Salvia divinorum tech's and medium to high resolution .jpeg images of crystalline salvinorin-A. A collection of my favorite photographs of salvinorin-A crystals selected out of over 1000 taken from 2002 to 2006. Once this page is opened click on each photo to see a larger picture. Look for the "original" link under the photo if you want to see the photo in its highest resolution. Also, at the bottom of the page are a few .pdf articles I wrote about extracting Salvia divinorum leaf. All photographs and documents copyright owned but feel free to make them available on pro-entheogen forums and web sites, others must ask permission to use them. The hit counter for this site represents the number of unique visitors.
Regarding the extraction techs which can be viewed at the bottom of the page:
I am not a chemist or a professional in botany but have worked many hundreds of hours to find and hone simple methods for extracting and refining salvinorin without the need for special equipment and have placed everything I have learned over the years here. These methods were worked out in a place and time where and when legal to do so. Please observe all local laws.
Disclaimer, use this information at your own risk, I will not be responsible for either the proper or improper use of the information provided. Also, these documents were written to share what I have learned and may not be completely accurate and or safe to attempt and this applies to either extracting the leaf using the methods I have outlined or for using Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin-A as a psychotropic substance. What I am providing here is only a documentation of my own experience and views on the subject and use of Salvia divinorum and its active principal salvinorin, however flawed. See further disclaimers in the documents. Salvia divinorum should only be used by adults who are of sound mind and clear intent... along with some common sense!
The following text is cut and paste from several papers I have written regarding Salvia divinorum, some portions repeat the same information over again but each also contains more info too so I'm going to place them all here anyway for whatever they may be worth to you. Some may disagree with my observations and or views which is fine, I'm just offering my own experiences and thoughts on the matter using plain unsophisticated language without taking attitudes one way or another, just giving my honest assessment of Salvia divinorum and its effects. I fairly well sit on the fence in regard to what is really happening with Salvia because I don’t know if the experiences are any more spiritual or perhaps otherworldly than what we already have in us but I know one thing for certain and that is what we understand and master can go very deep in any direction we choose to seek. This is certain, whether seeking knowledge in pure physics alone to understand the properties of matter for what we can ingeniously fashion from physical materials or as a explorer of the mind seeking that kind of understanding to the depths consciousness can go. Either direction can be wonderfully fulfilling to master, this I know for certain as many individuals have proved this out time and time again throughout history. It's very apparent that as human beings we are capable of great things but I wonder if the use of entheogens is the dawning of new possibilities for us, is the use of Salvia a molecular key to open a doorway to deeper realities beyond the capabilities of normal human cognition? Regardless of such ideas Salvia divinorum certainly is a catalyst for rapid cognitive growth or change as many of the vision producing plants can be, I also know this for certain but even if the use of Salvia for its awesome psychotropic mind-flowering and unusual experiential depths to consciousness is purely a human experience which goes no deeper than looping through the gray matter in our noggins’ alone and isn't what I hope it can also be, a way to crack the door open to something greater than our individual human minds alone, I still firmly believe the use of Salvia divinorum can be extremely valuable and is a wonderful tool for introspective searches to understand one’s self.
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The common effects of imbibing small to large amounts, my own observations:
The potency of salvinorin-A from the Salvia divinorum leaf can be different from person to person requiring more or less of an amount to reach a similar point of divine and perhaps, sometimes, not so divine inebriation if used irresponsibly without sincere intent. For most individuals the strength of the effects from mild to extremely strong are experienced between .25 mg (quarter milligram) and 1.5 milligrams infused into leaf and smoked. When used as a tincture up to 10 milligrams when using the staggered method of dosing (explained further, below) which takes far more salvinorin for similar effects compared to the amount when smoked. Most experienced salvia explorers who dare to smoke white knuckle amounts of enhanced leaf never want to smoke more than 2 milligrams of salvinorin infused leaf as this amount is their upper limit before the experience is too intense to endure and beyond that the possibility of passing out, some individuals requiring far less to reach that point. A few words of caution for those of you who want to attempt to smoke crystalline salvinorin, this can be hazardous due to several reasons which you can read about on Daniel Siebert's web site at http://www.sagewisdom.org/caution.html - If you are not going to heed my advice not to do so and desire to try smoking high purity salvinorin be aware that .25 mg of near pure salvinorin (one quarter sized portion of one milligram) is far stronger in that form compared to smoking the same amount of salvinorin diluted or infused into a larger amount of dried leaf. I see no benefit to smoking powdered (or crystalline) salvinorin because high purity salvinorin will NOT produce effects any different than smoking enough 5X enhanced leaf, it just takes less or a smaller amount of salvinorin for the same effects when smoked in near pure form which is very risky, please see Daniel Siebert's web site to know why.
OK, to get to what I began to write before I started explaining why no one needs to risk smoking high purity salvinorin; here are my own observations, my own experiences. The following amounts or sizes are dose relative to my own personal sensitivity to Salvia divinorum or salvinorin-A, your own sensitivity might be far greater or less. Also, I’m going to mention the following for those individuals who cannot seem to have a breakthrough or vision with Salvia the first few times they have tried: I had to smoke small amounts of 5X enhanced leaf a dozen times before I began to be able to have visions and the latter half of the doses or amounts of enhanced leaf I had slowly worked up to before having my first vision are now more than enough to cause visions. Until I became sensitive enough to Salvia, or perhaps tuned into what was happening, I could not have an internal visual break-through when smoking doses which were more than enough for me to have visions once I had the first breakthrough. In the following you will read where I keep stating only sometimes will certain kinds of visions occur at certain dose levels of salvinorin infused into leaf or they may or may not even happen at all. I make this statement because that's the reality I experienced, sometimes I would see what I had hoped for but many times I didn't experience the depth of what I wanted to see, especially in the beginning. For some individuals it takes time, many attempts before a first vision will occur and many tries before the more profound kinds of visions (or what is profound to you) might happen. To have a variety of different types of visions you might find it requires 100 or more attempts to have a handful of exceptionally remarkable ones, that is how it was for me but of course you might be different. Some individuals will have a full blown awesome experience the first try so don’t assume that can’t happen to you or that you might need a period of sensitization as I did, you might be able to have an impressive experience the first time.
The following is a generalization of my own experiences with Salvia as specific dose ranges:
1. Threshold amounts. For myself, approximately .20 mg or less than a quarter of one milligram of Salvinorin infused into 5X to 10X leaf somehow increases creativity, deepens my ability for philosophical thinking and is an excellent aid to meditation for spiritual pursuits with an anti-depressant effect for some individuals who suffer from such.
2. Small amounts of .25 to .35 milligram (~1/3 of a mg) infused into 5X to 10X leaf. When my eyes are closed I feel as if time has dramatically slowed down to the point where three seconds seem to last thirty and my thoughts almost seem to loop back upon themselves sometimes accompanied by extremely fleeting and barely perceptible closed eye visuals. With eyes open and looking at back-lit images such as photographs on a computer monitor or video on a television screen they appear to be three dimensional when I know they aren't. When looking into a mirror the effect is the same except the image looks like I am standing on the outside looking back instead of only a reflection. Small amounts of salvinorin usually heightens libido for a few minutes and if taken at the amount just b e l o w the dose which can cause closed eye visuals can produce an incredible boost to orgasm which is several times more intense than normal (close the windows and make sure the kids are out).
3. A moderate amount of a half or .50 to .75 milligram wh... |
