The Quintessential Herb Monograph (Part 1)
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
I always say one of the best things we can do as herbalists is not only study the plants with consistency, but to really know how to study them. What are the critical pieces of information you have to know about every plant you work with? When you are doing your research on a particular herb, what are the essential things you want to look for, write down, and compile in your own notes?
That is what this lecture is all about. In it, I go through various aspects and elements of a plants unique medicinal virtues and properties- from it's chemistry and extraction, to the 5 critical pieces of info you need to know to use it holistically, as well as its subtle spiritual and psychological properties.
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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 Keenade. |
| 0:32.1 | Okay, so what we'll do is this, I'm really excited to share this, |
| 0:34.5 | this framework with you today. |
| 0:38.8 | This is what I call the quintessential herbal monograph. |
| 0:47.1 | And essentially for me, well, I guess I'll introduce myself first, actually, because I know some of you weren't at my class yesterday. |
| 0:50.0 | My name is Sejah, and I live in southern Oregon with my wife Whitney on a piece of property in the Applegate Valley. |
| 0:57.7 | Actually, just about 15 or 20 minutes away from Jeff and Elise at O'Shalla there. |
| 1:02.9 | And I have my school there, the school of evolutionary herbalism, and I teach out of a little yurt out there in the woods and then also spend a lot |
| 1:13.6 | of time making Spajiric medicines which was the topic of discussion yesterday. So today is very |
| 1:20.6 | different, very different discussion than Spajirics and today talking about a quintessential herbal monograph. |
| 1:29.5 | And this, I was really inspired by this class and just this topic, essentially just by being |
| 1:40.8 | out in the world and traveling and working at a lot of different conferences and events |
| 1:46.0 | and interfacing and interacting with the products industry a lot, the supplement industry a lot. |
| 1:54.7 | I went to Bastille University up in Washington, and so having also knowing a lot of people that are naturopaths and |
| 2:03.6 | going through ND programs and down at NC&M and just kind of feeling a pulse on modern herbalism, |
| 2:11.3 | right? And kind of sometimes feeling a little bit discouraged by what people should be and what |
| 2:21.1 | especially in the naturopathic world what a lot of my friends that are at best here in NC&M |
| 2:26.0 | they're like whoa naturopathic medicine is really changing from what it used to be like back in |
| 2:31.5 | the 80s and kind of the direction that that I've talked about with a lot of my colleagues is this |
| 2:39.6 | concept of alopathic herbalism. |
| 2:42.5 | And I think it's kind of a weird combination of words, right, to think alipathic herbalism. |
| 2:49.6 | It's like, what? |
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