Blue Sage Essential Oil

May 9, 2011 | Posted in: Herbs & Essential Oils

Source:  Wilderness area of Southern Utah

Distillation:  Steam distilled

Botanical name:  Artemisia tridentata

Note:  Artisan distilled in co-creation

I am super jazzed to offer this unique essential oil distilled on the Aquarius Plateau wilderness of southern Utah.  From a single artisan distiller who lives in co-creation with the plants he harvests, this oil is of a quality and frequency that I have rarely encountered.  The Blue Sage (aka Black Sage) is the plant that grows predominantly in our area, and across much of Utah’s and Arizona’s wild lands.  Because it is distilled at a high elevation, the temperature required to reach the boiling point is lower, resulting in an oil that is less affected by heat exposure, and carries more of the plants true essence in the aroma.  It smells exactly like the heavenly aromatic gift that is released by picking a sagebrush leaf and rubbing it between your fingers.

Local indigenous peoples have used this form of sage for smudging ceremonies; the cleansing of environmental energy and the human energy field.  The distiller says about this oil,  “Indigenous cultures have used (Blue Sage) for coughs, colds, headaches, stomach aches, fevers, internal bleeding and to relieve pain during child birthing. Poultices of wet leaves applied to bruises reduce swelling.

Navajo weavers boiled the leaves and flowers to create a yellow-gold color, used to dye wool. Ute Indians wove the shredded bark into wicks for candles, and they made sacks of woven bark and lined them with the grass”.

This essential oil, in my experience, is more active on the etheric and energetic levels than most.  It has a similarity in frequency to a flower essence, and has already become one of my most endeared oils.

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