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Planets & cycles · Plants & herbs · Video research · The Sun · Sajah Popham · Hawthorn · Angelica · Ashwagandha · St John's wort

The Sun's herbs: heart, warmth, vitality and spirit

In medical astrology the Sun rules the heart and the vital force, and Sajah Popham matches its four sides with four herbs: hawthorn for the heart, angelica for warmth, ashwagandha for vitality and St John's wort for the spirit. The astrology is the old one — Lilly in 1647 gave the Sun “the Heart, the Brain and right Eye, and vitall Spirit”. The evidence behind the herbs runs from strong to none: St John's wort matches antidepressants for mild to moderate depression; hawthorn eases heart-failure symptoms without saving lives; ashwagandha has small trials for stress and sleep; angelica has no trial of its own.

1647 Lilly: the Sun “governeth the Heart, the Brain and right Eye, and vitall Spirit”

9 min read · 12 sources (9 peer-reviewed)

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Angelica, the warming bitter

Sajah Popham's herb of the Sun's warmth is garden angelica: a warming, fennel-like aromatic bitter that he says lights a fire in the gut, then sends warmth and blood out to the hands, feet, head, lungs and uterus. Culpeper put it “under the Sun in Leo”. It has no trial of its own: it has been tested only as one of nine herbs in Iberogast, which helped indigestion. Herbal references accept it for indigestion by long use. Two cautions the lesson leaves out: its root contains sun-sensitising compounds, and it is avoided in pregnancy.

0 trials of angelica on its own, for any use, that we could find

7 min read · 6 sources (2 peer-reviewed)

The videos

Each one is summarised and fact-checked in its entry, with every claim timed to the video.

• The Sun's herbs The Plant Path with Sajah Popham · 49 min · checked in “The Sun's herbs: heart, warmth, vitality and spirit” Read the summary → YouTube ↗
• Angelica for warmth: the Sun's herbs The Plant Path with Sajah Popham · 9 min · checked in “Angelica, the warming bitter” Read the summary → YouTube ↗

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