Palo Santo Ceremonial Smudge Incense

Description

Palo Santo Ceremonial Smudge Incense

A brand new product from Peru, 100% pure ground Palo Santo and water ceremonial grade smudge incense. This gorgeous smudge incense generates much more smoke than the wood stick, making it perfect for ceremony, smudging and sacred space. You can also use it in the home to fill your house with the beautiful natural scent of Palo Santo holy wood. Each thick stick burns for approximately 1.5 hours. A pack contains 5 sticks. Packaged exclusively for Mystic Crystals.

As with our Palo Santo wood sticks, this ceremonial smudge incense is 100% authentic and natural. It is sustainably harvested from fallen wood and produced by a small Peruvian community.

Watch our video of Shaz lighting our first stick when they arrived HERE.

 

USES:

This powerful tree medicine is used ceremonially for:

• Spiritual purification
• Energy cleansing
• Healing
• Protection
• Blessings
• Meditation

 

In addition, the heady scent can activate the third eye chakra while grounding the root chakra. This brings a deep connection to mother earth and father sky.

It is also said to help with physical healing, easing symptoms of colds, coughs, stress, headaches, anxiety and inflammation.

 

PLANT INFORMATION

Bursera graveolens, known in Spanish as palo santo (meaning ‘holy wood’), is a sacred wild tree native to South America. It is part of the same family (Burseraceae) as Frankincense and Myrrh. Palo Santo has been used in indigenous rituals and ceremonies for centuries by shamans and medicine people of the land, including the Incas and people of the Andes.

ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE HARVEST OF PALO SANTO HOLY WOOD

The oil in Palo Santo wood takes a very long time to develop! The trees themselves grow for decades.

When a dead branch falls from the tree, it rests on the forest floor for 5 to 8 years while the resin slowly accumulates and matures. Only then can the aged heartwood with its high quality oil be harvested and hand cut into the traditional incense sticks.

Trees that are cut down and harvested alive do not, as a result, develop the rich scent of the resinous sacred oil.

 

Always ensure that you are purchasing Palo Santo that is 100% authentic and natural, sustainably harvested from fallen wood. 

While the tree is currently not endangered (it’s listed as stable and of least concern on IUCN Red List), it could become so without careful management.