I noticed that the White Sage was $14.25 a pound and told Barb and she told me to order two pounds of it. I usually gather my own Cedar but it's hard to find the aromatic White, Yellow, or Black Cedar here, usually growing in someone's yard as it's not native, so I ordered a pound of theirs to see what it's like.
Cost me $44.25 for looking up that link for you Keno.
But that's cheap for White Sage! I thought it was cheap at $2.00 more a pound!
The local White Sage that we have managed to grow enough of for ourselves for a year the last couple of years doesn't smell as sweet when burning and the leaves aren't as large or fleshy as the Western or Ceremonial White Sage from Crazy Crow.
We use it for Smoking people off before they go into the Lodge and then we usually give the bundle we use in the Lodge to an honored guest.
It can be dried and used for sending Smoke or for making a medicinal tea.
There was a Sweat a few days after the day I had my first back surgery. My brother Brutus brought me a glass of the tea/water the fresh picked Sage had soaked in for using on the hot rocks, and the bundle of Sage used in the Lodge. I couldn't leave the hospital until I went to the bathroom on my own. The tea fixed that for me the very next day.
Brutus put the Sage bundle under my bed and wanted me too leave it there overnight but I couldn't, it was too strong!!!!
It was absolutely the strongest smelling Sage that I have ever smelled before or since. The smell was wafting out from under my bed out into the room and was starting down the hall!
I had Barb bring it home with her.
If I'd known then what I learned later I would have left it there and then brought it home with me when I was released. If they had continued to complain about the smell I could've just told them it was an ndn thing and not too mess with it, or me.
At least that way they would've kept my door shut all the time and I would've had a private, semi-private room.
