I tried Kratom twice. It grows in Thailand, Burma and Malaysia and has been used for centuries when the locals ran out of
opium or wanted to kick. It's also the "secret" ingredient in various herbal concoctions used all over SE Asia to "cure addicts" but it got a somewhat bad rep after a Vietnamese guy scammed the UN for a lot of money claiming he discovered a miracle drug for painless opiate detox and had some patients die on top of that.
Anyway, first time I bought it on the internet, from Holland, quite expensive, I had what was supposed to give me 4 solid highs. You can eat it or make a tea. Whatever your preference it tastes awful. What you get on the net is pressed leaves and it looks like laminated hashish. Considering I had some tolerance I popped 2 doses and felt nothing, then made tea from the rest and still felt nothing.
A year or so later I got it in Thailand, fresh leaves and chewed them and again I felt nothing. Mind you, might be my tolerance level, it is a fact that it has been used as opium substitute forever and the locals swear by it. Speaking of locals, I was smoking opium with the hill tribes and being on
methadone my dosage was like 5 times theirs, they couldn't believe it, goes to show how strong synthetic opiates really are. But when opium did kick in, after about 2 hours of smoking, it was a lovely high, the kind where you close your eyes and have vivid pictures. Loved it, just kinda awkward having to smoke so much of it.
Anyway, as far as I understand it Kratom could help and help a lot, but you'd have to be on a mild opiate and/or low dosage or you just want to alleviate wds. For anyone addicted to H Kratom is probably useless, just not potent enough.
On the other hand, some people swear Ibogaine is the ******************** to kick it. I paid $1.000 for a 24 hour trip (best trip ever) followed by 4 days of total agony, worse then any wd I experienced but for some weird reason something prevented me from speeddialling my dealer. I went back to methadone then since the symptoms just didn't subside and I didn't eat or sleep for 4 days and nights , constantly in jolts and cramps I couldn't believe, only fraction of a second reliefs and then full power jolts again. Real weird stuff Ibogaine. Did help me stop smoking though and I never touched the needle after taking it so something good did come out of it. I guess the jury is out on Iboga, I talked to a doctor who's a fervent believer in Ibogaine and went to a remote jungle tribe in Gabon to study it, guy was tripping with poisonous snakes falling off the trees around him. In his opinion I had too much in my system: heroin, methadone,
cocaine, benzos (the latter were perhaps the reason for unsual wd symptoms, no one else I know suffered for such a long time after Ibogaine.
Try buying some Kratom from the net, do your homework (research), it might actually help if you're addicted to
Imodium or in heavy wd.
Leiito