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Utilizing a smudging tool
belongs to many Native American
traditions. The burning of herbal
treatments for emotional, psychic, and
spiritual purification can also be common
practice among many religious, healing,
and spiritual groups. The ritual of sage
smudging can be explained as
"spiritual home cleaning". In
Theoretically, the smoke attaches itself
to negative energy and when the smoke
clears it attaches to the negative energy
by absorbing it, delivering it into
another space where it will likely be
regenerated into positive energy. Sage
can be used like incense its foliage is
burned and can create a aromatic smoke.
White sage can also be considered ideal
like a ceremonial smudge or home
purification.
Our sage is used
as herbal treatments that originated from
the Asia and other areas. Sage continues
to be grown in Central Europe since the
Dark Ages. However the sage we sale in
Native to California and grown in
abundance and packaged and resold once
dried. The title Salvia derives in the
Latin 'salveo', meaning 'to heal'. Indeed
this plant is extremely regarded as for
it's healing characteristics. An old
proverb states, 'Why should a guy die
that has sage in the garden?' The
traditional Greeks used sage internal
consumption to treat common stomach
problems and bites from snakes.
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