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visions that the Indians see after they consume the sacred food -
whether seeds or mushrooms or plant - there frequently figure
_hombrecitos_, 'little men,' _mujercitas_, 'little women,' _duendes_,
'supernatural dwarfs.' Beginning with our maiden at her _metate_, here
is a fascinating complex of associations that calls for further sutyd
and elaboration. For example, are these Noble Children related
perchance to the Holy Child of Atocha, which gained an astonishing place
in the hearts of the Indians of Middle America? Did they seize on this
Catholic image and make it a charismatic icon because it expressed for
them, in the new Christian religion, a theme that was already familiar
to them in their own supernatural beliefs?" (182)
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From: Anonymous
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.psychoactives,alt.psychedelics
Subject: Re: S. Divinorum (Diviner's Sage)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 17:16:33 -0800
The active component is salvinorin-A, a diterpene.
1. -- Dried milled leaves (200g) of Salvia divinorum, collected at
Huautla, Oaxaca in November 1980, were extracted with boiling chloroform.
Evaporation of the solvent gave a green residue (27g) which was purified
by chromatography on "Tonsil" (200g) with chloroform as eluant. Thirteen
fractions of 50.0 ml were collected, the sixth and seventh of which
contained compound [A] as ascertained by t.l.c. (45% ethyl acetate in
hexane as developer; Rf 0.7). Crystallization from the methanol yielded
salvinorin [A] as colorless crystals, m.p. 238 -- 240 C...
Ortega, A., J.F. Blount, and P.S. Marchant. (1982) Salvinorin, a new
trans-neoclerodane diterpene from Salvia divinorum (Laviatae). J. Chem.
Soc., Perkin Trans. I:2505-2508
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From: cf501@cs.city.ac.uk (Steve Mynott)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.psychoactives,alt.psychedelics
Subject: Re: S. Divinorum (Diviner's Sage)
Date: 30 Sep 1994 10:22:09 GMT
I thought the following might be of interest. My understanding from
reading this is that salvinorin A is *not* orally active, which may
explain some of the confusion surrounding this substance and the mint.
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