The Herbal Detox Myth
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Detoxification felt like a big fad for a while, where like everyone was cleansing and detoxing and trying to purge a lot of things that shouldn't be in the body out of the body. And they turn to herbal medicines in order to assist in that process.
While it's great that folks are considering their health and wanting to make sure that their bodies are pure and clean and functioning properly, we do run into some issues with detoxification. So this is an important topic to discuss.
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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 | Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:28.6 | And thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to watch this video here where I'm going to be discussing a little bit about detoxification. |
| 0:36.6 | You know, this is a term that |
| 0:38.3 | gets used a lot in alternative medicine circles. And it's a really, was a really big, kind of felt like a big |
| 0:48.7 | fad there for a while where like everyone was cleansing and detoxing and just trying to purge everything. |
| 0:56.2 | Maybe not everything, |
| 0:56.9 | but a lot of things that shouldn't be in the body, |
| 0:58.8 | out of the body, |
| 1:00.2 | and turning to herbal medicines in order to assist in that process. |
| 1:06.1 | Well, |
| 1:06.3 | I think that's great that folks are, |
| 1:08.0 | you know, |
| 1:08.6 | considering their health and wanting to, you know, |
| 1:11.8 | make sure that their bodies are pure and clean and functioning properly. |
| 1:16.8 | We do run into some issues when herbal medicines are looked at and turned to for detoxification |
| 1:26.1 | and potentially being used to detoxify certain things |
| 1:30.5 | out of the body that we don't really know if those herbs will cleanse that out of their body. |
| 1:36.0 | And adding on to that, when we look at the concept of detoxification or purifying the blood and the tissues of the body. |
| 1:47.6 | When we're looking at that from the traditional perspectives, it's very different from the way |
| 1:53.0 | people are looking at it here in the modern world. |
| 1:56.7 | And it can potentially lead to misuse of what we in Western herbalism refer to as the |
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