Salvia History
A collection of referances on Salvia history and relationship with mankind, from its Mexican shamanic heritage to the history of salvia's modern "discovery" in 1962, and subsequent academic research into salvinorin-A the active chemical in diviner's sage. Extraction of which opened the door to new research.
The history of salvia and its relationship with mankind is a relatively simple and easy history to study, since salvia divinorum occurs in the wild in one only place on earth. This place, root of all strains of salvia divinorum's history, is called Oaxaca and lies in tribal Mexico. Anthropologists such as Albert Hoffman and Gordon Wasson have been visiting shamans in these places since the 60s. A few times in the history of the sacred diviner's sage, these explorer/scientists managed to retrieve viable samples of the plants and were able to grow and clone them. Three of these strains make up the only unique gentic material widely available for sale on the internet today.
Due to its introspective and shamanic psychotropic effects, there is very little recreational use in diviner's sage's history and the little that has occured tends to be closely intertwined with the traditional uses which center around shamanic healing and spirituality. There is a void in its history before it was reintroduced to the new-world by Albert Hoffman and Gordon Wasson and its history in the old world is limited to when it was used by shamans in Oaxaca due to the fact that it only occurs naturally in the wild in that highland part of Mexico.
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Salvia Center Exclusive article about the history and manufacture of salvia extract and analysis of the active chemicals in salvia divinorum.
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Salvia center exclusive article on the new world history of salvia, its discovery, research and the people involved.
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This section of D. M. Turner's Book on salvia is about the plant's history.
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In this paper from 1962 Gordon Wasson speculates on the history of the four sacred hallucinogens of the Aztecs, including one he belives to be salvia.
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In this paper from 1962 Gordon Wasson speculates on the history of the four sacred hallucinogens of the Aztecs, including one he belives to be salvia.
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This is an article by L. J. Valdes from The Entheogen Review. It was published in 2001 and discusses the plant's ancient shamanic herticage and its status as the legendary Aztec herb as postulated by Wasson.
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Some detailed information on salvia history, by Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz and Ara G. Paul.
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Salvia Dosage
Salvia is most commonly found in leaf(dried) or extract form. Typical dosage is determined by the type and strength of Salvia that you are choosing to do as well as by the method that you are taking it.
Dried leaves are typically smoked and it is hard to determine in advance how potent the leaf is. Leaves tend to have a lesser effect than extracts as extracts are concentrated Salvinorum- A.
Dosage for smoking an average potency leaf is as follows: Light: 1/4 of a gram to 1/2 a gram. Medium: 1/2 - 3/4 gram Heavy: 3/4 gram or more.
Please do remember that your body will not normally build up a tolerance to Salvinorum- A and that you should moderate your doses if you plan on doing more than one in a sitting.
Leaves can also be chewed similar to chewing tabac with dried leaves being moistened
in water before chewing.
Articles
A history of the extraction of the active chemicals in salvia, and the making of salvia extract.
This article gives the details about the effects of salvia divnorum usage.
A history of the modern explorers and researchers who reintroduced salvia divinorum to the world.