Sacred Incense - Palo Santo

Wood, Cut & Sifted, Fine, 60 Ml, 15 Gr from Peru (SKU 3844)

Palo Santo is used for purifying and cleansing and to get rid of evil spirits, misfortune and calamity. This is excellent quality resinous wood, cut and sifted into a very fine-grained texture, ideal for subtle application of this powerful incense on charcoal tablets, or as an ingredient in your personal blends.

Packed in 60 ml clear plastic pots containing 15 grams cut & sifted Palo Santo wood grains.



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

Our "Lambayeque" Palo Santo is harvested under government supervision by the native people from the area of Lambayeque, Olmos, Peru. These are protected, very old trees from which the windfall is collected from the ground and considered sacred by the indigenous peoples for many generations.

Our "Corrales" wood comes from a naturally fallen tree from the community of San Francisco, located in Corrales Tumbes district of Peru, close to the border with Ecuador. Sourced by a dear shaman friend of ours, the tree is believed by the locals to be around 110 years old. Before harvesting there was a ceremony to Pachamama, giving acknowledgement, thanks and blessings to her. It was then moved and prepared according to ancestral custom, with the wood having contact with the earth for as long as possible and then transferred to clean cotton. We are honoured to have been given access to the whole tree, which has produced an abundance of particularly special aromatic sticks, logs, shavings and powder. For sustainability our friends and their family are constantly planting and nurturing young Bursera saplings and ensuring they can reach maturity. 

Light the end of a Palo Santo stick, allow the flame to burn for a moment, and blow out the flame. Alternatively you can burn the powdered or shredded wood on charcoal discs.

Sacred Incenses. We offer a unique collection of the rarest plants that are used as an incense for ceremonial purposes or healing. A carefully selected range of the finest incense herbs, woods, resins and incense mixtures from around the world.

Our packaging is small, and the textures of our incenses and blends are very fine. They come in the form of powder, fine grained cut and sifted grains of leaves, flowers, wood or resin. This fine-ness allows for precise blending of your personal mixtures, and allows for subtle application in a small and dedicated setting. This collection offers a great palette of fragrances to create a beautiful setting for an inner journey or ceremony.

Other names: Palo de la vida o Santo, Sacred Wood, Holy wood, St. Anthony`s wood, Palosanto, Mallka Waki.

Palo Santo has been used by the Incas for generations. Shamans in the Andean mountains still use Palo Santo as part of their curing rituals. It is often used in Ayahuasca ceremonies. Its sacred properties and distinctly enjoyable aroma have only very recently been rediscovered by modern man. Nowadays Palo Santo can be found in the streets of Quito where the salesmen shout "Palo Santo, to clean your house of bad energy", "Palo Santo for good luck". The essential oil of the Palo Santo tree has many applications in aromatherapy. Palo Santo has been and is now wideliy used 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.

Bursera graveolens belongs to the Burseraceae (Copal family) and inhabits the South American Gran Chaco region (northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and the Brazilian Mato Grosso). It is also common on the coast of Ecuador. It is related to the Frankincense (Boswellia carteri) tree. The Palo Santo tree has no branches on the lower part of the trunk, and within a radius of several yards not a leaf or a blade of grass will grow. It is a soft, light wood, usually found near the river banks, and is the favorite haunt of colonies of the Brazilian fire ant, a vicious insect with an extremely painful bite. Touch the tree, and armies of these ants rush out from holes in the trunk eager to attack, even dropping from branches above on to the trespasser.

Aged heartwood is rich in essential oils such as limonene and alpha-pinene.

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. Palo Santos wide range of enjoyable aromatic notes seems to be uniquely uncharacteristic to any single aromatic component. Burning a small piece of wood gives a peaceful warm atmosphere and leads you into a pleasant relaxed state of mind.

For those who love to experiment with the alchemy of combined scents, Palo Santo goes very well with the following incenses: Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata), White Sage (Salvia apiana) and Copal (Dacryoides peruviana).

This is a natural product, used as incense or in perfumery, or as an ingredient of incense and other perfumery or potpourri preparations.
Some incense plants or products may have some history of other folklore purposes, but we offer this product for its use as incense. Not food grade, not for consumption.

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