HH Means Healing Herbals: A Plain Guide to the Shorthand People Use in This Space

HH stands for Healing Herbals. If someone mentioned HH in a thread, a review, a Discord, or a text and you ended up here trying to work out what they meant, that is the answer.

We did not pick the nickname. Customers shortened it, and it stuck. At this point we see HH used more often than the full name in forums and group chats, which is flattering and occasionally confusing, since HH is also a common shorthand for a few unrelated things. In a conversation about kanna, kava, kratom, blue lotus, akuamma or amanita, it is almost always us.

Who Healing Herbals is

Healing Herbals is the trade name of Holistic Plant Remedies LLC, started in 2021 and run out of Long Island, New York. We sell botanical raw material and extracts, both retail and wholesale, at healingherbals.store. The catalog runs to several hundred items, weighted heavily toward the plants most suppliers will not touch: sceletium, blue and white and red lotus, akuamma, wild dagga, amanita, kava, mad honey, corydalis, cat's claw, sakae naa, African dream bean.

The same people also run Roots Kava Bar in Port Jefferson, a nonalcoholic herbal beverage bar. So if you have seen Roots and HH mentioned in the same breath, that is why.

Other names you may see attached to us:

• Herbal Heals is another name we go by.
• Holistic Plant Remedies LLC is the legal entity. It is what appears on invoices and business paperwork.
• Entheogenic Emporium is the storefront name we use on some marketplaces, including eBay and a separate site.
• Roots Kava Bar is the brick and mortar side.

All of it is the same operation. If you bought from one and are dealing with another, you are in the right place. There is a fuller breakdown of the names and how to confirm you are dealing with us in Who Is HH? Healing Herbals, Herbal Heals, and Every Name We Answer To.

The shorthand that trips people up

Brand nicknames are the easy part. The abbreviations for the compounds are where people get genuinely lost, and misreading one of them can mean buying the wrong thing. The glossary runs as follows.

Compound and product abbreviations

• MIT is mitragynine, the main alkaloid in kratom leaf. When someone says "high MIT," they mean the mitragynine percentage, not the total alkaloid content. Those are different numbers.
• 7-OH is 7-hydroxymitragynine, a minor alkaloid in the leaf that your liver also produces from mitragynine. Concentrated and semi-synthetic 7-OH products have drawn FDA and DEA action, and they are a different category from leaf.
• BL is blue lotus, Nymphaea caerulea. Not to be confused with white or red lotus, which are separate species with different chemistry.
• MT55 and 55x refer to kanna extracts. Worth knowing that an "x" number is a claimed input ratio, not an alkaloid percentage. Two 55x products from different raw material can be quite different.
• L-THP is levo-tetrahydropalmatine, the main alkaloid in corydalis.
• POA and TOA are pentacyclic and tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids, the two chemotypes people argue about in cat's claw.
• AM is amanita, usually Amanita muscaria. Not a psilocybin mushroom, entirely different chemistry.
• WD is wild dagga, Leonotis leonurus. Klip dagga is a separate species, Leonotis nepetifolia.
• ADB is African dream bean, Entada rheedii.

Sourcing and paperwork abbreviations

• COA is a certificate of analysis, the lab document showing what a batch actually contains. A COA tied to a specific batch number is worth something. A generic one on a website is worth much less.
• LC-MS/MS and GC-MS are the mass spectrometry methods labs use to identify compounds by name rather than by guess. They are what confirms or overturns an immunoassay screen.
• HM on a COA usually means heavy metals. Micro means microbial testing. Both matter for raw botanical material.
• MOQ is minimum order quantity, relevant on the wholesale side.
• NDI is new dietary ingredient, an FDA classification. Several botanicals in this space sit in that bucket.

Why we bothered writing this down

Two reasons. The first is practical. People search for "HH kanna" or "is HH legit" and land on nothing, because nobody had put the name and the nickname on the same page. Now they are.

The second is that this whole category runs on shorthand, and shorthand hides variance. "High MIT" tells you nothing without a number. A "55x" label tells you nothing without a percentage. An extract described only by a ratio is a marketing figure standing in for a measurement. We would rather customers know the difference and ask harder questions, including of us.

If you came here from someone else's recommendation, thanks for looking us up. If you are trying to reach a person rather than read a glossary, the contact details are on the site.

This article is informational. Nothing here is medical advice, and no product mentioned is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition.