Has anyone drunk kava or kavajava (sometimes spelled kawa)?!
Has anyone drunk kava or kavajava (sometimes spelled kawa)?
If so can you describe it's effect on your state of mind?
Additional Details4 months ago
I had a bowl and a half in Fiji in 1999. It numbed my mouth a little bit, and combined with a little bit of rum it did appear to have some well being feeling. It does appear to do no harm, apart from some reports of liver damage. However, it is not clear from these reports whether there were other interacting factors such as alcoholism in the people beings studied.
There appears to be some kava bars opening in Florida. It does seem like a good alternative to alcohol and canabis, especially at altitude when you might find dehydration is not a problem (it is a mild diuretic apparantly)
It also appears to have a positive effect on high blood pressure, which increases at altitude.
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4 months ago
I had a bowl and a half in Fiji in 1999. It numbed my mouth a little bit, and combined with a little bit of rum it did appear to have some well being feeling. It does appear to do no harm, apart from some reports of liver damage. However, it is not clear from these reports whether there were other interacting factors such as alcoholism in the people beings studied.
There appears to be some kava bars opening in Florida. It does seem like a good alternative to alcohol and canabis, especially at altitude when you might find dehydration is not a problem (it is a mild diuretic apparantly)
It also appears to have a positive effect on high blood pressure, which increases at altitude.
I took the kava root in a dried capsule form once for a short period of time and then couldn't find it in any store. The clerk at the health food store told me they had stopped selling it because of heart problems in the users. Guess what, I had developed a heart arrythmia , irregular heart beat, and that was what caused it because it stopped when I stopped using it. Now, how did it make me feel? Very relaxed at bedtime to sleep, I took it just before turnng out the light and it worked great.
Yes in Fiji in the early seventies when I was stationed there. It was a watery yellowish coloured liquid. Tasted absolutely vile. Felt like it did nothing for you, but the headman made you drink copious amounts of it. I had a massive hang over for days after.
No I haven't, but as I recall it it is cassava root chewed by the women of Polynesian islands. They then spit the juice into bowls. This is fermented into a potent alcoholic drink. Must stress. have no experience of this, just reports from "colonial types "50 years ago.