Palo Rosa & Palo Santo ~ Flamenco

Duna made an intresting obversation that Noble woods are used in the manufacturing of the castanets of  palo rosa and palo santo. Also I have found that gutars are made often from the finest woods including various types of Rosewood or Palo Rosa. They are very beautiful as you can see from the pictures here on the following posts. If you are interested in seeing more of these beautiful, handmade insturments go to the link on that post. 
Most interseting I found the other wood used for castanets, Palo Santo.
Palo Santo is used by healers and shamans in ayahuasca ceremonies, rituals, and healing and cleansing sessions. It has an amazingly strong, sweet aroma when burned, so the palo santo is used as incense to cleanse and purify the air.

It should be noted that not all wood serves the Palo Santo tree. Its benefits are only good when the tree has died of natural causes, for their own old age. If we cut a tree in Palo Santo, we will have no benefit. Besides the dead tree in his old age, must spend a time about 3-4 years, performing their natural way of decomposition. It is in this curious period when internally the timber from this tree is resulting in an essence, an oil that burned when benefisioso turns into a rich, spiritual and white smoke that will cleanse us from our evil energies.
So in the collection of the Palo Santo tree, no forests are cleared, only collects the trees and dead, thus clearing the jungle, in an act 100% ecological and protector of natural resources.
Another use of the Palo Santo is medicinal. Its essence is used to cure skin wounds and a decoction of the bark to treat stomach ailments. Also used to treat hot fomentation muscle aches.
The Tongue-Maskoy have the belief that a fire made with wood Rosewood prevents evil spirits come to the homes. They attribute this particular property due to the clarity of the flames that emerge from the wood burning. In fact, one can see that many language-Maskoy make their fire almost exclusively with wood Rosewood. If someone from the indigenous population has seen an evil spirit or has had contact with someone who has seen a spirit purifies all the people with this wood-fire smoke.


This tree is also present in the Indian marriage ritual. The couple must plant a seedling of this tree in the absence of witnesses to link their destinies and that the union lasts forever.
You can often see old Palo santo trees that are hollow inside. In these holes is conserved rainwater. The Paraguayan Chaco, where this species is distributed naturally, has a dry climate and seasonal water shortages.
The Tongue-Maskoy resorted during their migrations or hunting this reservoir of water when their supplies were exhausted. Nivaclé Indians, however, never took the water found in the hollows of the trunk.
The women used in infusion as a contraceptive and ash wood is used for the treatment of external wounds.
Indeed this is special wood and it is not suprising that it is used for Flamenco.