Leaf Of God AKA The Dream Herb

[GuerrillaDidgi]

So my fiance has turned me onto a lot of the different plants i can make into teas and leaf of god really stood out to me. it is a plant historically used by the Chontal Indians of Mexico to obtain divinatory messages through dreaming. can be made into a tea and/or smoked but my experience is that it gave me happy lucid dreams. I have 2 mother plants and just took 15 mor cuttings off them today heres some pics for your viewing pleasures i made a DWC cloner in my desk lol

 

[lost in a sea]

amazing how many entheogens were selected and cultivated in south america,, they must have tripped out big time,,

 

[GuerrillaDidgi]

Yea Most Def! I Want To Get More Cuttings Of South American Plants! Id So Be Down To Trade!!!

 

[ButterFace]

Calea zacatechichi

Calea zacatechichi

Hello GuerrillaDidgi,
interesting plant indeed. . . .
I have read that people often slowly drink a tea, and then also smoke a cigarette of the dried leaf matter. That combination of the two apparently maximizes the effect.

Looking forward to hearing how it's effects treat you.

Cheers

 

[GrinStick]

me 2

 

[GuerrillaDidgi]

hahahh sorry guys havent been on in a minute but its really unique! I have done it and it gave me a comforted dream. Its very cool not an extreme overwhelming effect and doesnt work all the time you have to be in the right mind set and i woke up with great sense of closure when i woke up for some reason. I have way to many plants and figured i give them away on craigslist for free but no takers?!?!? hahah very cool plant though. Ive trimmed back all the original clones so they will grow bushier and they look great! very cool plant to perfect gardening skills because you can basically kill this plant any it comes back hahah ive practiced everything on them from graphing to perfecting my pruning/ bonsi skills lol just more of an experiment to me now hahah

 

[N. Lumberjack]

How do you grow it actually? Does it require tropical environment?

 

[Rob547]

where does one find it? from seed? no takers on CL? lame!

 

[Payaso]

From Wikipedia:

Calea ternifolia, also known as Calea zacatechichi, Dream Herb, Leaf of God, and Bitter Grass, is a plant used by the indigenous Chontal of the Mexican state of Oaxaca for oneiromancy (a form of divination based on dreams.) The plant naturally occurs from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica. There are currently two reported varieties, one being extremely bitter and the other non-bitter. It is also employed by the Chontal people as a medicinal herb against gastrointestinal disorders, and is used as an appetizer, cathartic anti-dysentery remedy, and as a fever-reducing agent.

The correct Latin name is Calea ternifolia Kunth, with Calea zacatechichi Schltdl. being a synonym. [1][2] The name zacatechichi retains usage as a local or common name.

The Chontal medicine men, who assert that this plant is capable of "clarifying the senses" causing euphoria, call it thle-pela-kano, meaning "leaf of God". Whenever they desire to know the cause of an illness or the location of a distant or lost person, the common ritual is to smoke a cigarette, while drinking a tea, both made of Calea ternifolia, right before going to sleep.[3]

Crushed dried leaves are steeped in hot water, and the resulting tea is drunk slowly, after which the user lies down in a quiet place and smokes a cigarette of the dried leaves of the same plant. The human dose for divinatory purposes reported by the Chontal people is a handful of dried plant, but effects can be felt with as little as two to three grams of dried leaf matter. The user knows that he or she has taken a large enough dose when a sense of tranquility and drowsiness is experienced and when he or she hears the beats of his or her own heart and pulse. Calea is an extremely bitter herb and is known to induce strong nausea when drunk. Many users prefer to smoke it rather than drinking the tea. Alternatively alcoholic tinctures and placing the leaf matter in algae capsules can be as effective as tea while being much less bitter and much more palatable. There are no reports of hangover or other undesirable side effects. Many report an extremely mild state of relaxation from smoking Calea leaf or taking Calea tincture.

Chemical composition

Several compounds have been isolated from the plant, including the sesquiterpenes calaxin, ciliarin,[4][full citation needed] the germacranolides 1-beta-acetoxy zacatechinolide and 1-oxo zacatechinolide,[5][full citation needed] caleochromene A and B, calein A and B,[6][full citation needed] caleicine I and II,[7][full citation needed] as well as acacetin, O-methyl acacetin, zexbrevin and an analogue, and several analogues of budlein A and neurolenin B, including calein A.[8][full citation needed][9]

Cultivation

Generally Calea is a southern plant. Growing Calea from fresh seed is not easy; cloning this plant is much simpler. The most common way to grow it is propagation from cuttings or layers, the latter of which is very easy in late summer. The Calea plant likes full sun, well drained soils, and medium irrigation. Anecdotal evidence suggests the flowering or post flowering plant harvested in the dry or cold season yields the best herbal product.

A good soil mix for The Calea cultivation is: 1/3 of a rich substrate, 1/3 vermiculite and 1/3 of humus, or a light garden soil.

Propagation from seeds can be tried with the following method: Sow the seeds in a pot with the soil mix indicated as above. Don't cover the seeds, moisten the seeds with water and cover with a plastic bag. This little greenhouse needs from 4 to 6 hours of light to germinate. If the seeds dry out during this period, the plants will not germinate.

Law

Calea ternifolia is an unscheduled substance in the United States, meaning that it is completely legal to grow and sell. However, Louisiana State Act 159 makes the substance illegal to grow, cultivate, harvest or sell in Louisiana if intended for ingestion. The act applies to more than 40 types of plants.[10]

Tennessee proposed a bill that would have made many "hallucinogenic" plants, including Calea zacatechichi, illegal when "intended for human consumption," but the law was changed to ban only Salvia divinorum and Damiana (Turnera diffusa).[11]

Calea zacatechichi was banned in Poland in March 2009.[12]

So this is best cloned... and we know how to do that around these parts!

 

[Able Mind]

gonna put this on the list..