Salvia divinorum use, experiences and other info.
Welcome to salvia.net, a site dedicated to a plant variously named Salvia divinorum, Ska Pastora, Diviner's Mint, Sally-D and Lady Salvia. Though its psychoactive properties have been known to the Mexican Mazatec Indians for ages, it was relatively recent that the plant drew the attention of Western ethnobotanists, and even more recent (the early 90's) that its active component, salvinorin A, was isolated. Salvinorin A turned out to be the strongest natural hallucinogen known to man.
In recent years salvia has become increasingly popular amongst explorers of nonordinary states of consciousness. Because salvia enjoyed a legal status for years, researchers had the opportunity to study the mechanisms of its effects and possible therapeutic applications.
This website keeps you up to date on current research being conducted and its legal status around the world. Salvia.net also informs you about salvia's history, its chemistry, how to grow the plant yourself, how to use it safely and effectively, and invites you to share your personal experiences with this extraordinary hallucinogen.
The effects of salvia are overwhelming, especially when smoked. Because of this, one must carefully prepare oneself for the experience and have at least a general idea of what to expect. We invite you to browse this site before embarking on your salvia journey and hope it helps your first experience to be pleasant and meaningful.
News
January 17, 2011:Salvia battling drug addiction?
Researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, are focussing on Salvia divinorum as part of their research into anti-addiction compounds that may ultimately form the basis of medications that help reduce cravings and prevent relapses for people addicted to stimulants such as cocaine or methamphetamine.
The study is led by Dr Bronwyn Kivell, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences. Collaborating with a medicinal chemist at the University of Kansas in the United States along with her Victoria University colleague Professor Susan Schenk, Dr Kivell is investigating ways of targeting a protein in the brain, called the kappa opioid receptor, which is the same receptor affected by Salvia.
Most hallucinogenic substances affect serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the body that influences people’s sense of well-being, but Dr Kivell says salvia is different.
"It has a unique structure and contains compounds that we think could have anti-addictive properties."
A usual problem with compounds that target kappa opioid receptors, says Dr Kivell, is their tendency to have extreme side effects such as nausea and depression.
"However, some of those we are testing have much milder side effects."
Read the full article here: Research helping combat drug addiction
At Salvia.net we will be keeping a close eye on this study and report should there be any news.
New experiences
April 24 2011: Very intense
"Then the teacher turned into one of the puppet characters from Sesame street. He was trying to tell me something, and I had a feeling that I needed to follow his directions, to achieve some goal, but I didn't know what it was. I needed to do this or something bad would happen, but I didn't know what to do, I could not understand the character. Then at this moment the scene changed briefly. I saw a curtain and looked behind it. There were people running around, panicking as if they were part of some show or set or something."
Read the full trip report by Nick
Other new experiences:
Salvia experiences I want to share by DJD
My experiences on salvia by G-Man
Trip report by Taylor
In a twirling world by Kendra
Death, soda machines, and an eternity by S
My Salvia Trip by Molly
Hell is not fire and brimstone by Johnboy
First Salvia trip 10x by Variann