Vitalism and Learning From Nature

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you come across the idea of allopathic herbalism? This approach often highlights specific symptoms and conditions that certain herbs are "good for." However, it has a limitation: it doesn't address the root causes of diseases.

To achieve profound healing, it's crucial to go beyond simply matching herbs with symptoms. Embracing the traditional vitalist herbalism philosophy lets you explore the underlying energies beneath disease symptoms. This empowers you to choose herbs confidently, ensuring they consistently bring about lasting and effective healing results.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

Ways to avoid the trap of allopathic herbalism
How to heal by working with your body instead of against it
Why you shouldn't ignore symptoms and what they're trying to tell you
How to deepen your connection with nature and uncover the meaning behind herbs, changing seasons, and the weather

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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.
0:23.6	Hey there, everybody.
0:25.6	Saja Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:29.6	And welcome back to the Plant Path.
0:31.6	And I've got an episode here talking about something that I think is really, really, really important here
0:38.6	in modern herbal medicine and just continuing to share kind of some of the foundational
0:45.1	perspectives and orientations that we have here at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:51.0	And today talking about the concept and practice of vitalism.
0:56.8	And what I see as being the importance of being able to learn directly from nature and practice
1:05.1	in accordance with how nature functions.
1:09.5	And, you know, when I say that, it's really easy for people to think
1:12.2	of nature as like the mountains and the forests and the fields and the meadows and like, you know,
1:18.1	the nature out there. And that's a part of it for sure. But I'm also talking about the nature in here,
1:24.1	like the nature that is your body.
1:35.2	You know, traditional systems of verbal medicine have a way of understanding people that is really based on us being a microcosm of the natural world, that we aren't like in the modern kind of more scientific reductionistic model, kind of we see the body as like a machine, like a bunch of gear, like biochemical gears.
1:53.8	Whereas, you know, traditionally the body is seen as a reflection of the earth, right?
2:00.0	That we have the mountains are in our bones and the rivers are flowing through our bloodstream
2:06.8	and our kidneys and the ocean is in our lymphatic system and, you know, the mist is in our lungs.
2:14.7	And, right, there's all these different ways of seeing our body as a reflection
2:20.9	of nature and this is really what I'm talking about when I'm looking at the the concept and
2:28.1	principles of vitalism and and learning from nature and to me this is a central concept in the practice of truly holistic herbal medicine.
2:39.8	So, you know, I think one of the first kind of goals that we have as herbalists or maybe not goals,
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