Mitragyna (Sundanese Superior Indo) (250 gm)

Imitation is a kind of artless flattery.

It happened to Bali and Maeng Da, now the same thing is happeneing to Sunda.  SE Asia is well known for immitations and knock offs and now the Mitragyna market is being flooded with what some suppliers and vendors are calling Sunda.  A vendor who is no longer in business wrote to me and said “Anything that doesn’t sell we just label Bali and it quickly sells out.”  It seems that the hard work and quality control that made Sundanese so popular is now making vendors some easy money.

First…. What is Sunda?  I made the name up to describe a particular grade that was harvested in a particular fassion that came from a particular area that was harvested during the four months following rainy season that ALSO tested higher than a specific % of alkaloid.

Here is the deffinition from Wiki: “The name Sunda derives from theSanskrit su– which means “goodness” or “possessing good quality”. The example is suvarna (lit:”good color”) used to describe gold. Sunda is also another name for Hindu God Vishnu. In Sanskrit, the term Sundara or Sundari  means “beautiful” or “excellence”. The term Sunda also means bright, light, purity, cleanness and white.“

I get dozens of suppliers sending me leaf that they heap names on to get me to buy…..but first comes testing.  99% of the time these suppliers are sending the same cheap varities but with new names.  I was amused when a supplier offered to send me Sunda but for a laugh I accepted and bought a small sample to test ( I don’t accept free product.)  Testing is expensive, especially with the newer equipment that is now available so when the tests come back that this material is the same silly cheap leaf that anyone can find under a dozen names I move on.  What surprised me was that two companies that sold me a box for testing have now approached other vendors, claiming that they were supplied HerbResearch with Sunda!   Some of this material is of averadge quality for cheap leaf but some is so weak that it has sat for years in storage, not even being worth my time to extract.

So…. I had a batch harvested the specific way and time Sunda is harvested and it tests out to be excellent so for now I’ll put it back on the website.  The two original supliers now longer are in the business, both driven out by the government.

It would be easy for me to start offering just anything people sold me and making up names to sell it faster but then I’d loose the respect and trust of HerbResearch members.   Herbresearch is the first documented website to offer Kali, Sumatra and Sunda. If it isn’t the original Maeng Da we won’t use the name.

Enjoy!

This item is sold in units of 250 gm (1/4 kg).