By: Bahar Gholipour, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/20/2013 09:24 AM EDT on LiveScience An extract from the kava plant can treat people with chronic anxiety, an study from Australia finds. Patients with generalized anxiety disorder who took kava extract tablets for six weeks showed a significant reduction in their...
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Herbal hepatotoxicity by kava: Update on pipermethystine, flavokavain B, and mould hepatotoxins as primarily assumed culprits.
Herbal hepatotoxicity by kava: update on pipermethystine, flavokavain B, and mould hepatotoxins as primarily assumed culprits. Teschke R1, Qiu SX, Lebot V. Abstract Herbal hepatotoxicity by the anxiolytic kava (Piper methysticum Forst. f.) emerged unexpectedly and was observed in a few patients worldwide. Liver injury occurred after the use...
Is Kava considered a food or a dietary supplement in the eyes of the FDA?
There seems to be confusion as to how the FDA views Kava in its various forms. FDA has been known to tell bars, restaurants, and health bars that they consider kava to be a dietary supplement and therefore it is subject to the regulations set forth in the Dietary...