Salvia Divinorum history:

In the fall of 1962, somewhere in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of the entheogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and the father of ethnomycology, Gordon Wasson, where mule-traveling in search of one of the flowery dreams of this subtropical landscape. The target of their expedition was a member of the family of mints known as Lamiaceae/Labiatae used for centuries by Mazatec curanderas (shamans) to achieve healing hallucinations. From the specimens collected by Wasson and Hofmann, the Sage of the Diviners, the Divine Sage (or siply Salvia Divinorum) was named by Linnaean taxonomists theretofore unidentified. To the Mazatec, it was known as Ska Maria Pastora, the Virgin Shepherdess Leaves.