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Looking for kava source

hodyoaten — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:37:24 -0800

Where can I order kava kava tea? My wife drinks kava tea every few days for anxiety (works amazingly well). She drinks the Yogi Tea brand. I'm out of the loop on this but she tells me she is having trouble locating it lately, presumably because of the liver damage scare, which she is well versed with. I'd like to do her a favor and (with the help of MeFites) hook her up with a new source of kava tea. I'm in the US, but an international source would work. Any ideas? Did Yogi Tea really stop making this, or are resellers just not bothering with it anymore?

Also any suggestions for other things she can try (besides exercise -- she is active) that work well for clinical anxiety (not depression, bipolar, or other disorders) would be fine; maybe there's something that she could try. But I'd like the kava source too.

Whoever finds a source that she likes and begins using I will flag as "favorite"... if I flag your post feel free to E-mail me and I will send an autographed copy of one of my books (I'm a science writer) as a gesture of thanks. It might take her a few days to figure out whether any of the sources work for her.

japanese pot kool aid

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:26:33 -0800

What powdered drink mix did they give my boyfriend in Japan to get him high? While visiting a design office in tokyo my boyfriend and his friends were (not quite forced but) encouraged to drink a brown powder that was mixed in water. he claims it tasted and felt like drinking sand. the mixture didnt dissolve in the water very well and may have come in a large tin or box.

the powder drink, he claimed, made him feel high and sleepy all day long. while not expecting it he did enjoy it. he claims it seemed like a commercial product.

so does anyone have any idea what this is they may have been? it was seemingly readily available and used at this office.

Kava kava

borkingchikapa — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:40:17 -0800

I want to buy some kava. Looking on the internet, it seems it'll run me about $12/lb plus shipping. Is the stuff I'm getting going to be crap? Has anyone tried it? What's it like?