Sacred Incense – Palo Santo Resin – Cut & Sifted Granular Bursera graveolens from Peru, 40 grams

More about Sacred Incense Palo Santo Resin

Palo Santo resin from the “Holy Wood” or “Sacred tree” is a natural aromatic incense resin, used for centuries by the Incas as a spiritual remedy for purifying and cleansing and to get rid of evil spirits, misfortune and calamity. Burning Palo Santo helps to create an overall peaceful and purifying effect. It has a wonderfully calming, soothing fragrance, with a powerful energy.

Palo Santo has both a deep enjoyable wooden aroma as well as a nice warming middle range and a wonderful sweet top range to it. Burning a small piece of resin on a charcoal disc gives a peaceful warm atmosphere and leads you into a pleasant relaxed state of mind.

The resins wide range of enjoyable aromatic notes seems to be uniquely uncharacteristic to any single aromatic component.

History

Palo Santo has been used by the Incas for many generations. Shamans in the Andean mountains still use the wood as part of their curing rituals. In Ayahuasca ceremonies they often use it. Its sacred properties and distinctly enjoyable aroma have only very recently been rediscovered by modern man. Nowadays in the streets of Quito you can be find it when the salesmen shout “Palo Santo, to clean your house of bad energy”, “Brings good luck”.

The essential oil of the Palo Santo tree has many applications in aromatherapy. They still use Palo Santo in Kambo treatments to help expel negative energies and toxins from the body by waving the smoke directly under the face of the patient while under the influence of the venom.