What is Palo Santo and everything you need to know about this holy wood?

Over the last few decades, the Palo Santo tree has gained a lot of popularity in the business area; however, the use of this scented wood originated many centuries ago, when ancient Latin American inhabitants took the most out of the excellent healing properties by doing spiritual ceremonies to protect themselves.

How can it be so successful nowadays? Palo Alto is known for being an infallible product for getting rid of bad energies. This is achieved by burning the wood as an incense, and it releases a useful scent to clean everything bad, unlock minds, and awaken creativity to the fullest and even reduce high-stress levels. 

What the Palo Alto is

The Palo Alto is a natural incense known for having a warm scent with both citric and sweet characteristics. It comes from a 20-meter high tree that originated in South America, especially in countries such as Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia. As we stated before, it has an ancient use, it has the power of attracting good luck.

The Palo Alto tree

Even though the most common use of The Palo Alto tree involves shooing away bad energies, it’s important to know that its wood, rind, and resin are used to build houses, furniture, and even vases. For this reason, the Palo Alto wood is recognized as one of the heaviest and most resistant in the world. 

Palo Alto tree description

It’s a tree with tortuous branches, a grey rind, pubescent stems, opposite leaves from 0, 6 to 1, 2 centimeters long, hermaphrodite flowers.  Capsuled fruit, dark purple, divided into 4 deep lobes, each one with several seeds.

 Palo Alto tree main characteristics

• Species distribution

This tree grows in South America, specifically over Ecuador’s coast, Peru’s north coast, and the Gran Charco region, which is part of Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay’s north. If we only talk about Peru, the tree’s distribution extends from Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, to Cajamarca, especially in dry forests.

When it comes to its ground’s altitude distribution, part of it starts from the sea level to 1.300 meters. 

•  Botanic description

Palo Alto’s growth will mainly depend on environmental characteristics and the quality of the place. Just like every other tree, it requires favorable conditions to be able to develop its maximum height. As we stated earlier, it can be 20 meters tall. The Palo Alto log can be 80 centimeters long and it can vary between brownish-grey, ash-colored, and grey tones.  

Its shape tends to be regular. 

Palo Santo’s origin 

The ceremonial leaders from South American indigenous communities known as “Chamanes”, knew what Palo Santo was. This is why they used it to purify their lands, and the smoke that came out of it was utilized to burn the tree’s wood. It possesses a lot of power, and at present time, energetic cleansing can’t be mentioned without referring to this ancestral tree’s properties. 

Ancient South American natives didn’t have the intention of chopping down the Palo Alto Tree just to benefit from it. They waited for it to die naturally, and they let it rest even a decade just to take the oils. Natives were respectful of the process, and by doing this, they felt ready to initiate their rituals and ceremonies.

The Palo alto was applied both in spiritual activities done regularly to clean spaces, attract good luck and improve mood. However, it was used on special occasions like couple’s unions and to protect areas where sacred fireworks were ignited. 

Palo Alto’s properties

Many reports were elaborated by specialists through time to test the holy wood or Palo Alto’s properties. Next up, we will show you the main tranquilizing and healing properties of this tree:

• In many meditation and relaxation sessions, the rooms are aromatized with Palo Santo. To do this, all that needs to be done is dilute a few drops. It also helps fight asthma and different allergies. 
• Palo Santo’s Wood is frequently used to make infusions that help fight bronchial illnesses.
• The wood is put onto a process called “Distillation”, and because of this, an essential oil can be obtained. This oil can be used differently, and its classic citric scent, helps combat stress, even neuralgia.
• Drops of the essential oil help improve blood flow. On the other hand, the liquid can be used to reduce arthritis chronic symptoms. The best way to do this will be a massage.
• Scented smokes are made from Palo Santo, and all of the aromatized and energized functions will help scare mosquitoes away.  

Palo Santo’s applications as an incense

To use it as an incense, a piece of wood must be ignited, spreading the smoke all over the place. Once this is done, you have to put the remaining wood in a vase and let the fire go out by itself, it will help to fully eradicate bad energies.

When to use Palo Santo as an incense?

Every place where many people live tends to accumulate bad energy in time, what happens is that we don’t realize it until we start identifying that things are not happening the way they should, directly affecting us.

The most common problems, which should be clear warning signs to start using Palo Alto as incense are headaches, sleeping problems, inexplicable messes around the house, and lack of energy to do daily chores. This last thing is due to the bad energy that is heavily attached to the house, and it has a direct influence on the people that live in it. 

What causes bad energies in a determined space? 

Some people carry bad energy and they can make an environment overload, but there are scenarios in which we cause this situation ourselves.

• The place was the scene of a bad situation, such as a fatal accident.
• The place is left alone for a few hours, due to the residents being at work or just because it’s used as an office for a determined amount of time. 
• The place is filled with antique stuff such as furniture, the same that have been accumulated in time, not letting the energy flow normally. 
• The place changes owners without having done an energetic cleanse before. 

Some people pray while they spray the citric scent around the house, workplace, or any other place they want to eliminate bad energies from. Next up, we are going to share some that you can repeat while the smoke is sprayed on the environment.

Prayer 1:

Let your hands be purified, so they can create beautiful things.

Let your feet be purified, so they take you somewhere else you need to be.

Let your heart be purified, so it can receive clear messages.

Let your throat be purified, so that you can speak right when words are needed.

Let your eyes be lightened, so they can see the signs and the wonders of the world.

Let this space and this person be purified by the smoke of these fragrant plants. 

Prayer 2:

“I, (the name of the person is said),

Pray to God Almighty Father,

To the Holy Spirit and the Divine Providence,

For any bad energy to disappear from my life,

And for me to have better health, energy

And vitality.

For love, work, and well-being to accompany me

For the rest of my days.

I affirm it and hope for it,

For the power of Father God,

Amen

Inkaforest, specialists within forestry and mineral species exporting and processing 

Inkaforest offers forestry and mineral products that are part of an ancestral legacy for humanity. They obtain the best Palo Alto’s wood selection with the help of ancestral communities with influences within dry tropical forests and high Andeans zones of Peru. Because of this, it becomes the best option for those who are looking for these products. 

The Palo Alto wood they work on and they process, comes from the north of our country. The recollection is completely sustainable since they process the wood that has to reach the ending of its life cycle and it has become natural wood, which can guarantee its quality.  

Just like it was done by ancient indigenous communities, always respecting the sacred tree’s life.

The products that they commercialize these days that are related to this sacred wood are Palo Santo Stick, Handmade Palo Santo Stick, Palo Santo oil, Powdered Palo Santo, Palo Santo Chips, Palo Santo Wood Chips, Palo Santo’s log, Box of Palo Alto’s incenses, Cone-shaped Palo Santo incense, Cylindrical-shaped Palo Santo incense.

And the best part is that they offer their private brand services to entrepreneurs, meaning that they are willing to work with an already established design or to provide the support they need throughout a new creation process.

Now that you know what Palo Santo is, don’t hesitate to use it to eradicate bad energies from your house, office, and any other place where you spend the most of your life in. And if you are planning on creating an undertaking, make sure you get in touch with Inkaforest.

They do not hesitate in sharing their talent and ancestral knowledge to obtain their client’s satisfaction.  

For the power of Father God,