The psychoactive chemical in Salvia Divinorum is called salvinorin a.
Different strengths of salvinorin a are found in the various products websites offer. The more salvinorin a, the less that needs to be taken and the stronger the salvia experiance.
Let's take a look, there's:
Salvia Leaf
Standardized Salvia Extracts
Salvia Extracts
Liquid Tinctures, and
Salvia Plants
Salvia Leaf: is just the plain dried leaf of the Salvia Divinorum plant, and a great place to start if your new to smoking salvia. It contains about 4mg of salvinorin a per gram.
Standardized Salvia Extracts: are created to be at an exact potency and strength. They contain as many times the amount of salvinorin a per the number of the extract. So 1 gram of Salvia 5x extract would contain 5 times the amount salvinorin a, in just 1 gram of leaf. So that would be 20mg as opposed to 4mg.
Salvia Extracts: "The difference between the standardized and non-standardized extracts is that the standardized extracts have an exact amount of Salvinorin A put back on the leaf, while the non-standardized ones can fluctuate a bit. They're both good quality. The standardized is just EXACTLY the same every time. For the money, the non-standardized is the better value."
Salvia Tintures: Are a pure grain alcohol extraction of Salvinorin A. Arena Ethenobotanicals makes these and they contain 44 mg of salvinorin a, per ounce. Arena recommends 3-7 dropperfuls at a time, depending on the strength users wish to experiance.
Salvia Plants: Are the living Salvia Divinorum plants. You can find growers guides on the internet and sooner or later, we'll put together a nice video to help you. They grow over a meter high, are native to certain areas of the Sierra Mazateca region in Mexico, and can be progated over most of North America/ the world. Interesting to note that "Although isolated strands of Salvia divinorum exist, these are thought to have been purposely created and tended by the Mazatec people." -wikipedia
Basically saying, this plant was purposefully breed by the Mazatec people for their use.
At the table below we've listed a price comparision between 4 companies. Pesonally, we only reccomend buying from two. Either Bouncing Bear or Arena Ethnobotanicals as they're the only good companies that have received great user feedback.
As you'll remember:
PotentSalvia.com is a scam
TheBestSalvia.com is way over due on orders and can't receive emails.
IamShaman no longer sells salvia
Salvia Dragon.com we'll also evaluate below.
*listed on the table*
Shamanic Extracts is based from the Netherlands and has received a lot of negative feedback.
And we're still not sure about Salvia Supply. Feel free to email us with any of your experiances, by shooting us an email to sendreports @salviareports.com or click here.
This table is fairly basic, but it gets the job done. Extracts are listed price per gram. s. = standardized
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