History of Salvia Divinorum:

In the fall of 1962, in the rural hills of Oaxaca, Mexico, Albert Hofmann, the entheogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide's (LSD) discoverer, and the father of ethnomycology, Gordon Wasson, where mule-traveling in this subtropical view, looking for one of its botanicals dreams. The object of their expedition was a member of the family of mints known as Lamiaceae/Labiatae the Mazatec curanderas (shamans) used for centuries to achieve healing hallucinations. From the specimens collected by Wasson and Hofmann, Linnaean taxonomists deemed this species theretofore unidentified and christened this plant-teacher SALVIA DIVINORUM, the Sage of the Diviners (or simply “the Divine Sage”). Before that, the Mazatec knew it as Ska Maria Pastora, the Virgin Shepherdess Leaves.