Kratom and Heart Palpitations
Kratom has its origin from South Asia, with Mitragyna speciosa as its scientific name. It belongs to the same family as coffee and gardenia. You can also find it in Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. It is an evergreen tree and edible leaves. The leaves can be consumed either through boiling in tea, putting in capsules, raw chewing, and drying and smoking. Kratom is classified according to its central vein color, such that red veins are called red Kratom. Green Kratom from the name suggests that it has a green central vein. Palpitations are an awkward feeling of increased heartbeats or reverberations that make you feel the heart muscle contraction. The active ingredients present in Kratom are Mitragynine and 7-hydroxy mitragynine, and they empower the Kratom to work on the opiate receptors in the brain. Kratom activates the beta-adrenergic receptors present in the heart muscle while carrying out its sympathetic activity on the cardiac muscle. Through the...