Tongkat Ali dosage

By tongkatali.org
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Updated July 2, 2025

After "Tongkat Ali" itself, "Tongkat Ali dosage" is the most common Tongkat Ali-related search term on Google.

This is not surprising, because practically all people who buy a so-called Tongkat Ali product on Amazon or from large US retailers have zero effect from the dosage indicated on the bottles, neither immediate nor long-term.

This, again, is not surprising because whatever the brand they bought, the product is likely mostly rice powder, or magnesium stearate, with just traces of Tongkat Ali.

For most people, an effective dosages of Tongkat Ali extract are in between 2 grams and 5 grams per day.

That is a dosage at which a user should be able to tell the difference between having taken Tongkat Ali and not having taken it.

With Tongkat Ali root powder, one will likely never reach an effective dosage because there are limits as to how much wood powder a human digestive system can handle. We are not termites, and excessive human wood or root powder ingestion may lead to stomach cramps, bloating, and diarrhea.

A dosage of 2 grams to 5 grams of genuine Tongkat Ali extract per day will have a noticable effect, mostly by energizing a user, which is a common indication of raised testosterone. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
articles/PMC6765788/)

Instead of an effective dosage of 2 grams to 5 grams per day, the recommended dosage printed on most Tongkat Ali products bought on Amazon or from large distributors is, on average, 2 capsules of 200 to 400 mg a day, obviously with no effects.

But even taking 10 times the dosage recommended on a packaging will still produce no noticable effects, and that can have various reasons.

The most common one is that, anyway, the product is mostly rice flour. Practically all Tongkat Ali products sold on Amazon and by large retailers contain rice flour, and list it as ingredient.

US regulations do not require traders of herbal supplements to specify the percentages of rice flour or magnesium stearate (https://www.fda.gov/food/
dietary-supplements), so you may as well assume that a product that lists rice flour or magnesium stearate as other ingredients are mainly that: rice flour and magnesium stearate. Why? Because rice flour and magnesium stearate are way cheaper than Tongkat Ali extract, even Tongkat Ali root powder.

And the result: you won't feel anything... the product has no effect whatsoever.

Not that that would bother those companies that sell so-called Tongkat Ali. Their logic: better 10,000 people pay and feel nothing, rather than 1 person feels too much, and then sues them.

So, you won't have an effect from 2 capsules, or 4 or 6, and you won't feel anything from the whole bottle.

But don't try that with our genuine Tongkat Ali leaves extract, which is exceptionally high in eurycomanone. You will feel something from the indicated dosages, and not just some time in the future. Effects are immediate.

Our products are free of rice flour and magnesium stearate. There is no necessity, technical or otherwise, to add either of these, as pure Tongkat Ali extract can easily be filled in capsules.

Rice flour and magnesium stearate are really just used to stretch the Tongkat Ali (an expensive product), so that 100 grams will fill 10,000 bottles.