that sometimes we have an allergy when we're a kid, and then it goes away, but then it comes back later in life?
We're going to look at the underlying physiology behind allergies, why they can come and go, and what you can do on a foundational level to not just treat allergies with herbs. I'm not going into how to treat allergies with herbs so much as some of the fundamental things that you need to do to address the root cause of those allergies.
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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. Sajah's approach honors and acknowledges the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants for a holistic model that uses the whole herb to heal the whole person. 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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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 | 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. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey there, everybody, Saja here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:29.4 | And in this week's episode of the blog, we're going to be talking about addressing allergies. |
| 0:36.9 | You know, this is a really big thing that a lot of people struggle with, especially in terms |
| 0:43.3 | of seasonal allergies here. |
| 0:45.3 | We're kind of in the early stages of summer here, and this is that time where a lot of people |
| 0:51.3 | get really affected by a lot of the pollens in the air and dealing with |
| 0:55.8 | upper respiratory stuff and so I just thought it was a very pertinent thing to share with you at this |
| 1:02.4 | time but also thinking about like why do we get allergies right like what are what's at the root |
| 1:08.9 | cause of that and why is it that sometimes we have an |
| 1:12.6 | allergy when we're a kid and then it goes away but then it comes back later in life what's going |
| 1:18.8 | on there so in this episode talking a little bit more about some of the underlying uh physiology |
| 1:25.1 | behind allergies and why they can come and go and what you can do kind of on a |
| 1:33.6 | foundational level to try to not just treat allergies with herbs. I'm not really going so |
| 1:39.6 | much into how to treat allergies with herbs so much as what are some of the fundamental things |
| 1:47.0 | that you need to do to address that root cause of those allergies. So I hope you enjoy |
| 1:54.0 | this week's episode of the evolutionary herbalism blog. And I read, I have been working with a medical herbalist for over a year. |
| 2:04.0 | My initial concern was my seasonal allergies that have gotten consistently worse over the past |
| 2:09.9 | five years. I knew it was something deeper, most likely related to my gut health. And sure |
| 2:15.8 | enough, the majority of the support and guidance I've |
| 2:17.9 | received has been around digestion, absorption, and elimination. Great. Sounds like a good |
| 2:24.4 | approach. That's probably what I would do too. However, this is my second year using daily |
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