mish,
did you look at the link posted on the mullein thread?

home.teleport.com/~howieb/s...moke5.html

i find mint to be interesting

could you just take a chamomile tea bag, cut it open, add a bonder, dry it a little, and smoke it? would that would that work?

white sage is definatly better for all your smoking and insence needs! Yes it is the texture. (smoother than any other sages)
HUGE amount of smoke produced! But not overwhelming...

"hibiscus doesn't work very well"

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't hibiscus a poisonous plant?

Smokin' unknown herbs could cost you! Just check it out first!

Peace

bdl

I love yerba santa. It's tremendously helpful for those with respiratory issues; the junk will get out of your lungs! Mullein is also ok for those with crappy breathing issues. All of them are good in vaporizers as well as full smokes.

there's a tremendous blend i found in a tobacco shop in venice beach, made on a reservation somewhere in California i think. it has damiana, yerba santa, sage and two other herbs.....can't remember the name of it right now. sooooo yummy!

Fantastic mix, it sounds, not too many plants?
I kinda like Damiana (alone). Mullein way heavy on opening trachae etc...

which sage are you all referring to specificly? salvia officiallis or apina (sp) ?

and wat plants would a shaman use?

Mugwort will give you very vivid and colorful dreams if you smoke it. No doubt about it.
On the othe hand, unless it's for a medical condition, I just don't see much sense in putting smoke of any kind in your lungs.

C.

i was given this link somewhere by someone

www.mountainroseherbs.com/

here's Howie's page:

home.teleport.com/~howieb/c...og/co.html

watch out for those pedicularii and skullcaps ...some are pretty potent

my favorite is from this company:

www.holisticbodytherapy.net/stor...ducts

it's called smooth smoke, but i dont see it listed, however i know she still makes it because i saw her at a gift fair last week and i got some

Wow that looks quite amazing... I just finished reading the teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda (minutes ago) and have been fantasizing of living in a Tee Pee and getting back to the earth... and contemplating rather intensely how far removed we are from nature... that will definitely add a nice touch to the current urban lifestyle I am re-integrating to at the moment... Thanks.

yes, catnip is good. that was the last ingredient in those blended native cigarettes, i remember now.....

Rose petals, I was drying them for potpuri (spelling?) but out of curiosity I crumbled one up and put it in my pipe and it has a pleasant flavor that doesn't make me want to cough. I felt relaxed but alert. It was a plesant experiance and I have done it a couple of times in the last couple of days.

Admittedly I was smoking Marijuanna up untill recently but for common sense reasons I have stopped. The high I got from Marijuanna was of less intrest to me than its amazing ability to provide a temporary cure for my insomnia. Sooo.... I want to make a herb blend for the purpose of getting a good nights rest. Lavender is one flower that I know is very relaxing even just to smell so I want it to be a main ingrediant. I know Chamomile is often mixed with lavender in products but I do not know its effects, I assume its calming too? Wild Lettuce soothes and calms anxiety and nervous irritation. I dont realy know what else would be good to add exept maby the rose petals I dried.

Here's a site I came across, www.marijuanaalternatives.com It has legal herb blends for replacing Marijuanna but they also sell many different kinds of individual smokable herbs and blends. www.pfaf.org/index.html (Plants For A Future) is a good place to look up plants.

A quick way to dry your fresh picked herbs is to spread them out on a cookie sheet and stick them in an oven set to 200 with a metal spoon or fork keeping the door from shutting all the way. A gap of 1/4" to 1" is perfect. The poor mans dehydrator. Watch close so you dont burn anything. A square of aluminum (not plastic/nylon!) bug screen would be even better than a cookie sheet.

i've found giving up smoking tobacco one of the hardest things.. i finished my last packet of hand rolled tobacco about two or three weeks ago now and i've been smoking coltsfoot instead.. it's really yummy and good for your lungs.. at least in small quantities.. i'm not sure about how it fares on a long term basis. But whenever i feel the need to smoke something.. that works..

<<< "i have heard that mint, chamomile, oregano, damiana and sage are smokable. Do you smoke them dried? Do they have to be mixed?" >>>

i would like to ask you an honest question.

WHY are you looking into smoking the above mentioned herbs? They do nothing for you, EXCEPT some forms of sage and mint.

Oregano will burn the HELL out of your lungs and throat, trust me i tried it when i was a KID because i had no marijuana and was curious.

and as for Sage, there is one kind that far surpasses every other type of sage known to man (over 1,000+ species)

it's called Salvia divinorum.

it literally means "Sage of the Seers".

bliss,

nishu

what do u mean by unspeakable knowledge?

get this thru your head, author of this stupid thread:

WEED

THAT is THE BEST herb you could possibly smoke, WITHOUT A DOUBT.

what are you doing, trying to be PC or something?
just get with it!
lol

Native American blend called Kinnick Kinnick:

bear berry
mullen
red willow bark
osha root
yerba santa
and I toss in a little "herb" for good measure.
sometimes Salvia Divinorum, though not my favorite "ride".
PUMA

Welcome! Feel free to stick around and contribute to some other threads around here too...

Amen.

What about the smoking of "mushrooms"?

cannabis