The Salvia Divinorum plant is used as a sacred medicine by shamanic healers living in the mountainous Sierra Madre Oriental (Mexico). The Mazatect regard the plant as holy and take special care not to damage or destroy the plant. Interest in this plant has grown due to its unique entheogen properties. Divinorum is one of several vision-inducing plants employed by the Mazatec Indians, one of the native Peoples living in the mountains and upland valleys of northeastern Oaxaca ( LEANDER J. VALDES III, JOSE LUIS DIAZ and ARA G. PAUL 1982).

Its regarded as a very rare plant, found naturally only in this region. The plant grows in large clones to well over 1 m in height and its large green leaves, hollow square stems and white flowers with purple calyces.

This site is dedicated to the cultivation of this plant, primarily in the UK.