Mental Kenny
Bluelighter
That's really interesting, I'll have to give it a go. Do you find you use less for a comparative level of effects (discounting the more rounded experience)?
I find it stronger and a more complete high, as if something in the plant doesn't dissolve when making a tea but gets absorbed better by the mucose in the mouth. To be honest it is fairly stronger on weight parity. Try to chew on a full teaspoon for a good ten minutes and you start feeling effects already
For me it's like with mushrooms, chewing mushrooms always produced much stronger trips than swallowing.
Also I always trust popular knowledge, there must be a reason why farm labourers in Southern Thailand have chewed kratom leaves for thousands of years instead of making teas, same thing with Khat in East Africa and coca leaves on the Andes. I've tried coca leaf tea and found it nowhere as potent as a fat quid of leaves put in the mouth and chewed and sucked.