Healingifts incenses are mostly imported from INDIA and the high Himalayan Mountains. Flower essences from the Himalayan Mountains are highly energetic. Incense made with natural fragrances based upon herbs,flowers and essential oils. Rolled by hand in the traditional way. Incense is an easy way to bring aromatherapy into yourlife. Using incense made with essential oils can provide emotional strength, support and comfort. Use to relax, meditate and to be inspired !

Burning incense is an ancient way of gaining access to the soul and power of plants, for spiritual, ceremonial and magic use. Incense means consecrated smoke, or smoke offering. The sacred smoke has been used in most peoples' spiritual and shamanic healing traditions, including the North European. Through thousands of years of cooperating with the innermost nature of plants, wise women and men have come to know that certain types of plants carry certain definite qualities, and have certain effects when used as incense. No matter if you learn from traditional Native Americans, European peasants of old, or Siberian shamans, they will all tell you that the smoke of some plants purifies and cleans spiritually, others will invoke spirits and healing powers, others again will carry your prayers further to the Universe, some are good for calling balance and harmony. The beautiful common earth wisdom is that these people on continents far apart agree on which plants are good for which purpose. preparing and purifying Used in the beginning of your shamanic or ritual work, the fragrant smoke will help to clear a sacred space and open the doors in your soul to the spirit world. The plants used for this are generally the same as for purifying. You may purify your magic tools and yourself before important spiritual work in order to become clear.

The other purpose for cleansing or purifying with smoke is to get rid of unwanted spirits, illness, bad energy and the likes. One can clean a room, a person, or objects after heavy healing work or after a bad argument to get rid of the last feelings of misery. In Danish peasant tradition the whole house and all the dark corners were smoked thoroughly with wormwood after the long, hard winter 1. When you clean a room or house remember to leave a window opened so that the unwanted energy can slip away, riding on the smoke. The following herbs have been used primarily for cleaning:

Cedar and Juniper family. There are many local varieties of these, and often confusion about their identity. This doesn't matter so much, since they completely overlap in use. In Tuva, Siberia, juniper is always burned before anything sacred happens.

Wormwood and Sagebrush (Artemisia absinticum and A. tridentata) as well as sea wormwood (A. maritima) and mugwort (A. vulgaris). Use leaves and young flowers, avoid twigs. This whole Artemisia family is traditionally used for spirit work. They grow in temperate climates. As the name indicates these herbs are dedicated to Artemis, the Greek name for the Goddess of the Moon and the Wild Animals. The American Artemisia named sagebrush is sometimes even called 'sage' for short. This has created much confusion in smudging circles, because true sage (Salvia), is also used for purifying smudge. Let's get it straight that "sagebrush" is an Artemisia, it is not a member of the sage family, and the two are very different in body and personality. Local varieties of sagebrush are A. tridentata, A. frigida and A. California, and they grow abundantly on depleted soil. Sage family (Salvia). The name Salvia comes from Latin salvus (health). Use leaves picked before the plant flowers. The more sun the plants gets, the better and stronger it will be. In my opinion, Denmark is the northernmost area for growing sage for incense. Apart from the garden sage (S. officinalis) common to Europe, another subspecies of true sage, called white sage (S. Apiana), grows only in the southwest USA, where it is popular for smudging.

The smoke of these herbs is used to invoke and call desired spirits and powers, to attract harmony, create beauty and sweetness; (the word perfume comes from the Latin par fumare; through smoke). They are also used to give thanks and send prayers. In Black Elk's account of the seven rites of the Oglala Sioux, Slow Buffalo placed sweetgrass on the coal, and then said: "Grandfather, Wakan-Tanka, I offer to You Your sacred herb....I am going to make smoke which will penetrate the heavens, reaching even to our grandfather, Wakan-Tanka; it will spread over the whole universe, touching all things!"

Woodruff (Galium odoratum) Grows in leafy forests, for example beech. Use the whole herb picked before the tiny flowers open. Traditionally woodruff is harvested up until Beltane, when its power culminates. Local names for woodruff like Kiss-me-quick (Dorset), and Sweethearts (Somerset) attest to its ability to bring sweetness and binding spells, while the Berwickshire name 'sweet-grass' shows the close spirit relationship with its namesakes in North America and Lapland.

Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata). Grows and is used in northern North America and Northern Scandinavia 2. In both places the dried grass is commonly braided together for incense. With the plains Indians, sweetgrass was very sacred and used for almost all purposes, also purifying. In sweetgrass and woodruff, (as well as in others like Yellow Bedstraw), the common power and sweetness is carried by the substance coumarin, which has the characteristic sweet scent and the physiological effect of relaxing and lifting the spirit.