Salvia Divinorum, a how to guide to making and selling this rare psychedelic herb

Hello, I am here to introduce a rare psychedelic herb from Mexico so that people know how to extract and make their own standardized leaf, or even sell it if they want. I did not write this article for any business and do not sell Salvia divinorum or any kind of products made from this plant, just passing some good information on regarding this shamanic plant which has been reported by many to induce out of body and spiritual experiences.


What is Salvia divinorum?

Salvia divinorum is used as a sacred medicine by indigenous shamanic healers living in the mountainous Sierra Madre Oriental in the northeastern corner of the Mexican State of Oaxaca. In Spanish, these specialized healers are referred to as curanderos; in Mazatec these people are called cho-ta-ci-ne ("one who knows"). Salvia divinorum is primarily used in situations where the curanderos feels it is necessary to travel into the supernatural world in order to discover the true cause of the patient's trouble. It is used in a ceremonial manner to induce a visionary trance state, within which it is possible determine the underlying cause of disease and to learn what steps should be taken to remedy such disease.

"The purpose of these sacraments is to purify, and to open the road. When it opens, it's as clear as the blue sky, and the stars at night are as bright as suns." — Aurelia Aurora Catarino (Mazatec shaman)



Home Made Standardized Salvia Divinorum Leaf and Tincture Tech ver. 4.8 September 01, 2004

This document may contain inaccuracies taken from various sources on the net which I cannot absolutely confirm but are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

The process outlined in this tech. can be used to extract and refine salvinorin into a purity that is in the high 90 percentiles using nothing but common household materials. It isn't necessary to go to the extremes in the eight step process outlined in this tech. to remove tannin impurity to make enhanced leaf, but for the purists it's a delight to do it right which results in a very high purity extract which previous to this tech. required the use of laboratory glass and column chromatography to approach this purity and efficiency. Prior to this process being publically made available on the net the price of high purity salvinorin was from $5000.00 to $8,000.00 USD for a single gram. Most vendors who sell high purity salvinorin are now getting from $750.00 to $1,000.00 a gram, but costing only $65 dollars when ordered in 10 kilo quantities direct from Mexico for the 500 grams (1 pound) of dried Salvia divinorum leaf required to extract that amount of salvinorin. The cost of solvents needed to net a gram of white purity powder should be half or less the cost of the leaf when purchased from off the shelf retail sources. When concentrated back on leaf a single gram of high purity salvinorin can make at least 80 grams of 6X enhanced leaf which contains enough salvinorin in each gram for at least 10 strong doses of this potent psychedelic selling for close to 20 dollars or more a gram for a net profit of over $1500.00 dollars from only a $100.00 dollar investment in leaf and a single gallon of clean 99% medical grade Isopropanol, all which can be easily accomplished over a single weekend of work. The amount of time needed to extract and refine salvinorin into a gram of white crystalline powder can be done with many long breaks between each step in the process which is an easy way to make more money on one weekend than most people make in an entire week of 8 hour days. The amount of time required to extract and refine salvinorin, on a gram per gram basis, can easily be reduced by a factor of ten or more when working with large amounts of leaf because the same steps and nearly the same amount of time is required regardless of extracting 500 grams or 5 kilograms of Salvia leaf.

Make no mistake that this write is meant as any kind of advertisement or intended to be a draw customers to any of the web sites mentioned in this article because with rare exception none of the vendors making money from Salvia divinorum want this information to be circulated to the general public who could potentially become competitors or worse yet allow individuals to make their own enhanced leaf which would cause them to loose business. Regardless of this information being made available to anyone who wants it most people won't go to the trouble of making their own standardized leaf and will buy it so I don't think this tech will impact them that way. Techniques used to extract and refine salvinorin had prior to been kept in strict secrecy among a very few individuals who were selling tickets to Salvia-space because they wanted to make sure the number of competitors with the capability of making high quality standardized leaf would be kept to a minimum. Many had tried to get this kind of information from them and were denied, I was one of those people and due to the amount of work it took for me to find easy methods of isolating salvinorin on my own I am now making this available to the public as I wish it had been made available to me. The stated reasons of the old boys on the block against making salvinorin isolation techniques publically available were usually words to the effect that if competition was kept low the price for enhanced leaf would be kept so high it would keep enhanced leaf out of the hands of adolescents which they believed would lead to trouble faster than anything else, which I don't disagree is a real potential problem but secretly and more importantly for most (in their minds) they knew keeping this information restricted kept their pockets lined with gold. At the same time these online vendors were reporting to others they were not make much from their Salvia sales they were really making many thousands of dollars a week selling nothing but enhanced leaf and due to the increasing demand are still making more money than ever regardless of increased competition. Within the industry salvinorin is referred to as green gold, but the truth is the value of salvinorin exceeds gold by many times to be far more valuable than any precious metal. Just three years ago salvinorin was so expensive that it was selling for hundreds of times the price of gold per ounce, up to $200,000.00 dollars an ounce in high purity form. Today, the price for salvinorin has dropped to close to $20,000.00 dollars an ounce from some of the more competitive vendors but probably won't drop much further and may even rise due to the ever increasing demand. It is important to understand that no one is selling pure salvinorin for direct use as a drug because this psychoactive is far too potent to be used that way and should only be used if greatly diluted on leaf to limit the amount of salvinorin ingested to a milligram or less for most people. Some individuals are insanely sensitive to salvinorin while others are almost completely insensitive, but the average dose of salvinorin when smoking enhanced leaf is often a milligram or less at a time for most individuals and never more than 2 milligrams for most of the white knuckle salvianaughts who want to push themselves to the furthest limits.

To see the current prices for a gram of enhanced Salvia divinorum leaf do a google search under the term "Salvia divinorum" to find links to various vendors to see the prices for a single gram of salvinorin enhanced leaf. The amount of salvinorin contained in enhanced leaf varies depending upon the "X" factor of the product but due to the extreme potency of salvinorin is always a small fraction of the total weight. Average potency Salvia divinorum leaf contains 2.5 mg of salvinorin per gram of leaf. If making 6X standardized leaf you are adding 12.5 mg of salvinorin back to raw leaf so that the total amount of salvinorin contained in a single gram is 15 milligrams. 6X enhanced Salvia divinorum leaf contains less than 1.5% salvinorin by weight and is currently selling between 15 to 20 dollars a gram which cost less than a dollar for the leaf needed to make it. When ordering Salvia divinorum leaf in bulk quantities direct from Mexico the salvinorin needed to make 6X enhanced leaf costs a nickle or less a milligram, but when used to enhance leaf can be sold for more than a dollar a milligram. Of course, the solvent needed to extract and refine salvinorin from leaf to make standardized enhanced leaf is also a factor but should not be more than 1/2 the cost of the leaf. 20X enhanced leaf is currently selling for as much as 50 dollars a gram which only requires extracting 25 grams of average potency raw leaf which costs as little as three dollars when purchased in bulk quantities for a net profit of over 45 dollars above and beyond your cost for leaf and solvent.

Go to any of the following links to see the whole article, this write is over 74,000 characters long and can't be posted here due to post limits:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2949346&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

http://forums.lycaeum.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=001364

http://www.ethnobotany-australia.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2344

 

Very interesting reading and links.

Have just butterfly read all the stuff.
Here's another good link.
Probably the best on the net.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml

 

That has just blown my mind........

I have never heard of them prices mentioned, just for a chemical???
From a cheap plant??
Sound a bit wack to me..........but i will do more research.