MaggieM

Besides that it relaxes you....
Does it have any unknown bad side effects or anything like that?
I've had insomnia and the Kava tea at night puts me to sleep. Wondering if its bad for you??

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*Ellie*

I've read that too much of it can be bad for your liver and it can also cause skin problems. My dad is from an island where they use the kava root in a drink (has an effect somewhat like beer) and if they drink it too often even a little makes them act funny (stagger around like they're drunk, for example) but what they're drinking is concentrated. I don't know if you would have that kind of reaction just from kava tea.

Here are a couple of links:
http://www.personalhealthzone.com/kavakava.html
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/kava/effects.html
http://www.catie.ca/tu.nsf/0/7FC55EF...nguage=english

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Susannah

The things you read about kava potentially causing liver damage are way overblown in my opinion. There's actually only been one case of someone having liver damage from kava that I can find, they just kind of bashed it from that one incident. I mean, many things are bad for the liver in large doses, and there are many more things that are bad sometimes even in small dosage (alcohol for instance, and acetominophen is the leading cause of liver damage from a drug, that's Tylenol, which they say is so safe!).

Susannah

*Ellie*

Very true.

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