The Taste of Herbs: A Critical Skill for Every Herbalist with Rosalee de la Forêt
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What differentiates an okay herbalist from an excellent one?
I would argue it isn't necessarily how many facts we know about the plants...
It's rooted in our experiential understanding of them.
In this special episode, I interviewed clinical herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt on how we can balance our intellectual studies of medicinal plants with direct experience, and how the best way to do that is by actually putting the plants in our mouths and tasting them.
Just by tasting a plant, you can decipher TONS of information about it, from its medicinal properties, actions, and organ affinities, to its chemistry, quality, and energetics.
Rosalee breaks down the relationship between herbal tastes and energetics, and how this gives you insight into what specific constitutions of people they're best used for.
Be sure to get Rosalee's Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel, an incredible herbal learning tool she developed to help accelerate you along your plant path.
Click here to download it along with a customized video training course!
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ABOUT SAJAH
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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is committed to creating a new paradigm of plant medicine anchored in herbal, medical, and spiritual traditions from around the world. His work integrates the science and spirit of herbal medicine, creating a system that is equally holistic, healing and transformational. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north & south, above & below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.
Sajah's vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physical healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness. He never allopathicallyl focuses on just what a plant is "good for" but rather who the plants are as sentient beings. Sajah's 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 in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his healing art. For more information about his products and programs, visit www.organic-unity.com & www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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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 Unique. |
| 0:26.9 | Hey there, everybody. |
| 0:33.5 | Saja Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and your host here on the Plant Path. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm super excited today because in this week's issue, we have a dear friend of mind, |
| 0:42.2 | an amazing herbalist, Rosalie de la Foy. |
| 0:48.9 | Rosalie and I met a number of years ago through teaching at different herb conferences across the U.S. |
| 0:50.5 | And just after talking with her and hanging out with her, it was just really kind of a breath of fresh air for me to connect with another herbalist that I feel like really sees plants and nature and healing in a really similar way to myself. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's just been a real honor to get to know her over the years. Rosalie is a registered |
| 1:13.7 | clinical herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and the author of a really cool book out there. |
| 1:19.7 | Hopefully you've checked it out called The Alchemy of Herbs. And, you know, one thing that I've |
| 1:24.4 | noticed as I've sat in on Rosalie's classes and watched her |
| 1:27.9 | webinars is just the way that she really integrates traditional approaches and models of |
| 1:34.9 | verbalism for the modern clinical practitioner, as well as having this really great balance |
| 1:41.9 | of really seeing how to not just intellectually learn about medicinal plants, |
| 1:49.5 | but experience them in a way so that we don't just know them in our minds, but that we really |
| 1:55.0 | understand them through our hearts and how to integrate plants into our daily lives. So I'm super stoked to have |
| 2:01.9 | Rosalie here and I just want to say thank you Rosalie for joining us here on the plant path. |
| 2:07.7 | Well thank you, Sage. I've been honestly just looking forward to this so much. As you mentioned, |
| 2:14.6 | we have known each other for a number of years, and we were both herbalists |
| 2:19.6 | when we met, but I also kind of feel like we grew up together as herbalist, because we've had |
| 2:24.2 | somewhat similar paths, and like you said, we also have similar outlooks and thoughts about herbalism. |
| 2:30.5 | So always a pleasure to hang out with you, and I'm really happy to be here. |
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