To begin: Herbal Cigarettes

Beginning at an elementary age and continuing to this day I have suffered from chronic sinus headaches for a variety of reasons.  Not just headaches, but skull-crushing wrecking balls of ferocity hurled at the two-inch space from the bridge of my nose to my brow bone.  A migraine, of sorts.  To this day, I have tried nearly every allergy/sinus/headache medicine sold over the counter plus a few alternative medicines.  In high school, my father installed an aromatherapy burner-type-thing in my room stocked with essential oils to soothe my head.  But me being me and absolutely adverse to any brainchild my father would have the gall to conceive, rejected this method and complained about the overwhelming odor of lavender.

 

Now, I’m twenty and a borderline trendy hippie college student (I said borderline; everyone just calm down) and would like to start a fragrant herbal garden in my kitchen: fully stocked with chamomile, lavender, jasmine, lemon balm, scented geraniums, and rosemary.  For starters. Unfortunately, I’m still living and working at home for the summer and won’t fly back to the university and my apartment until around mid-August.  So, until then, I’ll just have to plan and plan and twiddle my thumbs. 

 

During some thumb twiddling time last night, I wondered what it might be like to smoke herbs (this spawning from a craving for both a cigarette and a more controversial herb).  Through countless google searches -herbal cigarette, herb and smoke, smoke chamomile, smoke jasmine, chamomile cigarett, etc - I’d concluded that one COULD smoke herbs and it was worth a try.  And so I grasped the only herbs I had on hand – dried ones from herbal tea. 

 

I am stupid.

 

So this morning I rolled myself a nice cigarette of Tranquil Dream Tea (ingredients: chamomile, rosehips, hibiscus, orange blossoms, lemongrass, nana-mint, and citrus peels…mmmm) and I smoked that baby on the car ride to work.  I felt pretty hip with my odd tasting nicotine free and completely legal hand-rolled herb cigarette.  Too bad the aftertaste was comparable to dying fungus and it made me even drowsier than normal(how brilliant to smoke TRANQUIL DREAM first thing in the morning?!).  But, I think this posting proves why I do stupid things like this.  So you don’t have to.

 

With Alotta Love,

 

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Tags: chamomile, herbal cigarettes, sinus headaches