The Salvia Center's Library

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.

Reporton the legal status of Salvia divinorum in the countries that have made laws governing salvia.

This article discusses the basics of growing salvia divinorum and offers some helpfull tips.

This is an excerpt from a chapter entitled "The Minor Psychedelics" in DeKorne's 1994 book. DeKorne has pretty low expectations of salvia, and it shows in this overview.

This article details the author's explorations of differant methods of salvia use.

Interesting overview of salvia cultivation, from the now defunct Resonance Project. Includes a good section on pests.

This is the first description of the salvia specimens that Wasson returned from Mexico with, it was published alongside Wasson's article.

This report discusses the properties and extraction of the "other" active chemical in salvia.

The referance text written by the team of chemists resonsible for first isolating Salvinorin A.

Great referance text on salvia, this covers the plant's geographic range, botany, and traditionl use. It was published in 1996.

One of Valdes' earliest papers, it studies the history of shamanic salvia use, both divinatory and healing.

This is one of the first widely read articles written about salvia by the modern day salvia pioneer Wasson in 1962.

Excerpt from Albert Hoffman's book, "LSD, My Problem Child" that details his expedition with Gordon Wasson into Mazatec country to research salvia's use there.