Palo Santo: The Holy Tree of Healing, Clarity, and Connection
Palo Santo is a highly regarded, spiritually connecting and healing tree. The name Palo Santo translates from Spanish to “Holy Wood”, a name earned from the wood’s sacred, magical, and therapeutic properties.
Used since ancient times, Palo Santo was a ceremonial staple for the Incas, who burned it to purify energy, ward off negative spirits, and promote spiritual clarity. Today, Shamans and natural healers continue this tradition, using Palo Santo to cleanse one’s energy field and support deep emotional healing.
Palo Santo Essential Oil - Wildcrafted (Bursera Graveolens)
$16.97
Botanical Name: Bursera Graveolens Plant Part: Aged Wood From Fallen Branches Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled Country of Origin: Ecuador Color/Consistency: Clear with Thin Consistency Aroma: Woody, Fresh, Intense, and Slightly Minty Perfumery Note: Middle Palo Santo is also available in… read more
A Commitment to Ethical Harvesting
At Miracle Botanicals, we source our Palo Santo essential oil from artisanal distillers deeply committed to the environment. They only process wood that has fallen naturally, ensuring no living trees are ever harmed. This ethical and responsible harvesting protects the health of the ecosystem and honors the sacred nature of the tree.
Botanical Background & Oil Extraction
Palo Santo essential oil is distilled from the heartwood of the Bursera graveolens tree, native to South America, particularly Ecuador and Peru. This tree is a member of the same botanical family as Frankincense and Myrrh, and shares many of their spiritual and medicinal properties.
The oil is steam distilled after the wood has naturally aged for several years, a process that enhances its aromatic complexity and therapeutic potency. It releases a rich, earthy aroma with refreshing notes of mint and citrus, offering both energetic purification and insect-repelling properties.
Blends Well With:
Bergamot, Bulgarian Rose Otto, Frankincense, Geranium, Hawaiian Sandalwood, Helichrysum, Jasmine, Lavender, Mandarin, Myrrh, Neroli, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang, and Vetiver
Create your own blend, or let our Wisdom & Stillness blend guide you into inner peace.
Aromatherapy & Emotional Wellness
Palo Santo essential oil is revered for its ability to calm the nervous system, ease anxiety, lift depression, and gently release emotional pain. Traditionally used as a spiritual cleanser, the oil works on an energetic level to purify the emotional body and promote feelings of peace, creativity, and clarity.
It is especially powerful when diffused, added to ritual blends, or inhaled directly from the bottle. For those sensitive to its concentrated aroma, we offer it in a soothing blend called Wisdom & Stillness, ideal for deep meditation and inner reflection.
Physical Benefits & Natural Healing
Physically, Palo Santo oil supports the immune and nervous systems, aiding recovery from stress-related ailments. Historically, it has been used to relieve cold and flu symptoms, asthma, and headaches.
It is a potent antioxidant, rich in d-limonene (up to 70%), a compound known to support detoxification and reduce cancer cell growth. Research from Japan even shows it can stimulate liver enzymes that neutralize carcinogens and inhibit tumor development in animals.
On the skin, Palo Santo is helpful for acne, infections, and inflammation, and is often added to massage oils to relieve joint and muscle pain.
Chakra Support & Spiritual Uses
Palo Santo is a high-frequency essential oil that resonates deeply with the body’s energetic system. Known for its ability to purify and elevate, Palo Santo supports multiple chakras—helping to restore harmony, awaken inner wisdom, and ground the spirit. This holy wood has an affinity for five of the seven main chakras, enhancing their vibrational energy and harmony:
🔴 Root Chakra (Muladhara) — Grounding, Safety & StabilityLocated at the base of the spine, the Root Chakra governs your sense of safety, survival, and connection to the Earth. When balanced, you feel secure, grounded, and present.
How Palo Santo Helps:
With its earthy, woody aroma, Palo Santo grounds scattered energy and calms the nervous system, helping you feel stable and supported. Its purifying smoke and oil offer a sense of anchoring—releasing fear, worry, and hyper-vigilance. This is especially helpful in times of stress, trauma recovery, or when you're feeling disconnected from your body or environment.
🟠 Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana) — Creativity, Passion & Emotional Flow
Located below the navel, the Sacral Chakra is the center of emotional expression, pleasure, and creativity.
How Palo Santo Helps:
Palo Santo helps clear emotional blockages and stagnant energy, which can suppress creative flow and intimacy. Its uplifting citrus and minty notes awaken inspiration and help restore joyful movement and expression. It also balances the subtle energies of desire and connection—making it beneficial during creative practices, relationship healing, or sexual energy work.
💚 Heart Chakra (Anahata) — Love, Compassion & Expansion
At the center of the chest, the Heart Chakra bridges the physical and spiritual realms, governing love, compassion, empathy, and openness.
How Palo Santo Helps:
Palo Santo’s high vibration and spiritually cleansing qualities help dissolve emotional wounds and past heartache, inviting in unconditional love. By clearing energetic heaviness from the chest and auric field, it opens the heart to receive and give freely—fostering self-love, compassion for others, and a deeper sense of unity with the world.
🔮 Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) — Intuition, Insight & Inner Vision
Situated between the eyebrows, the Third Eye Chakra is the center of intuition, spiritual insight, and mental clarity.
How Palo Santo Helps:
The calming aroma of Palo Santo quiets mental chatter, allowing you to tune into your inner voice and access subtle realms of awareness. It’s ideal for use before meditation, dreamwork, or any practice requiring intuition or focus. The clarity it provides helps open perception beyond logic—enhancing your connection to spiritual guidance and higher wisdom.
💜 Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) — Spiritual Connection, Unity & Enlightenment
Located at the top of the head, the Crown Chakra governs your connection to the divine, cosmic consciousness, and your higher self.
How Palo Santo Helps:
Palo Santo’s deeply sacred energy elevates the spirit, making it a powerful ally for prayer, meditation, and communion with the divine. It promotes a sense of peace, surrender, and divine trust—supporting practices of stillness, contemplation, and spiritual awakening. Its frequency helps clear energetic blockages that restrict higher understanding, facilitating moments of grace and transcendence.
Whether you're using Palo Santo essential oil in a diffuser, in ritual blends, or through incense smoke, it offers holistic energetic support—helping to align the mind, body, and spirit across all levels of your being.
Ways to Use Palo Santo Essential Oil
- Neat Application:
Apply 1–2 drops to wrists, neck, or temples for stress relief and a grounding aroma.
May be too strong for direct use on facial skin. - Blended with Carrier Oils:
Mix 5–15 drops per 1 tbsp of carrier oil (like argan or CO2 rosehip) for facial, body,
or massage applications. - In the Bath:
Add 8 drops to milk, vodka, or bath salts before dispersing into warm water. - Diffuser Use:
Add ~8 drops to your diffuser to clear energy and uplift the space. - Room Spray:
Blend 15 drops with 2oz of distilled water in a spray bottle to purify your environment.
Palo Santo Incense Sticks — Ancient Ritual in Modern Form
In addition to the essential oil, Palo Santo incense sticks offer a timeless and traditional way to experience the sacred wood’s grounding, clarifying energy.
How to Use Palo Santo Incense Sticks:
Light the tip of the stick until it catches flame.
Allow it to burn for 30 seconds to a minute, then gently blow out the flame—letting the fragrant smoke rise.
Move the stick around your space (or your body) with intention to clear energy, set a sacred atmosphere, or deepen your meditation.
When finished, extinguish the ember in a fire-safe dish or bowl filled with sand.
Use it to bless your space, elevate your yoga or meditation practice, or simply relax into a moment of stillness. As always, our incense sticks are crafted with reverence—sourced only from naturally fallen Palo Santo wood, harvested with sustainability and spirit in mind.
