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Salvia Divinorum (Ska Pastora/ Sage Wisdom) |
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 Text: Salvia-Divinorum.nl | Photo: I Am Shaman
Salvia Divinorum is a species of sage (the genus Salvia). There are approximately 1000 species of sage worldwide, but Salvia Divinorum is the only vision-inducing species known. Salvia is a member of a very large family of plants known as the Labiatae. Because mint is a well-known member of this family, Salvia Divinorum is sometimes referred to as the mint family. Salvia Divinorum makes a beautiful house plant, and it can be grown just for that reason, but most people who grow Salvia Divinorum are interested in its fascinating psychoactive effects.
The name Salvia Divinorum means "Sage of the Diviners". Under the right conditions, taken in the right way, Salvia produces a unique state of "divine inebriation". For hundreds of years, Salvia Divinorum has been used in religious and healing ceremonies by the Mazatec Indians, who live in the province of Oaxaca, in Mexico.
Salvinorin A (the major active principal of the plant Salvia divinorum) is an extremely powerful consciousness-altering compound. When the herb Salvia divinorum is consumed either by smoking the dried leaf or chewing the fresh leaves the effects are usually (but not always) pleasant and interesting, this is because when used this way the amount of Salvinorin A absorbed into the blood stream is usually very small and in the case of the chewed leaves it is absorbed into the blood stream very gradually.
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Salvia Divinorum 