{"id":62231,"date":"2025-10-22T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62231"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:57:30","slug":"killer-germs-obliterated-by-medicinal-smoke-smudging-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62231","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKiller Germs\u201d Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke (Smudging), Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Smudging.jpg\" alt=\"Smudging\" width=\"1100\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Smudging.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Smudging-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Smudging-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Smudging-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKiller Germs\u201d Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke (Smudging), Study Reveals<\/p>\n<p>First, we uncovered a 2006 review published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology titled \u201cMedicinal smokes,\u201d that looked at single and multi-ingredient herbal and non-herbal remedies administered as smoke from 50 countries across 5 continents. The researchers found, with surprising overlap worldwide, medicinal smoke is mostly used to address the following specific organ systems: \u201cpulmonary (23.5%), neurological (21.8%) and dermatological (8.1%).\u201d They also found that \u201cambient smoke,\u201d which is the type of passively inhaled smoke generated by smudging\/incense, is traditionally believed to be an effective \u201cair purifier.\u201d The review argued that modern medicine should investigate medicinal smoke as a drug delivery system, owing to the following advantages: \u201cThe advantages of smoke-based remedies are rapid delivery to the brain, more efficient absorption by the body and lower costs of production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/sayerji\/p\/killer-germs-obliterated-by-medicinal\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/sayerji\/p\/killer-germs-obliterated-by-medicinal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKiller Germs\u201d Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke (Smudging), Study Reveals First, we uncovered a 2006 review published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology titled \u201cMedicinal smokes,\u201d that looked at single and multi-ingredient herbal and non-herbal remedies administered as smoke from 50 countries across 5 continents. The researchers found, with surprising overlap worldwide, medicinal smoke is mostly used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cKiller Germs\u201d Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke (Smudging), Study Reveals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62233,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions\/62233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}