hipsterbuddha
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Greetings, I wanted to start an informative discussion about this alkaloid.
As some of you might know it is an alkaloid found in the kratom plant, or Mitragyna speciosa. From Wikipedia:
"7-Hydroxymitragynine is a partial agonist at the μ-opioid receptor with a potency, calculated using pD (2) values, that is 30-fold higher than that of mitragynine and 17-fold higher than that of morphine, respectively."
I have never tried kratom before but I am intetested just out of curiosity if anyone, be it a lab or just someone with time in their hands, has been able to isolate it. From what I read, it is easier to just synthetize it from mitragynine. I am not well versed in chemistry but do you guys believe it has clinical potential? Will pharma companies get into it and synthetize it, then proceed to make any derivatives illegal so they can sell it as pills?
I hope not because that would be the end for many kratom users. I have also heard from people consuming it that it's, literally quoting, "shit" and that it doesn't work at all. But I am not sure whether those people really consumed the alkaloid in question.
As some of you might know it is an alkaloid found in the kratom plant, or Mitragyna speciosa. From Wikipedia:
"7-Hydroxymitragynine is a partial agonist at the μ-opioid receptor with a potency, calculated using pD (2) values, that is 30-fold higher than that of mitragynine and 17-fold higher than that of morphine, respectively."
I have never tried kratom before but I am intetested just out of curiosity if anyone, be it a lab or just someone with time in their hands, has been able to isolate it. From what I read, it is easier to just synthetize it from mitragynine. I am not well versed in chemistry but do you guys believe it has clinical potential? Will pharma companies get into it and synthetize it, then proceed to make any derivatives illegal so they can sell it as pills?
I hope not because that would be the end for many kratom users. I have also heard from people consuming it that it's, literally quoting, "shit" and that it doesn't work at all. But I am not sure whether those people really consumed the alkaloid in question.