Proof that any Salvia Extract Above 40% is Either Bogus or Mislabeled

Salvia divinorum started out to be just a little piece of herb that is commonly used by the natives of sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been named as “ska Maria pastora” and they believed that it is the reincarnation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They mainly use it for divination process and for healing and treating certain kinds of diseases and illnesses like headache, diarrhea, and others. Today, some activists know it as a dangerous drug, apowerful hallucinogen by trippers, and a potential lifesaver by specialists. As dangerous and as powerful as it seems, this mysterious herb is surrounded by many different faces, some good, and some bad and tend to be destructive. Today, there are many ways that a person can ingest salvinorin-a from salvia divinorum. Some of the ways are either chewing the fresh leaves, brewing the leaves into a tea, crushing down leaves to make it able to be smokedand others. However, the most popular way of ingesting salvia divinorum is by extracts. The extracts are concentrated form of salvinorin-a, the main active component of salvia divinorum which is responsible for its hallucinating properties. Due to its popularity, many vendors have started to occupy the online marketplace. Though seems great, the onset of many vendors only resulted to bogus and frauds and we must avoid them. One way of doing this is through obtaining enough knowledge about salvia extracts. Salvia extracts are obtained by subjecting salvia leaves in a solution, mainly acetone, to extract all of the residual contents of the leaf. After the first extraction, the liquid that is obtained from soaking the leaf from the solvent is then evaporated to reveal the solid compounds that was taken from the leaf. This is mainly composed of tannins, lipids and salvinorin-a. The compound is then subjected to naphtha to dissolve other chemicals leaving pure salvinorin-a behind. This pure crude extract is too potent for anyone therefore, it is further infused with dried leaves to make a “fortified salvia leaf” that leaf is then extracted to obtain a final result, which, for example is a 5X salvia extract. There are vendors who claims to have a very high potency salvia extracts available that is often labelled as 50X or higher. This is contradictory to the maximum standard 40% or 40x salvia extract that is possible on the pharmacological field. For standardized salvia divinorum, choose those only to a maximum of 40X no more than that. Should you see vendors selling 50 or 60x, make sure they said it as “non-standardized”. Other greater than those amounts are fake. There are no such thing as 80X extract and it is clearly impossible to have no true 100X extracts are available. There are many proofs about this, but if you want to see for yourself, buy 40X and 100X extract and use them. There will be very little or no difference in the effects. This is because human body accepts a limited amount of extracts, taking more than that will only make you vomit or it is likely that the additional salvinorin-a will just pass through your blood stream and does nothing.