Palo Santo - Holy Wood, Benefits, and Uses - Kalyan Botanicals

Palo Santo is revered as a sacred tree people feel to be magical. Palo Santo wood is known for its medicinal benefits and inviting mysterious sweet, woodsy, citrus and slight mint aroma enticing scent. The Spaniards named it Palo Santo, which translates into Holy Wood and The Wood of the Saints.

Coveted for its spiritual and healing benefits. It’s said to have the power to purify living spaces and cleansing negative energy from the environment. Adherents feel it increases energy, calms nerves, attracts good things, is a delight to the senses and soul while delivering a feeling of joy and well-being. Ecuadorian lore attributes Palo Santo Incense Sticks with mystical abilities to relieve tension, help one get into a meditative-state, balance energies and transmute emotions. Palo Santo is widely used in yoga, reiki and aromatherapy practices.

 History of Palo Santo:

Palo Santo has a rich history and has been used for centuries. It’s cherished by various cultures and nations due to the historic importance of its use in religious traditions. Ancient Incan rituals embraced the smoke burned during spiritual ceremonies as a remedy for healing the body, spiritual cleansing and purifying.

When Spanish explorers arrived early 1500s, they became aware of the health benefits of Palo Santo. It was being used by the indigenous people for antibacterial, anti-inflammatory properties, and its ability to treat respiratory and other ailments.

Ingredients Palo Santo:

Research on Palo Santo indicates ingredients in Palo Santo essential oil can inhibit elastase enzyme, which is responsible for breaking down the elastin in skin. During the aging process elastin in skin begins to break down, causing wrinkles and sagging. Palo Santo is presumed to help tighten up skin while its other antioxidants can stimulate growth of new skin cells and minimize signs of aging. It’s used to help capture a more youthful appearance, reduce and diminish age spots, blemishes and other signs of getting old.

A unique fact is Palo Santo wood is cut only from naturally dead trees or branches. Living Palo Santo Trees that are freshly cut, won’t produce its distinctive aroma and won’t retain its special properties. Palo Santo trees needs to die on its own, then dry for a minimum of four years, which enables its mystical internal sap to crystalize.

Shamans, Mystics and others believe Palo Santo is an aphrodisiac due to its physical and spiritual cleansing properties.

Sexologists have been known to recommend it to give and receive love and reduce tensions between committed people. It’s believed to enhance pleasurable, intimate, spiritual and loving moments together.

Spiritual Properties:

Palo Santo is coveted for its spiritual properties and ability to increase concentration, calm your soul and provide a state of peace and serenity. It’s said to evoke ancestral and spiritual forces with relative ease.

Kalyan Botanicals supports a 100% eco-friendly and sustainable restoration of the dry forests of Palo Santo in Manabí-Ecuador native communities. Our Palo Santo products are procured without harming any Palo Santo Trees. We only process wood that has been found to have died naturally in the forest to retain its special properties. Revenue from each Palo Santo client order goes to planting more Palo Santo Trees for future generations. As of 2022, 11,000 trees have been reforested! We are proud to be affiliated with an ethical robust program of sustainable management that is friendly to the environment with a vibrant reforestation action plan.

Benefits of Burning Palo Santo:

Consider lighting a stick of Palo Santo to start or end your day, with intention and purpose while saying or thinking positive thoughts and affirmations. This practice can enhance your days with beautiful, mindful experiences.

Palo Santo creates an inviting smoke used during space energy clearing ceremonies and is believed to spark creativity, enhance good fortune and clear away evil spirits and negativity. Many people use Palo Santo while meditating and to connect with their inner vibration.

How to Use:

By burning one end of your Palo Santo Stick, you can help balance your energy, harmonize your environment leading to a state of peace and harmony.

Light the end of your Palo Santo stick and let the fire form. Keep the flame burning for a few seconds then extinguish the flame and let the holy smoke emanate and spread the aroma and sweetness in the area you desire.

With the stick is in hand, slowly surround your body and color throughout your space. At this time you can say mindful mantras, affirmations and spread some around your auric field and points of your Chakras.

After using your Palo Santo stick leave it in a place where it goes out and will not burn. Always burn the same side of the stick.

Kalyan Botanicals uses Palo Santo in many of its products including Kalyan CBD Massage Cream, Kalyan Pain Relief Cream and the Kalyan Massage Oils available @ https://kalyanbotanicals.com