Salvia in the beginning:

In the autumn of 1962, in the rural hills of Oaxaca, Mexico, Albert Hofmann, the entheogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide's (LSD) discoverer, and R. Gordon Wasson, the father of ethnomycology, traveled by mule in search of one of the flowery dreams of this subtropical landscape. The object of their expedition was a member of the family of mints known as Lamiaceae/Labiatae the Mazatec curanderas (shamans) used for centuries to achieve healing hallucinations. From the plants collected by Wasson and Hofmann, the Sage of the Diviners, the Divine Sage (or siply Salvia Divinorum) was named by Linnaean taxonomists theretofore unidentified. Before that, it was known as Ska Maria Pastora, the Virgin Shepherdess Leaves.