Because kratom isn't FDA tested or approved, kratom can only be sold in the usa for burning as incense - dealing burn quite nicely, with smells similar to a crisp fall day. I cannot condone that ingestion of kratom and also kratom tea, but if you are looking for a great all-natural, effective, legal methods for attenuating chronic pain - say from Lyme Disease or spinal cord issues, Kratom is an amazing leaf, and may offer the relief you seek.
Kratom is the dried and crushed (or even powdered) leaves from the species Mitragyna speciosa , a tree that's native to Southeast Asia. The kratom tree is the same botanical family as the coffee tree. It's been used as a medicinal & recreational herbal drug for thousands of years, and offers stimulant (at low doses), sedative (with higher doses), analgesic, and (yes) euphoric, opiate-like residences. Kratom contains similar alkaloids as being the pharmaceutical, synthetic opiates, but is said to be much less addictive. In-fact, sometimes kratom is used as a means to lessen opiate cravings withdrawal symptoms. If you are going to use it for pain relief, however, please be careful and treat it with respect.
After two back surgeries and years of occasional, yet severe discomfort, I've come to realize that I needed a non-addictive method of controlling the spells with severe back pain which creep-up from time-to-time; kratom suits that bill perfectly. Kratom is an all-natural solutions that does work for me. Frankly, I'm lost if it actually dulls the trunk pain, or whether it makes me just not care about it (since, frankly, it gives a really wonderful opiate-like buzz that feels just GREAT!). I guess it really doesn't matter; I occasionally use kratom, I feel better... period. Life is actually good!
Now, there are some who actually enjoy the age-old ritual of boiling-dipping-stirring-straining-repeating, to make a batch of kratom herbal tea. Indeed, some also enjoy the alkaline-bitter, green-grass taste of kratom tea... but personally, I don't care-for either. Don't get me drastically wrong, I really like your smell of fresh kratom actually leaves & powder, and I love the pain-relieving and attitude-altering effects of kratom, but that bitter alkali taste - abdominal muscles ingredient that makes kratom consequently special, just turns my stomach. Kratom tea preparation isn't ritualistic for me personally, but instead a necessary evil, a real pain-in-the-butt chore which should be accomplished in order to enjoy some great benefits of the leaf.
BREWING THE BREW: I've found that using an old-school coffees percolator takes the pain using brewing kratom tea. I purchased a well used glass Pyrex 8-cup percolator on eBay for 15 dollars, and it makes really great kratom tea. I'd stay-away in the automatic, plug-in coffee or tea makers, because you'll want to brew your kratom tea much longer than the typical semi-automatic or fully automatic coffee percolator cycle. I adore my clear glass percolator for kratom brewing, so i can watch the tea darken as i go. Find a reliable source of kratom... remember, kratom is frequently sold as incense. Really, I feel it's best to stay-away from extracts together with adulterated "enhanced" mixtures - I continue standard, all-natural kratom leaves.
Here's my basic brew technique, you'll require: - Half-ounce with crushed-leaf kratom. Some employ powdered kratom, but I personally don't like it, because it makes for a colorless kratom tea. - 2 Litres of water (for two 1 liter brewing cycles). - OPTIONAL, Orange Juice (see amount below) - Some sort of stovetop percolator. - Another container - such as a 2 qt. pitcher, to mix both brew cycles jointly
LET'S GET STARTED!
1- Place the kratom in the percolator basket, and pour 1 liter of water in the basket and into your percolator before placing the top strainer on, to dampen the kratom leaves. I then like to make sure that the kratom is evenly distributed in the basket after pouring. Some believe that accumulated to 25-percent lemon juice while using the water aids in extracting the alkaloids from the kratom leaf - this is a judgment call that only you possibly can make.
2- Once the water heats-up & starts to help percolate, start the clock - and let your kratom tea leaf brew for at-least 15 minutes... 20-25 minutes is much more to my taste. Keep as low a flame as you possibly can, a really hard boil produces terrible-tasting kratom tea!
3- After the 1st brew, leave the kratom in the basket (you may well press them with a tablespoon if you like, to extract more water, but it's not required), pour your brew in to a 2-quart container, then pour the next liter of clear mineral water (or lemon-water) in the kratom filled basket and brew this also, just like the 2nd. brew... again, 15 minutes or more.
4- You'll notice that the 2nd brew cycle produces a lighter herbal tea, because you've extracted the many good things from your kratom leaves, thereby strenuous them.
5- Once finished I discard the leaves (a lot of people eat them - YUCK!), I then mix the 2 brews together in the 2-quart container to fascinating. Some boil the blend down farther, to make a stronger tea... I don't.
6- When some cooling, I dump the kratom tea into cleaned-out plastic iced herbal tea bottles, refrigerate what I'll use a few weeks, and freeze the majority. Refrigerated kratom tea only will last about 5 days to weeks, frozen tea will previous months.
MASKING THE FLAVOR: As I already mentioned, I hate the tastes of kratom tea. While I've never been able to totally mask your bitter flaver and aftertaste with kratom tea, I've found that a half-teaspoon of a commercial flavoring extract for each 16 ounces of herbal tea will really help. My own favorites are raspberry & peach, but spearmint & peppermint also work quite well. I also add two teaspoons of sugar, Splenda or Stevia. I drink my own tea cold (iced tea), and usually with a straw, because I don't like that mouth-numbing sensation, and the straw helps bypass the old tastebuds.
OTHER OPTIONS OUT THERE: I'm a big fan of capsules... because there's hardly any tastes at all. "Toss-N-Wash" is usually another option... place a teaspoon (or even tablespoon) of kratom toward the trunk of the throat, and quickly wash it down which includes a liquid - a substantial swallow. I use red juice, but others claim that there's actually benefit with using grapefruit juice - a a reaction to the acids in grapefruit moisture.
Believe it or not necessarily, "toss-n-wash" can sometimes give less aftertaste then herbal tea, but the big issue with toss-n-wash is which occasionally, the kratom gets "stuck" inside throat - which is not really a pleasant experience! I haven't tried "tossing-n-washing" anything besides powdered kratom - I can't imagine trying to swallow crush-leaf kratom!
So there you might have it... an "easier, gentler' approach to kratom use. I certainly hope that my experiences and observations with this particular amazing ethnobotanical might assist you and others gain your beneficial effects of kratom. Again, please use kratom sensibly. Don't drive while under it's effects, be sure to allow yourself the time needed to enjoy kratoms' benefits; count-on the consequences of kratom to last over 4 hours, and be sure that you are in some sort of safe, relaxing environment before using kratom.
Kratom is the dried and crushed (or even powdered) leaves from the species Mitragyna speciosa , a tree that's native to Southeast Asia. The kratom tree is the same botanical family as the coffee tree. It's been used as a medicinal & recreational herbal drug for thousands of years, and offers stimulant (at low doses), sedative (with higher doses), analgesic, and (yes) euphoric, opiate-like residences. Kratom contains similar alkaloids as being the pharmaceutical, synthetic opiates, but is said to be much less addictive. In-fact, sometimes kratom is used as a means to lessen opiate cravings withdrawal symptoms. If you are going to use it for pain relief, however, please be careful and treat it with respect.
After two back surgeries and years of occasional, yet severe discomfort, I've come to realize that I needed a non-addictive method of controlling the spells with severe back pain which creep-up from time-to-time; kratom suits that bill perfectly. Kratom is an all-natural solutions that does work for me. Frankly, I'm lost if it actually dulls the trunk pain, or whether it makes me just not care about it (since, frankly, it gives a really wonderful opiate-like buzz that feels just GREAT!). I guess it really doesn't matter; I occasionally use kratom, I feel better... period. Life is actually good!
Now, there are some who actually enjoy the age-old ritual of boiling-dipping-stirring-straining-repeating, to make a batch of kratom herbal tea. Indeed, some also enjoy the alkaline-bitter, green-grass taste of kratom tea... but personally, I don't care-for either. Don't get me drastically wrong, I really like your smell of fresh kratom actually leaves & powder, and I love the pain-relieving and attitude-altering effects of kratom, but that bitter alkali taste - abdominal muscles ingredient that makes kratom consequently special, just turns my stomach. Kratom tea preparation isn't ritualistic for me personally, but instead a necessary evil, a real pain-in-the-butt chore which should be accomplished in order to enjoy some great benefits of the leaf.
BREWING THE BREW: I've found that using an old-school coffees percolator takes the pain using brewing kratom tea. I purchased a well used glass Pyrex 8-cup percolator on eBay for 15 dollars, and it makes really great kratom tea. I'd stay-away in the automatic, plug-in coffee or tea makers, because you'll want to brew your kratom tea much longer than the typical semi-automatic or fully automatic coffee percolator cycle. I adore my clear glass percolator for kratom brewing, so i can watch the tea darken as i go. Find a reliable source of kratom... remember, kratom is frequently sold as incense. Really, I feel it's best to stay-away from extracts together with adulterated "enhanced" mixtures - I continue standard, all-natural kratom leaves.
Here's my basic brew technique, you'll require: - Half-ounce with crushed-leaf kratom. Some employ powdered kratom, but I personally don't like it, because it makes for a colorless kratom tea. - 2 Litres of water (for two 1 liter brewing cycles). - OPTIONAL, Orange Juice (see amount below) - Some sort of stovetop percolator. - Another container - such as a 2 qt. pitcher, to mix both brew cycles jointly
LET'S GET STARTED!
1- Place the kratom in the percolator basket, and pour 1 liter of water in the basket and into your percolator before placing the top strainer on, to dampen the kratom leaves. I then like to make sure that the kratom is evenly distributed in the basket after pouring. Some believe that accumulated to 25-percent lemon juice while using the water aids in extracting the alkaloids from the kratom leaf - this is a judgment call that only you possibly can make.
2- Once the water heats-up & starts to help percolate, start the clock - and let your kratom tea leaf brew for at-least 15 minutes... 20-25 minutes is much more to my taste. Keep as low a flame as you possibly can, a really hard boil produces terrible-tasting kratom tea!
3- After the 1st brew, leave the kratom in the basket (you may well press them with a tablespoon if you like, to extract more water, but it's not required), pour your brew in to a 2-quart container, then pour the next liter of clear mineral water (or lemon-water) in the kratom filled basket and brew this also, just like the 2nd. brew... again, 15 minutes or more.
4- You'll notice that the 2nd brew cycle produces a lighter herbal tea, because you've extracted the many good things from your kratom leaves, thereby strenuous them.
5- Once finished I discard the leaves (a lot of people eat them - YUCK!), I then mix the 2 brews together in the 2-quart container to fascinating. Some boil the blend down farther, to make a stronger tea... I don't.
6- When some cooling, I dump the kratom tea into cleaned-out plastic iced herbal tea bottles, refrigerate what I'll use a few weeks, and freeze the majority. Refrigerated kratom tea only will last about 5 days to weeks, frozen tea will previous months.
MASKING THE FLAVOR: As I already mentioned, I hate the tastes of kratom tea. While I've never been able to totally mask your bitter flaver and aftertaste with kratom tea, I've found that a half-teaspoon of a commercial flavoring extract for each 16 ounces of herbal tea will really help. My own favorites are raspberry & peach, but spearmint & peppermint also work quite well. I also add two teaspoons of sugar, Splenda or Stevia. I drink my own tea cold (iced tea), and usually with a straw, because I don't like that mouth-numbing sensation, and the straw helps bypass the old tastebuds.
OTHER OPTIONS OUT THERE: I'm a big fan of capsules... because there's hardly any tastes at all. "Toss-N-Wash" is usually another option... place a teaspoon (or even tablespoon) of kratom toward the trunk of the throat, and quickly wash it down which includes a liquid - a substantial swallow. I use red juice, but others claim that there's actually benefit with using grapefruit juice - a a reaction to the acids in grapefruit moisture.
Believe it or not necessarily, "toss-n-wash" can sometimes give less aftertaste then herbal tea, but the big issue with toss-n-wash is which occasionally, the kratom gets "stuck" inside throat - which is not really a pleasant experience! I haven't tried "tossing-n-washing" anything besides powdered kratom - I can't imagine trying to swallow crush-leaf kratom!
So there you might have it... an "easier, gentler' approach to kratom use. I certainly hope that my experiences and observations with this particular amazing ethnobotanical might assist you and others gain your beneficial effects of kratom. Again, please use kratom sensibly. Don't drive while under it's effects, be sure to allow yourself the time needed to enjoy kratoms' benefits; count-on the consequences of kratom to last over 4 hours, and be sure that you are in some sort of safe, relaxing environment before using kratom.
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