Kava
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GABAergic, Anxiolytic, Botanical
Kava
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Summary
Classes
GABAergic, Anxiolytic, Botanical
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Pharmacy
Pharmacology
Purported mechanism
Kavalactones; GABAA modulator; sigma receptor activity
“Pendell's corner
In the islands, the root is pounded, mixed with water, drunk from a coconut shell at dusk. The kavalactones do their slow work — the social tongue loosens, the body softens, the evening becomes longer than the calendar permits. She is the most peaceable of the wakeful Allies, and the only one whose ceremony, in many places, is still the ceremony.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Dynamis
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