10 Kava health benefits

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This video is for information purposes only and you should talk to you doctor about anxiety and its treatment or an herbalist before taking herbs.

Links to studies referred to in this video.

1. Kava has been shown to possess mild anti depressant properties, making it suitable for the treatment of anxiety associated with depression - without the negative side effects of prescribed anti depressants

Sarris et al 2009

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...


2. Its also a hypnotic and so a useful treatment for insomnia
Kava helps to improve the quality of sleep significantly
it reduces active wakefulness and significantly prolongs sleep, compared with placebo

Unlike prescription drugs for anxiety, kava does not appear to interfere with mental alertness, up set the stomach, or foster a dependency on the herb.


Yurcheshen et al 2015

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Wheatley 2001

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...


3. A major scientific review of kava concluded that kava extract has significant anti anxiety activity and is superior to placebo for treating anxiety

(Pittler & Ernst 2000).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

According to the authors of the review, none of the trials reported any hepatotoxic events and seven trials measured liver enzyme levels as safety parameters and reported no clinically significant changes.
The herb appears to be as effective treating anxiety as popular prescription tranquillisers such as diazepam.

4. Kava may have a role in reducing anxiety and improving subjective wellbeing during benzodiazepine withdrawal, according to a 2001 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Malsch & Kieser 2001

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...


5. Kava has been found to have analgesic and local anaesthetic effects

The constituent kavain acts as a pain killer

The effect is not mediated by an opiate pathway

Korman et al 2012

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...


6. Kava also acts as an antispasmodic
Because its an effective muscle relaxant, it is an appropriate treatment for conditions associated with muscle spasm, neck tension and headaches,

Mills & Bone 2000 Herbs and Natural Supplements Vol 2

7. In a review of the commonly used botanicals for treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women kava was found to hold promise for decreasing anxiety in peri- and postmenopausal women

Geller and Studie 2007
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...


8. Kava kava has been reported to possess anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. We are well aware that the state of the immune system and the inflammatory process that can develop both play vital roles in the progression of cancer.

A study in the South Pacific where cancer rates are low, despite high rates of tobacco consumption - found that the more kava consumed by a population the lower the cancer incidence for a population - the data suggests there is a close inverse relationship between cancer incidence and kava consumption

Steiner 2000

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Other studies have shown kava to have anti cancer properties

Nadiah Abu et al 2013

https://cancerci.biomedcentral.com/ar...

Kava has also been found to protect against prostate cancer

Li X et al 2015

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

and breast cancer

Abu N et al 2015

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

9. Kava also acts an anti inflammatory and so helps to protect and fight against disease

The anti-inflammation activity of flavokawain was examined by Kwon et al. in 2013 .

10. Kava boosts the immune system and so protects against illness and disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

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