The BEST 11 Smokable Herbs to make your own Herbal Tobacco
Smokable herbs can reduce your tobacco addiction
Herbal smoking blends are an excellent solution for many who are struggling daily to consume less tobacco.
Although not a perfect solution - smoking cessation being primarily dependent on the smoker's personal desire and discipline to quit - the detoxification process can be more efficient when undertaken slowly and gradually.
A blend of smokable herbs used as a tobacco substitute is a convenient and harmonious way to reduce or stop smoking completely.
The ideal herbal smoking blends will contain a wide range of herbs you can smoke that have positive effects for the:
- detoxification process
- including soothing smokable herbs to relieve the nervous system
- to remove tobacco toxins from the respiratory system
- to relieve coughing, and, when necessary
- to strengthen the body during detoxification
Because the herbal smoking blends contain legal smokable herbs but do not contain tobacco, nicotine, or other addictive substances, anyone interested in quitting tobacco can simply prepare herbal cigarettes.
Smoking herbal cigarettes possible at any time without fear of addiction and without the exhausting struggle with the craving to smoke, leading to a rapid decline in the need for tobacco.
Gosmokefree! The easiest way to stop smoking is by using smokable herbs as a tobacco substitute.
Don't afraid to let the nicotine go.
Smoking Damiana (Turnera Aphrodisiaca)
Damiana was used by the Aztec Indians for treating impotence. Mexican women used these fragrant leaves when making love to their husbands.
The herb's importance in Mexico was such that it was considered a "national treasure" and it's export as a live plant was forbidden.
Effects of Smoking Damiana
Smoking Damiana leaves leads to a pleasant feeling. Infusing the herb influences the soul and causes a slight emotional high that can last for up to 90 minutes.
A cup of damiana tea before sleep induces a sense of calm prior to love-making and prepares the "field" for pleasant dreams (that may be of an erotic nature during the first seven days of smoking).
The herb may also increase 3-D characteristics and color intensity of dreams.
More intense effects can be experienced by smoking Damiana in a pipe together with drinking an infusion of the herb about an hour before getting into bed with your lover.
What Else Should You Know?
Many people tell of how the herb changed their lives. Besides arousing sexual passion, it has also been proven as a natural anti-depressant and revitalizer.
Smoking Damiana is also useful for gradually reducing the use of tobacco and cannabis among smokers.
People who quit smoking cannabis (and even alcohol), occasionally enjoy smoking or drinking the herb because of the pleasant feelings of calm it induces as well as the enhanced visual effects, without side-effects or a "hangover".
If you want to know more about damiana as a smokable herb for an herbal mix with weed.
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Smoking Chamomile
Chamomile is a smokeable herb too, can be smoked as a tobacco substitute by gradually increasing its dosage while reducing that of tobacco cigarettes.
Because chamomile is used to curb tension and anxiety, the available influences of smoking medicinal herbs may reduce the craving for tobacco until the negative patterns of smoking vanish entirely.
Chamomile can enhance the quality of sleep if consumed as a liquid solution, tea, food, smoked, or steamed.
Chamomile may also be used for relaxation and improving sleep for those suffering from anxiety and tension.
Smoking chamomile and its terpenes
Assist in promoting relaxation and in contending better with pressure and helps with sleeplessness by relaxing the body and mind and enabling a person to fall asleep naturally.
A chamomile infusion is excellent for women during menstruation, with morning sickness and with tension related to menopause.
As stated above, the tea alleviates digestive problems.
By a combined calming action (a slowing of the digestive system muscles and a calming of the intestine wall) and stimulation of digestion, the chamomile can help treat digestive problems such as:
- stomach-ache,
- flatulence,
- upset stomach,
- irritable bowel,
- nausea,
- vomiting
Smoking Mint
Smoking mint leads to improved blood-flow and calmed nerves, as well as a cleansing of the lungs and respiratory tracts – thereby enabling easier breathing. Smoking mint does not cause psychoactive effects.
The health attributes of the mint herb and its infusion: induces perspiration, alleviates flatulence, expectorant, suppresses nausea and vomiting, alleviates digestive problems and stomach-ache, stimulates gall bladder ad liver secretions, and anesthetic.
The smoking mint herb also efficient in treating the common cold, fever, and sinusitis.
By adding mint to your herbal mix for weed you`ll get a new kind of freshness and flavor in your tobacco substitute.
In contrast to the way in which they are perceived by many of us, tobacco detoxification and partial or total cessation of smoking are not supposed to be a complex process of difficult struggle.
A blend of smokable herbs possessing a composition that is suited and agreeable to the smoker's body can do wonders and lead to a marked reduction in cigarette and tobacco smoking, thereby resulting in a significant improvement in his health.
Smoking Lavender
Lavender does not cause noticeable euphoria and can be used as a tobacco substitute however is best not smoked as is.
It assists in reducing restlessness and sleeplessness as well as alleviating headaches, muscular pain, and flatulence.
Smoking Lavender may assist for relaxation and for treating headache and belongs to the anti-septic group of medicinal herbs.
According to natural medicine, it assists in sterilizing wounds and in digestive problems, nasal congestion, flu, muscle spasms, sleeplessness, burns, and other external wounds, and acts as a mosquito deterrent.
Discover more about smoking Lavender in herbal smoking blends.
How is it Used?
A lavender infusion can be prepared by pouring boiling water on 2-3 branches of fresh lavender or on a teaspoon of dry lavender flowers.
After covering the infusion with a plate for 5 minutes, it can then be filtered and consumed.
Smoking Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris)
Warning: Not to be used by Pregnant Women!
Mugwort was used in the ancient world for protection and divination.
The herb was used for alleviating pain and for healing and was known as enabling super-natural powers.
Smoking Mugwort may lead to lucid dreams.
The mugwort was also hung by the entrance to homes in order to banish negative spirits.
It was used by Roman soldiers to fortify themselves on their campaigns and even by mariners and other travelers when their supply of tobacco expired.
Effects of Smoking Mugwort
This smokable herb leads to a euphoric and dream-like feeling. Smoking mugwort at night arouses lucid and colorful dreaming.
Mugwort: What Else Should You Know?
Smoking mugwort assists in alleviating pain and placing it in your shoes alleviate painful foot muscles.
An infusion of the herb can be used for cleansing the liver and encourages a state of lucid dreaming (REM sleep).
Mugwort can also be smoked for reducing the side-effects of smoking cannabis.
Smoking Mullein (Verbascum Thapus)
In ancient cultures, mullein was used as a counter-measure to acts of witchcraft and evil spirits and was even smoked to treat a painful throat and congested lungs.
Effects of Smoking Mullein
Although mullein was not considered as causing a "high", smoking Mullein may nevertheless assist in reducing addiction to and damage from tobacco.
Mullein: What Else Should You Know?
Smoking Mullein may assist in calming cough and other lung-related issues.
It is possible to add Mullein to herbal mix for weed, it enables a smoker to reduce the consumption of tobacco and cannabis, until cessation.
The herb helps to alleviate pain and, in facilitating more relaxed sleep, has a calming influence on coughing, muscle spasms, and seizures.
Mullein also frees up mucus and is beneficial in the treatment of health problems. Its preparation may cause skin irritation.
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Smoking Passionflower (Passiflora Incarnata – P. alata)
The herb was infused into a tea by the Incan Indians and was used for enhancing and refining the influences of hallucination-arousing substances. In large doses, it acts as an inhibitor of the MAO enzyme.
Effects of Smoking Passionflower
Smoking Passionflower in a pipe is a common way, it may lead to results of euphoria, smoking Passionflower herbal cigarettes or herbal smoking blends will lead to more mild experience.
One teaspoon of the herb infused in hot water for 10 minutes will lead to a calming influence and pain relief.
Passionflower - What Else Should You Know?
In contrast to its name, the herb does not arouse passion (and maybe even the opposite), but rather, is used for peaceful and pleasant sleep and as a great substitute for sleeping pills.
Many smokers successfully quit nicotine by smoking Passionflower in herbal cigarettes – some who do so in the morning were able to refrain from smoking tobacco for the entire day.
Smoking Passionflower may also assist in reducing cannabis consumption.
Smoking Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara)
In ancient times, dry coltsfoot leaves were used for preventing tuberculosis.
In the 19th century, it was mixed with tobacco to utilize its positive influence on the lungs while doctors in Ancient Greece recommended smoking coltsfoot to soothe coughing and asthma.
Like other herbs beneficial to the lungs, coltsfoot is today illegal.
Effects of Smoking Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot is friendly on smokers' lungs and serves as an excellent substitute for tobacco in cigarettes.
Coltsfoot - What Else Should You Know?
Smoking Coltsfoot may assist in clearing lung congestion.
In infusions, coltsfoot helps soothe coughing and clearing lung congestion while chewing it helps alleviate throat pain and infection as well as to reduce mucus and even overcome the flu virus.
Smoking Skullcap (Scutellaria Galericulata)
The skullcap was used by the Indian tribes for treating rabies, stimulating menstrual activity, relief for chest pain, for expediting expulsion of the placenta after birth, and in purification ceremonies.
The herb is also excellent for reducing stress, tension, nervousness, and panic attacks.
Although the herb essence is efficient, smoking a skullcap enables its quick introduction into the bloodstream.
Skullcap is good for cleansing the throat and was used as a ceremonial herb for creating visual illusions (although it may be necessary to smoke a relatively large amount to do so).
Smoking Skullcap or drinking an infusion of the herb is excellent before sleep or for an indulging evening at home.
The herb burns quite well. Some prefer to add a skullcap to a herbal mix for weed.
It can be mixed with other herbs such as passionflower, and damiana in order to create flavorsome herbal cigarettes that lead to a calm mood.
Smoking Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
Apart from being one of the most potent healing herbs available to humans, this magical herb is also considered the king of medicinal herbs.
Ancient cultures used sage to heal almost all diseases. The herb enjoyed the status of a sacred herb and was used to symbolize good health and long life.
Around the 10th century, Arab doctors believed that sage possessed the capacity to extend life, a belief that migrated to Europe following the Crusades.
Dry leaves of White Sage are used in a smoking herbal blends for a better mood. The herb encourages calm and stimulates memory.
Smoking sage "clean" may prove to be too potent, and it is therefore often blended with mullein.
White Sage also assists in clearing throat, lung, and sinus congestion.
Smoking Sage herb also helps to thicken the smoking blends and improved burning.
- Alleviates headaches
- Enhances memory and cognitive function
- Acts as an anti-depressant and improves mood
- Alleviates nasal congestion and blockage
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Smoking Green Tea
We are used to regarding green tea as a beverage but recently its smoking has also gained momentum among herbal blends smokers.
Smoking Tea trend began in Vietnam and spread to the rest of the world.
The herbal elements that make up the tea are not damaged and do not lose their quality during the smoking process however the claim is that drinking the tea is more beneficial to the health than smoking it.
The green tea's importance is in its direct influence on these organs which serve as the human body's centers of energy.
Green tea possesses vital attributes and is mainly known for its anti-oxidants.
Smoking Green tea may cool the body and accords it a feeling of limpness, released tension, and other negative feelings.
Infusing the green tea leaves assists in problems related to sleeplessness, tension, lungs, internal infections, detoxification, constipation, and bolstering the immune system.
Smoking Catnip (Nepeta Cataria)
Smoking Catnip with other herbs helps you to consume natural terpenes, that have lots of benefits.
A Catnip herb used for infusion by ancient Europeans prior to the tea herb's arrival from Asia, for treating muscle spasms, headaches, fever, and seizures.
The Chinese used the leaves for relieving chest pain and believed that they cause good mood and happiness.
The catnip as a smokable herb was customarily smoked as a treatment for asthma and bronchitis.
Effects of Smoking Catnip
Smoking catnip leads to a sense of gentle euphoria, the intensity of which varies from person to person.
The herb infusion is excellent for stomach spasms, especially during menstruation.
Catnip: What Else Should You Know?
Because of its cannabis-strengthening qualities, catnip is excellent for an herbal mix with weed and/or tobacco consumption and for alleviating stomach pains and digestive problems.
The herb can also be used for preventing a common cold if consumed immediately upon the appearance of the initial symptoms (such as a sore throat).
It is also excellent for reducing fever, profuse sweating without fever, and alleviating flu-related pains. The herb may also prove effective in cases of nausea.
Share the information in this article with your family and close friends in the process of trying to quit smoking. You are also warmly invited to express your opinion and share your thoughts.
* The above should not be viewed as a recommendation; The information in this article was gathered from multiple sources; Consult your physician/herbalist prior to beginning any treatment.
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