Organic Palo Azul (Shredded, Cut) 8oz

  62 grams lasts 27 days for one person. We carry premium quality, allowing the bark sticks to be used 3/4 times each.     Palo Azul is native to Mexico and South America and can be found in Arizona and New Mexico. The tree bark and leaves have been used for hundreds of years by herbalists and healers in Mexico. Palo Azul is also called Palo Dulce, Kidney Wood, or Blue Stick, and its scientific name is Eysenhardtia polystachya.  Chunks of wood or branches with leaves are steeped in cold water or boiled in hot water to make tea. When the pieces of wood are soaked in water for a few hours, they give the water a blue color (hence one of the common names for the plant, “blue stick”). This color can later change to a reddish or amber tone, depending on the incidence of light. Spanish doctors of the sixteenth century were the first Europeans to notice the intense fluorescent blue coloration of this plant. This interesting phenomenon is due to a novel four-ring chemical compound known as tet