i use a butain torch lighter out of my water bong, hold the torch on the salvia whole time only pack enough for one strong hit, but make sure u pack the correct amount cuz u don't want to waste it. so far i have only used regular leaves (saving 5x till sat). after about 10 hits i has some pretty nice closed eye visuals and had some forgetting of who i was what i was doing and where i was, but then i just took another hit. hold it in for 25-30 sec so when u blow out there is no smoke, thats when u know u absorbed pretty much all of the active ingrediant. happy smoking