I have been consuming kratom at consistent doses for pain for years now. I've always eaten the powder, toss and wash usually, mixed juice drinks otherwise. I have made tea a handful of times, but every time I brewed it I didn't strain it. I've got a standard coffee maker, which is way easier than boiling and straining, but is that not efficient? I brew 3 or 4 passes for each dose in the coffee maker, 3 cups each, so it's at least 3 16oz cups total. If I have time I reduce it on the stove. I also have tried brewing the regular pot stove way and straining, but I am crippled and using this for pain so it's pretty much not an option most of the time. I swear I feel like it's simultaneously too strong, too weak, and just overall weird compared to eating the leaves. I thought I needed to lower my dose as I must have been absorbing more of the alkaloids with the tea, but when I did it felt too low. I feel like I'm always under or over my dose, I feel like I'm wasting what stays in the coffee filter. I also felt so much worse stomach issues, which is weird because I can toss kratom on an empty stomach and never have any issue. So uhhhhhh, what? Should I add lemon? Should I not strain the tea? Am I missing something here? I just mixed my normal dose into country time lemonade mix and drank it, and it worked a million times better than the tea. submitted by [/u/flamingjoints](https://www.reddit.com/user/flamingjoints) [[link]](https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/bm5npb/strained_tea_vs_consuming_powder_ive_been_using/) [[comments]](https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/bm5npb/strained_tea_vs_consuming_powder_ive_been_using/) https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/bm5npb/strained\_tea\_vs\_consuming\_powder\_ive\_been\_using/