Something steeming! Smoked herbs!
Getting the energies clear is the most important thing - sometimes it is nice to get help from herbs... ambrosia artemisiifolia is one of my favourite herbs for smoking. mugwort is the English name and there is so much meaning - but this will be another post...
Do the smoking whenever it feels like cleaning out ... it will always work!
In this mixture are many other herbs - again, this will be another post :-)
Smoking as in inhaling, or smoking as in smudging? (which is what it looks like you're doing here) Mugwort grows wild down south. So does white sage, sacred to the natives. (for smudging)
then it should be smudging - I always used smudge in a sense of getting something dirty, like when the kids don't eat properly and smudge their clothes... I sometimes use White Sage as well, but it doesn't grow here, so I have to buy it - often called "Indianer-Salbei" in German :-) Mugwort and Verbena officinalis were/are the sacred ones here...
Smudge has both meanings.
I have this great little resident dictionary from Word Web on my computer. It's resident so you can be offline to use it. You point at the word and press CTRL-right click and it pops up with the definitions. I've used it for years since I'm a very bad speller. The thesaurus feature also gives me lots of different words to make my copy less repetitive. Best of all it's FREE!
I need to get back into my wild herb recognition studies. I've been spending all my time building on my cabin and have done little else. Down south the rainy season is about to begin and lots of things will be springing up.
this dictionary sounds great - I will check it out tonight! Looking forward to your wild herb posts :-) Do you have a cabin down south as well?
Do you usually have essential oils in this device? Looks interesting
No, it is only for smudging dried herbs... (just learned from @citizenzero that the German räuchern in this case translates to smudging). It's hard to see, but underneath the herbs is a metal-net (like in a kitchen sieve), for essential oils I have a closed claybowl which is then heated over a little candle. I prefer the smudging - and with this devise, I can vary between "heavy smudging with the herbs really starting to create smoke", or just heating them so the smell of the herbs fills the house.... it might be an idea to do a post on this devise in detail :-) Cheers from the Seven Mountains in Germany
Yes! That would be a great post. I haven't seen a device like that before. I just use a bundle and burn it. But like the idea of being able to control the intensity.
I was so happy when I found this - it works so much better than the bundle! Will make sure to get some pictures together today and write a post about it tonight!
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did a post on it... https://steemit.com/spirituality/@jkiw/smuding-and-smoking-may-it-steem
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