SALVIA INFO AND EFFECTS

Salvia divinorum is a legal, soft-leaved, green plant, native to Southern Mexico, which contains a powerful psychoactive chemical known as Salvinorin. Salvia has traditionally been used by the Mazatec natives for healing and divination. In essence, Salvia has been described as causing a state of “divine inebriation”. The plant has been surrounded by curiosity in the scientific world for it doesn’t fit easily into any existing pharmacological class.

Salvia divinorum effects has been used by healers (curanderos), or shamans if you will, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Salvia’s unique qualities allow the healer to travel into the supernatural world so that he may uncover the true cause of the patient’s trouble. Consumed in a ceremonial fashion, salvia induces a visionary trance state which permits deeper and supernatural thought or existence.