Salvinorin A: a potent naturally occurring nonnitrogenous kappa opioid selective agonist.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America September 3, 2002 Bryan L. Roth, Karen Baner, Richard B Westkaemper et al. 782 citations
Salvia divinorum, whose main active ingredient is the neoclerodane diterpene Salvinorin A, is a hallucinogenic plant in the mint family that has been used in traditional spiritual practices for its psychoactive properties by the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico. More recently, S. divinorum extracts and Salvinorin A have become more widely used in the U.S. as legal hallucinogens. We discovered that...