The Importance of Moistening Plants
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Most herbs tend to be drying in nature. They're bitter or they're warming or they're astringent. The dynamic of dryness in terms of the state of our tissues or the state of someone's constitution is common. We live in a culture that is common for people to have an underlying state of dryness.
So I tell my students that it's best to learn and know and memorize and integrate all the herbs that are typically moistening, and especially what organ systems they are moistening for. After that, you can assume that most other herbs are drying.
In this week's blog post, I discuss why most herbs are drying, how to determine whether an herb is drying or moistening, and much more.
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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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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, Seja here, and in this post I want to talk about an important category of herbal medicines |
| 0:34.6 | that can be very, very easy for us as practitioners to overlook both in terms |
| 0:41.4 | of how we approach studying our plants as well as something to assess and understand with |
| 0:48.9 | our clients. |
| 0:50.3 | And this is a polarity that we see in energetic models based on moisture. |
| 0:57.0 | And specifically, obviously in our moisture polarity, we have dryness and we have dampness in people, |
| 1:09.0 | or we have drying remedies or moistening remedies and this is a super super |
| 1:19.6 | important dynamic to know about your herbs specifically knowing your |
| 1:24.4 | moistening plants and knowing how to assess dryness in a person. |
| 1:31.3 | And the reason I wanted to talk about this specifically in this video is one particular reason, |
| 1:39.3 | which is that most herbs are drying. |
| 1:49.0 | It's true. |
| 1:51.0 | Most herbs tend to be drying in nature. |
| 1:54.0 | They're bitter or they're warming or they're astringent. |
| 1:59.0 | You know, a lot of our herbs, you know, |
| 2:01.0 | I always joke around and say, |
| 2:02.1 | they make you poop more, they make you sweat more, |
| 2:03.8 | they make you pee more. |
| 2:05.1 | They generally tend to make your body secrete things |
| 2:10.1 | that ultimately over the long term leave the body. |
| 2:13.6 | And in that regard, they tend to have drying effects. |
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