The Herbal Ritual

From the selection of exquisite botanicals to the moment of grounding with your exhale, the herbal ritual connects us all. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the benefits this process brings to your very being.

Ritual: “an act or series of acts regularly repeated in a set precise manner.” -Merriam Webster

For some, the herbal ritual is a daily endeavor and others seldom—yet the experience guides us all the same.

Step 1: Thoughtful Selection

Whether you choose a strain that might help with mood, sleep, or body aches, the thoughtful consideration behind your botanicals should be centered on your needs.

Herbs can be dynamically beneficial for every one of us.

If you consume flower by inhalation, vaporization is the healthiest method. We will explore this path in depth, but each aspect can also be applied to combustion as well.

Step 2: Choosing the Right Grind

The grind itself impacts your vaporizer experience and the mindful consideration of this differs for convection, conduction and hybrid devices.

Apply these grinding tips for a fruitful extraction of your herb, enhanced packing ability, and effective vapor production:

• Conduction: fine powdery grind. Lumpy blends can cause air pockets, resulting in noneffective vaporization.
• Convection: medium-course/medium, light and fluffy grind. Utilizing a fine grind may cause scooby snacks (ground herb in your mouth).
• Hybrid: medium or medium to fine grind. Be intentional not to over-grind your botanicals. Higher temperatures exceeding what you need may potentially combust with a super fine grind.

Step 3: Precise Packing

To truly connect with your herb, how you pack the chamber of your vaporizer matters equally to the grind. The most common mistake resulting in a sub-par experience is the over- or under-packaging of your herbs.

These packing tips should help guide you to a profound experience:

• Consciously cover the screen of your chamber evenly, this ensures that all air passing into your mouth flows through your botanicals and activates their healing substances.
• Make note not to overpack; this restricts airflow and gives sub par vapor production.
• Ensure to not under pack or loosely pack the chamber, this can cause overly fast vaporization of your botanicals and tends to recklessly waste your precious herbs.

Step 4: Inhale the Botanicals, Exhale the Experience

The act of inhaling activated herb has been said to promote healing down to the very fabric of who we are. The Endocannabinoid system has receptors in both of our nervous systems for the binding of these compounds. The effects you feel from inhalation depend on which receptors receive them.

When vaporizing the herb, you acquire 95% of the THC content in your herb within the first few seconds of inhalation; this is alongside CBD, other terpenes, and cannabinoids. The myth that holding it in enhances your experience simply isn’t true.

It is recommended to take shallow hits when inhaling from a vaporizer and retain the hit for a lesser amount of time before exhaling than you would with a typical joint.

Exhaling botanicals provides a release of more than just the vapor within your lungs. This aspect of the herbal ritual may help ground us to the present and allow for a clearing of the mind.

The Holistic View of the Herbal Ritual

The herbal ritual provides a connection with the plant itself, ourselves, and humanity.

For some, it is as routine as a cup of coffee, but the benefits may help us each time we partake all the same. The next time you enact your ritual, take a moment of appreciation for all it provides.

A Note to Our Readers:

This blog is for informational purposes only and does not represent the views of Rite Innovations. The insights shared are anecdotal and not universally applicable. The FDA has not evaluated the statements about herbal products, and we recommend consulting with a physician before consuming them. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent diseases. Support for claims made on this website is available upon request. This article is not intended as legal advice.