The Best Ways to Take Kratom
There’s no right or wrong way to take Kratom. Some are certainly easier than others. Some are faster. Others are more comfortable. There are no rules. You can be as creative as you like. If you figure out a way we haven’t thought of, please let us know so we can add it to the article. Don’t worry, we will be sure to credit you as the source! Okay, let’s proceed.
Toss-And-Wash
The Toss n’ Wash method of ingesting Kratom is popular among experienced Kratom users. It involves measuring out the desired Kratom-powder dosage, wetting the tongue with a small layer of water (or not wetting the tongue), then pouring the powder into the mouth and immediately washing the powder down in a big gulp—or two or three immediately-successive gulps.
Creasing a piece of paper and putting the Kratom in the crease and then tipping the Kratom-on-the-paper into the mouth is common. Toss-and-wash people recommend swishing water in the mouth to thoroughly wash everything down, and of course a person can always gulp additional water once the initial onslaught of Kratom powder has been washed down.
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Capsules
Plenty of Kratom vendors encapsulate Kratom powder for sale, and individual Kratom users can buy devices to make their own Kratom-powder capsules. Some users feel capsules are ideal and they accept the tradeoff that it can take the Kratom much longer to “hit” their system because the outer layer of the capsules needs to be digested before the Kratom can be released into the small intestine where it’s launched into the bloodstream.
Experienced Kratom-capsule users say they like capsules because they come in easy-to-dose sizes such as 500mg, 750 mg, and 1,000mg capacities and they can largely forego measuring powder every time they want to dose some Kratom.
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Kratom Tea
Making Kratom tea is about as popular as toss-and-wash and capsules. Many people swear by it, claiming it eliminates the “Kratom Breath” problem associated with the toss-and-wash method. Some claim the actually enjoy the “acquired taste” of Kratom tea that’s not mixed in with other teas—such as green tea, black tea, lemon tea, or some other flavor. Mixing Kratom tea with other kinds of tea is by far the more popular method of dosing Kratom via tea.
Kratom tea can be made by steeping Kratom leaves in boiling (or almost-boiling) water, but most people purchase Kratom powder—pulverized Kratom leaves—so that’s what they make their tea from. Sometimes there’s a little residual (or a lot of) left over Kratom that has to be “re-steeped” after the initial Kratom tea has been made. Some Kratom-tea people say the entire making-Kratom-tea process is rewarding because they like the ritual of taking the time to make Kratom tea and/or because drinking Katom tea reportedly launches the Kratom into their system faster and gives them a quicker and more intense high. On the flip side, say Kratom-tea makers, the high doesn’t last as long as if they’d dosed their Kratom another way.
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Kratom Juice
Stirring or shaking a juice-and-Kratom-powder mixture suspends the Kratom in flavored liquid and is said to be a good way to ingest Kratom if you are super sensitive to Kratom’s terrible taste.
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Kratom Yogurt
Same as with juice (same downside—yogurt is food and the Kratom can get lost in the food as far as your digestive tract is concerned. However, the Kratom will still be absorbed into your bloodstream; it will just take longer.
Kratom Leaf Chew
Kratom leaves have traditionally been chewed (like leaf tobacco) for centuries in Asia. It’s still chewed by many people who have access to, and a taste for, Kratom leaves. Many Kratom vendors find that shipping Kratom as a powder is more convenient (small packages) and many users—such as those in North America, Europe and Australia for instance—tend to agree that Kratom powder—whether raw or encapsulated—is a more practical way to purchase, store, handle, and dose Kratom.
Dried Kratom leaves can be smoked—like dried tobacco—but some say it’s impractical to smoke Kratom because a person would need to smoke so much more of it than they’d need to achieve the Kratom “high” by other means of ingestion. Besides this, smoking Kratom just seems like a really bad idea to most people because of the prospective damage to their lungs. There are “resin” extracts available for purchase, and smoking the resins is a habit of some Kratom users; however, there’s the lung damage issue and also the getting-hooked-on-Kratom faster issue because the resin is more potent than raw Kratom leaves when smoked.
Kratom Extract
Some say all Kratom consumption is bad; however, taking Kratom extract is generally thought to be one of the worst ways to ingest Kratom because, although the high is said to be more intense, tolerance builds quickly and the withdrawal symptoms can therefore be more severe. The tolerance builds up so high so quickly that Kratom-extract users can become accustomed to taking so much of the active ingredients in Kratom—“extracted” from other Kratom forms—that the “come down” is proportionately more intense/severe than withdrawing from a lesser Kratom tolerance level such as from using Kratom leaves or raw powder.
Tincture
A solution of potent Kratom extract mixed with alcohol and water, is taken on the tongue or added to drinks. It’s typically as mall, brown bottle. The solution is imbued/infused with liquid Kratom extract. This is very potent stuff, and everything we’ve said about Kratom extract applies here, including major potential for fast addiction to Kratom.
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No matter how you take your Kratom, it’s important to understand how it works including the risks of using it too much or for too long. Use the other articles of this website to arm yourself with knowledge so you can manage your Kratom usage and stay healthy and happy for a long time. Thanks for reading!