Thread: Xiwit

Interesting - did you see that in the SageWisdom FAQ?

This is kinda neat - it's also mentioned in the Calea Z study:

" There are several plants used in Indian communities of Mexico to obtain divinatory messages from dreams. Several puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon spp.), wrongly reported as hallucinogens (Ott et al., 1975), are eaten fresh by Mazatec Indians before going to bed in order to dream (Diaz, 1975. 1979). Nahuatl Indians from the Sierra de Puebla use an as yet unidentified species of Salvia, known by the name of Xiwit, for the same purpose (Tim Knab, pers. commun.). The plant known as Bakana to the Tarahumara Indians, which has been reported to be an analgesic, antipsychotic and divinatory agent(Bye. 1979), was later found to be employed for dreaming during night sleep (William Merrill, pers. commun.). Finally, Calea zacatechichi Schl. (Compositae) is used in the same context by the Chontal Indians of Oaxaca."

So evidently this is some kind of dream herb?

There's also some discussion about this plant here:

http://www.shaman-australis.com/foru...0&#entry168128

I had never heard of it until your post.

My google searches seem to only bring up messages on other forums with people asking the same question to little response. :/

Turns out it's another name for Calea zacatechichi.

Ben, that seems to be the source of all the forum talk. Shame there isn't any more info on it.

Ninja, there is no mention of Xiwit on that Calea page, what are you basing your conclusion on?

Oops, I misread a thing about it.