Mixing codeine and herbal sedatives (passiflora and valerian-based)?

[Steven_Tyler77]

I'm not asking this because I want to try out a crazy new druggy combination in order to get high off it (it would probably be ridiculous to actively try to mix codeine and herbal pills for a better buzz, I assume). I am not usually into mixing drugs, but I now need this herbal sedative to help with my anxiety (going through a very harsh time in my life). That's all I can get, since I have no access to benzos for the moment...

My question is whether I can still safely take codeine recreationally alongside with it. It's not the potential for CNS depression that bothers me (which I presume to be rather low, especially at lower doses of both drugs), but the fact that I've read on the prospect for codeine that it shouldn't be mixed with MAOI drugs, due to the risk for serotonin syndrome. Now those who wrote the prospect probably had the pharmaceutical MAOIs in mind, but passiflora does contain harmala alkaloids, which are in fact MAOIs. I wonder whether I run any risk if I do codeine while being on a sedative dose. The prospect for the herbal pill does not list any interaction with opiates (other than warnings about increased CNS depression when mixing with other downers), but in my country generally herbal drugs are regarded as harmless and the prospects are often written in less detail than those for pharmaceutical drugs...

I've taken once a legit medical dose of codeine (15 mg) atfer taking the herbal pill - and I was fine, albeit more sedated (which was a nice thing too)...

[htowndanks]

Herbal sedatives work as long as you believe they will

I think if you get in the right mindset they will work just fine

[spun]

I'm not asking this because I want to try out a crazy new druggy combination in order to get high off it (it would probably be ridiculous to actively try to mix codeine and herbal pills for a better buzz, I assume). I am not usually into mixing drugs, but I now need this herbal sedative to help with my anxiety (going through a very harsh time in my life). That's all I can get, since I have no access to benzos for the moment...

My question is whether I can still safely take codeine recreationally alongside with it. It's not the potential for CNS depression that bothers me (which I presume to be rather low, especially at lower doses of both drugs), but the fact that I've read on the prospect for codeine that it shouldn't be mixed with MAOI drugs, due to the risk for serotonin syndrome. Now those who wrote the prospect probably had the pharmaceutical MAOIs in mind, but passiflora does contain harmala alkaloids, which are in fact MAOIs. I wonder whether I run any risk if I do codeine while being on a sedative dose. The prospect for the herbal pill does not list any interaction with opiates (other than warnings about increased CNS depression when mixing with other downers), but in my country generally herbal drugs are regarded as harmless and the prospects are often written in less detail than those for pharmaceutical drugs...

I've taken once a legit medical dose of codeine (15 mg) atfer taking the herbal pill - and I was fine, albeit more sedated (which was a nice thing too)...

The human body is pretty resilient. People have mixed far worse drugs than that and nothing happened, but hey, that's just how i think about it.You should be perfectly fine.