Kava Extract

Product Details

Kava is a perennial shrub of the pepper family. In some parts of Africa, the root of Kava and the wine made are collectively called “Kava” (Kava, Kawax). Kava is one of the more popular anxiety herbs and is considered non-addictive or relatively non-toxic to Chemicalbook. In 1995, kava became one of the twenty best-selling herbs in Germany. At the same time, in the United States, kava root extract and its products have been sold in many health food stores or by mail order, and now it has entered the shelves of supermarkets. It’s mainly distributed in Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, Western Samoa, Tonga Chemicalbook, Fiji, Vanuatu and other South Pacific island countries.
Kava extract is made from the root or stem of Piper methysticum G. Forst of kava, and kava lactone is the main active ingredient. Kava extract is increasingly familiar and rapidly popular due to its non-addictive, legal source channels, and considered by European health authorities as an anti-anxiety medicine. Kava is available as an over-the-counter anti-anxiety drug in Germany, a drug in Sweden, and FDA-approved for use as a food supplement in the United States.

Health Benefits

• Good for nervous system
  Kavalactone can improve the attention, memory and reaction of patients with anxiety disorders. Kava can cause muscle paralysis, has local anesthetic effect on experimental frogs, and paralyzes the wings of bats and sparrows. The mechanism of action is similar to lidocaine, acting by blocking potential-dependent sodium channels.
• Antifungal effect
  Kavapyrone has no inhibitory effect on the growth of Gram-positive or negative bacteria, and some kavapyrones have significant inhibitory effect on many fungi, including some human pathogens.
• Muscle relaxation effect
  Various types of kava pyrones have muscle relaxation effect on various experimental animals, and are more effective in protecting mice against the convulsions and lethal effects of strychnine than Mephenesin.