Which kava supplement is best? Kava kava, or piper methysticum, has been used in Pacific Island culture for thousands of years. Researchers have studied the active chemicals in its roots, called ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whole kava root - Jantira Namwong/Shutterstock In this day and age, everyone has heard of kava. From fancy mocktails that still ...

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Light-brown kava tea swirled around the inside of a coconut shell as kava bar owner Judd Rench explained how to drink the tea in the traditional Hawaiian fashion. “If you’re with a group, you clap ...

Kava (Piper methysticum) (Piper Latin for “pepper”, methysticum Greek for “intoxicating”) is an ancient crop of the western Pacific. Other names for kava include awa (Hawaii), ‘ava (Samoa), yaqona ...