The Spring Cleanse

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The premise of cleansing is popular in alternative medicine circles, seen as one of the most important ways to get and stay healthy. But is it really? Is our modern take on cleansing the same as it was traditionally? And most importantly, is cleansing really appropriate for anyone and everyone? We'll cover all that and more in our exploration of the spring cleanse.

Here's what I'll cover:

What happens in the spring transition that necessitates a cleanse?
The qualities that predominate in winter and what that means for you
The equinox transitions and how patterns in nature affect your health
What to focus on in a spring cleanse
Herbal categories in the spring cleanse: alteratives, nutritives and why they're important
Is a spring cleanse appropriate?

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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH

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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.
0:24.3	Hey there, everybody.
0:25.5	Saja Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:29.3	And welcome back to the plant path.
0:31.6	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about the spring cleanse.
0:36.4	You know, spring is coming up around the corner here.
0:40.6	And this is a topic that is oftentimes brought up in discussion in terms of traditional
0:48.6	Western herbal medicine. It's a question that I get a lot from students and people that follow the channel in terms of
0:58.5	what is the spring cleanse, what herbs fit into that category, should I do it, why do I do it,
1:06.1	etc. and so on. So I thought I'd take some time to talk about this subject a little bit. So
1:11.9	the general premise of the spring cleanse is basically it goes like this. Okay. So if we think
1:21.3	about this in terms of how people used to traditionally live, I think it makes a lot of sense.
1:30.7	And the premise is, okay, it's been, you're emerging out of a long, cold winter.
1:40.1	Imagine when people lived a little bit more of a traditional life style, maybe living on a family farm and things like that.
1:48.8	The availability of fresh food during the wintertime was limited.
1:53.5	So a lot of people were living off of sundries, preserves, canned food, dehydrated food, smoked food, and most
2:06.9	likely a lot of meat, you know, especially if you live up north where it gets very cold and
2:13.1	it's very difficult to grow things, probably not a ton of fresh leafy greens coming out of the gardens,
2:21.4	right? We're talking probably a substantial amount of root vegetables that tend to keep a little
2:29.9	bit better throughout the winter, right? Your potatoes and your carrots and your beats and your
2:35.9	salariac and all of those roots that tend to keep a lot longer in a cold storage or
2:42.7	things like that. So you've been eating nothing but meat and sundries and dehydrated preserved food all winter long.
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