The Herbalist's Approach to Liver Heat

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Your liver is responsible for metabolizing every waste product that your body produces, as well as everything you put into your body, good and bad. In this way, the liver is central to the health of the entire body, for it is a nutrient storehouse and makes sure everything stays pure and clean. When its functioning becomes affiliated, it can lead to a number of health concerns, both on the physical level and the psychological emotional levels. One of the most prevalent and disabling ones is headaches. By supporting your liver, you can resolve the very source that causes headaches and find long-term relief.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

The liver's function in the body
Two tissue states the liver is prone to
The connection between a stagnated liver and "liver heat rising"
Herbal categories to use to balance these tissue states
Specific herbs for liver heat
Dietary recommendations for a healthy liver
Emotional correspondences of the liver

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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	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.
0:29.6	And in today's episode, going to be talking about the liver.
0:33.6	You know, the liver is, I mean, we could probably say this about any organ system of the body, but it is a really, really important organ system.
0:40.7	And it is a busy organ in the body in that it is responsible for processing and metabolizing
0:49.6	every single nutrient from every single bit of food you put into your body to processing all of the
0:57.0	metabolic waste products that our body produces during metabolism. And with this world of
1:06.8	a lot of toxins in the environment and in the food and in the things that we consume, our
1:13.4	livers are really, really busy. And it's very important to support our liver health in appropriate
1:22.1	ways. And so recently I got a question from a student about looking at the heat excitation tissue
1:31.5	state within the liver and kind of what's the underlying physiological process going on
1:37.6	there?
1:38.6	Like how do we end up with a quote hot liver and what are the best types of herbs that we can use to treat that hot liver?
1:47.0	And you know, I think this is also important because the liver can be at the root of a lot of other symptoms that we experience on a daily basis.
1:59.0	And I think one of the big ones here is headaches. You know, a lot of people
2:03.9	experience headaches to minorly annoying headaches to crippling headaches. And it's really hard to
2:13.0	have a good day when you have a really bad headache. And while it's really easy to just pop an aspirin
2:20.0	or an ibuprofen or a Tylenol or, you know, for the bold drinking a really strong cup
2:26.0	willow bark tea or something to try to suppress that headache, we really need to ask the deeper
2:32.2	question of like, why do you have the headache?
2:35.8	And oftentimes the liver is a major aspect of that.
2:41.6	So I wanted to take some time to share this little teaching here around the liver
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