Kava The Healer
Aloha everyone! If you’ve been reading my blog at all, or if you’ve had the chance to experience the magic of kava, you know how very healing and helpful it can be in terms of releasing mental and physical stress, in promoting relaxation and in opening one up socially and spiritually to other people and to the natural world. However, kava is not just used for relaxation. Traditionally, it has also been used as medicine for a variety of physical troubles. So, today I wanted to discuss other traditional medicinal uses of kava. Keep in mind that this post is purely for the purpose...
Read MoreFirst Kava Experience
Aloha! My work here on my family’s farm is my love, therefore my work is never done. I even work on the weekends! Most of my weekends start out with reviewing the farm foreman’s reports on the previous week, then after that’s done, I tend to my own personal garden and read. Aside from my son and the farm, reading is my other love. And now, once again, I stumbled upon an amazing article on kava in the news while I was reading this weekend. It always makes me so happy to read about others’ experiences with kava. The following are excerpts from a story I read on...
Read MoreKava’s Tranquil Agents
Aloha! Anybody who consumes good kava can attest in minutes to the fact that kava produces a palpable, pleasurable and relaxing effect. This is the remarkable thing about kava. On many evenings on the islands, I have felt the relaxing “way of kava” flow through my body even before the coconut shell has left my lips. Good kava is so immediate it can surprise the new drinker. But what accounts for this? The active tranquility-promoting constituents of kava are a group of resinous compounds known as kavalactones. The kavalactones have been the objects of chemical research since the...
Read MoreKava Anxiety Relief
Kava Anxiety Relief – A Natural Anxiety Aid! Today, I wanted to share with you some basic information regarding how and why Kava anxiety relief is a wise choice for those concerned about taking prescription medication. I recently stumbled across a review of the various studies that have been done regarding kava, its toxicity, and its effects on anxiety. I thought this kind of information would be helpful to those people who are wondering if kava might help them with anxiety. Of course, we are not doctors and we can’t prescribe kava for anyone. But, by considering the medical...
Read MoreSongs of Kava
Aloha! Today a good friend of mine sent me a link to a short radio piece that aired on public radio a few years ago. It was so beautiful that I had to share it with all of you. This piece really made me think about all of the amazing kava ceremonies I’ve participated in, both here in Hawaii and in other parts of the world, and all of the beautiful experiences kava has allowed me to have! This is a recording made by a man named David Fanshawe, an ethnomusicologist who recorded the sacred songs of peoples all over the world in the ’60s and ’70s! He managed to record tons of...
Read MoreKava – Healer and Houseplant!
Aloha everyone! I spend so much time on my blog talking about kava root and its consumption, that I’ve never really spent much time talking about the kava plant itself. This is despite the fact that I spend almost all of my time around these beautiful plants! So I wanted to write a little something about the kava plant, and to encourage people to perhaps try growing your own kava plant – even if you don’t use the roots, they make beautiful house plants. Kava, or Piper methysticum, seems to have originated somewhere in the New Guinea area, where the entire plant is used both...
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