Following is a basic recipe for making Kratom tea. This recipe makes enough tea for 8 to 16 mild doses, 4 medium-strength doses, or two moderately strong doses (see "dosage guidelines" below):

1.Take 50 grams of dried, crushed Kratom leaves and put into a pot. To this add 1 liter of water.

2.Boil gently for 15 minutes.

3.Pour the tea through a strainer into a bowl and reserve the liquid.

(Squeeze the leaves in the strainer to get most of the liquid out).

4.Put the leaves back in the pot and add another liter of fresh water. Repeat steps 2 and 3.

(After the leaves have been strained a second time, they can be discarded.)

5.Put the combined liquid from both boiling back into the pot and boil until the volume is reduced to about 100 ml.

(The idea is to boil the tea down to a small volume so that each individual dose can be quickly swallowed.

You can boil it down to whatever concentration you are comfortable with. Be careful near the end of the process.

If it starts to become syrupy, it may spatter and/or burn.)

The tea is bitter tasting. To minimize the unpleasant taste, gulp it down quickly and then immediately chase it with some pleasant-tasting fruit juice.

The same general preparation method can of course be used with larger or smaller amounts of herb by simply adjusting the volume of water used. Kratom tea can be safely stored in the refrigerator for about five days. It is probably okay to keep it a bit longer, but it's better to play it safe and not drink it after five days. It can be stored for many months if you add some alcohol to it. Adding about 10% alcohol will preserve it for many months (in the refrigerator). That is one part 80 proof liquor vodka, rum, or a similar spirit) to three parts Kratom tea.