Vitalism Is NOT Just About Herbalism

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The vitalist approach to healing is like an ecosystem, and herbalism is only one aspect of it. At its heart, vitalism is about living in accordance with nature. This means living harmoniously with it and learning to support your body's natural intelligence through nutrition, hydration, rest, and other lifestyle habits. By understanding how vitalism extends into every corner of your life, you can make choices that energize and revitalize you.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

What the vitalist perspective is
Why herbalism is only part of vitalism
What it means to have vitality
Daily vitalist practices that generate energy
The main factors that influence your vitality

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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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Transcript

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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, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:28.6	And in today's post, going to be sharing with you a topic that is really something that I'm really, really passionate about. And that is talking about vitalism and how, you know, it's really common in the herbal world,
0:44.3	you know, when people are looking at kind of vitalist approaches to herbal medicine,
0:49.3	vitalist traditions, that they immediately think that vitalism is really solely something associated with herbalism.
0:57.0	And in this post, I'm here to tell you that it's not, that vitalism is not just about herbal medicine.
1:05.0	But before I get into that, maybe, I mean, I just said the word vitalism like five times,
1:10.0	and some of you might be like, I don't even know what that word means. Like, I mean, I just said the word vitalism like five times. And some of you might be like,
1:11.3	I don't even know what that word means. Like, what is vitalism? So before I jump into how
1:16.6	vitalism is not just about herbalism, I kind of want to define this term a little bit for you all that
1:22.3	might not be familiar with it. So this is, this is, to me, it was one thing that really kind of revolutionized my
1:29.9	approach, not just to herbalism, but as kind of my way of seeing the world around me. And, um,
1:37.1	what vitalism is, is kind of the core principle of it is, is a way of seeing nature and plants and people in the healing process as that there is an
1:50.0	intelligence right that there is an intelligence within the natural world that there is a
1:55.3	within the human body for example there is an intelligence in our organ systems in our cells there there is an intelligence in our organ systems, in our cells. There is even an
2:03.6	intelligence in our symptoms and why we get sick and how we get sick. A really good example of
2:11.5	that that kind of illustrates how a vitalist thinks is thinking about a fever.
2:22.0	So when you get a fever, you know, you get some kind of virus or bacteria or pathogen that gets into your body.
2:24.1	Well, the vital intelligence of the body responds to that by, you know,
2:28.7	sending signals to your immune system and to your higher regulatory centers of your brain
2:34.0	that, you know, closes the pores of the
2:36.3	skin, raises the internal body temperature to that temperature that will denature that
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