And even if FDA considered kratom to be safe as a botanical, marketers of kratom would be precluded by the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (FD&C) from making claims that such products are intended to treat diseases. Such disease claims render a product an unapproved drug, Ullman said.
Indeed, the most common cause for coughing up blood is the least seriousâa ruptured small blood vessel caused by coughing and/or a bronchial infection. In patients with a history of smoking and those who are otherwise at risk for lung disease, however, hemoptysis is often a sign of serious illness.
In Real Life, coughing blood can indeed indicate life-threatening damage. One of the scientific names for this symptom is  Hemoptysis . It can result from organ and tissue damage from disease or trauma; punctures in the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts; and massive trauma to the body as a whole. In Final Fantasy Tactics there are several characters who die with blood from the mouth. 2  Duke Larg and Duke Goltana both die coughing a burst of red pixels, and in his final character portrait, Islude is also portrayed as bleeding from the mouth.