Yea there are some wacky alkaloids in leaf that are super rough, no idea what they areI recently quit after a run on extracts and I found the extract way easier to quit than pure leaf.
Yea there are some wacky alkaloids in leaf that are super rough, no idea what they areI recently quit after a run on extracts and I found the extract way easier to quit than pure leaf.
What do you mean by hangover? Kratom OD?Did 1g of the extract plus red the first go and got a hangover.
I am so outdated on extracts. I have not had one in a decade. Some of them from years ago felt sketchy. Like UEI. Every time I did that the next day I would be feeling strange.
But since I am trying to come off slowly I stick with plain leaf. This thread has some great info though. Even if I never try any of these isolated extracts the reading is interesting.
"while the affinity of mitragynine for opioid receptors is less than that of morphine, 7-OH-mitragynine is far more potent than either, approximately 46 times that of mitragynine and 13 times that of morphine"
Kratom—Pharmacology, Clinical Implications, and Outlook: A Comprehensive Review - PMC
Kratom, or Mitragyna, is a tropical plant indigenous to Southeast Asia, with unique pharmacological properties. It is commonly consumed by preparing the leaves into decoction or tea, or by grinding them into a powder. Recent evidence has revealed ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
If you can hit the same level of analgesia with 7-OH as morphine, efficacy should be the same. AFAIK 7-OH isn't a partial or biased agonist like mitragynine but rather a full agonist. Partial agonists have lower maximal effect which is explained in the PDF below
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Dose-Response Relationships - Clinical Pharmacology - Merck Manual Professional Edition
Dose-Response Relationships and Clinical Pharmacology - Learn about from the Merck Manuals - Medical Professional Version.www.merckmanuals.com
This PDF is super thorough in explaining the dose response relationship:
Would a lower efficacy not produce life threatening respiratory with increasing dose? I'd assume there's a point where it would happen if the dose is increased enough