subject: Salvia - The World's Best Legal Smoke [print this page] Salvia Divinorum is a psychoactive plant that is presently legalized in many countries. It is also called the Seers or Maria Pastora. The plant is capable of producing dissociative effects, in the sense that they reduce or block the signals that reach the conscious mind from different parts of the brain. There are many other drugs that produce this type of action, but dissociative drugs are unique in the sense that they are capable of creating hallucinogenic effects. The hallucinogenic effects can include dream like state, dissociation, hallucinations, sensory deprivation and a state of trance. Users of this drug often enter a deep trance state and they experience realistic and intense state of dream.
Salvia Divinorum is mainly cultivated in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, Mexican cloud forests. This plant which stands over a meter high, grows on shady and moist locations and the slopes of the Mexican mountain range from a perfect cultivation area. The plant has large leaves, square hollow stems and produce white and violet flowers occasionally.
Salvia Divinorum has also been used for a long time, for cultural and religious purposes. During spiritual lessons for healing, the mazatec shamans use it for facilitating visionary states of consciousness. The religious group also believes that the plant is an incarnation of Virgin Mary. Researchers have concluded that Salvia Divinorum is less toxic with a low potential for creating addictive effects.
There have been several media stories and alarms raised on the Salvia's legal status. However, the drug remains to be legal in most of the countries. Salvia Divinorum is also used in a minimal percentage, in the treatment of medical conditions like diarrhea, headaches, anemia, rheumatism and it is also used as a diuretic in low doses.
In the recent times, Salvia Divinorum has grown to become increasingly popular and is also available in many countries. Apart from selling salvia plants, the internet has also accelerated the development of other related businesses like that of selling dry salvia leaves, extracts and some other preparations.
Salvia Divinorum is consumer and ingested in different methods across the countries. In the traditional mazatec rituals, the shamans use fresh salvia leaves. Present methods places more focus on techniques that soak up the ingredient Salvinorin A. If in there is sufficient levels of Salvinorin A in the human blood it leads to an altered consciousness state. The period of this state depends on the quantity of Salvinorin A absorbed in the body and also the method through which the drug has been ingested. The fresh leaves of the plant are crushed and the juice from the leaves is extracted by the shamans. To induce altered visions in their ritual healing programmes, the plant extract that is prepared, is mixed with water and taken in the form of a concoction or tea. A second method that the mazatec shamans follow involves swallowing and chewing a number of salvia's fresh leaves. Oral ingestion takes ten to twenty minutes to create the effect. Other methods like smoking or the tincture methods of ingestion are also practiced.
