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Mitragyna speciosa is a tropical evergreen tree of the Rubiaceae family (coffee family) native to Southeast Asia. [3] It is indigenous to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, [4] where its leaves, known as kratom, have been used in herbal medicine since at least the 19th century. [5]
In Malaysian kratom varieties, mitragynine is present at lower concentration (12% of total alkaloids). [5] Total alkaloid concentration in dried leaves ranges from 0.5 to 1.5%. Such preparations are orally consumed and typically involve dried kratom leaves which are brewed into tea [4] [5] or ground and placed into capsules. [5]
Kratom tea is increasingly popular, but a new study on kratom's side effects has deemed products made with this plant to be a public health threat. Is it a real remedy—or a risk to steer clear of?
The FDA is aware of 36 deaths linked to the drug, as well as a tenfold increase in calls to poison control centers about the substance from 2010 to 2015.
Kratom tea made from the dried leaves of the kratom tree. It has opioid-like properties and some stimulant-like effects. [14] [15] St. John's wort tea, the plant has been shown to have antidepressant properties according to a 2017 meta-analysis. [16] Ephedra tea, mainly from the plant Ephedra sinica. [17] It contains the stimulant ephedrine.
Poppy tea is a herbal tea infusion brewed from poppy straw or seeds of several species of poppy. The species most commonly used for this purpose is Papaver somniferum, which produces opium as a natural defense against predators. In the live flower, opium is released when the surface of the bulb, called the seed pod, is pierced or scraped.
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Some states further limited the sale of paregoric, or banned over-the-counter sales entirely. For example, Michigan law allowed over-the-counter (non-prescription) sale of paregoric until April 1964, but still allowed OTC sales of certain exempt cough medication preparations that contain 60 mg of codeine per fluid ounce."