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That's pretty much a weekend for me. Make a gallon of kava with about a cup and a half of root, drink half on Friday and the other half on Saturday. Rarely, but at times, mixing the first five or six shells with instant kava to kick it up a notch, and you have a hard-krunking weekend.

There's a page in "Kava, the Pacific Elixir" where Vince Lebot states how many milligrams of kavalactones are in a shell of kava, but he doesn't give a his recipe for making kava from powdered root. (He's probably drinking fresh kava at a Port Vila nakamal). I think my daily maximum was a...

I'm of the opinion, from personal experience, that kava rarely helps one fall asleep. As an aid to dreaming, of course, and perhaps it will allow one to sleep more soundly through the night. I think the best thing is proper sleep hygiene, which sadly is a lost art in the age of portable...

I consider ISA to be "fallen gentry." As far as "Tudei" kava goes, it's pretty mild and unassuming. I've never had stomach problems from it, nor have I woken up krunk or hung over regardless of how much I've consumed. I've only woken up krunk from Waeld Koniak (Madang Short, I believe). I...

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I don't think it's going to happen. Back in the day (1997), wild kava was called "Piper Wichamanii," but diligent research showed that it's not divergent enough to be a separate species. Now, that's probably just me being pedantic. A good analogy we're all familiar with (I hope) is the...

Consuming only Nambawan, there wasn't a Samsaric Sadness, nor a Bodhisattva Detachment. They seem to counterbalance each other. Freaky dreams, though, and still about Christopher Hitchens. I dreamed I was watching his biopic while riding in the back of a self-driving car covered in moss.

I really didn't like it. Made me sick. I might be willing to try it again if I can try a fine grind.

Personally, I like Tiki.

Refined sugar trumps all.

Full disclosure, I drank three shells of White Sands and one shell of instant kava before mixing this up. First, I started sneezing just from smelling it. Then, I felt sort of sickly drinking it. (I'm sure chilling more would have helped). Now, I'm almost going to lose it over Christopher...

Not carbonated, very good with kava.

I really try to be addicted to kava, because I'm a better person when I have circulating kavalactones. But, last night, I could only drink one shell. I wanted to drink more, I really did. I was just tired and cold and didn't want to deal with it.

Ah, the demon that is language! Kava satisfies, satiates, and slakes one's sexual desires.

The best description I have about the 11-year-waka micronized is that it is what Shaman advertised itself to be. It is a very kicked-up no-mess kava.

How does this compare to Fu'u? I'm asking because there's some oddball kavas out there, and Tongan's ability to make me feel as if I've just figured out the answer to a difficult problem might be the excitatory response described above.

I combined salsa and kava once. It was far, far too spicy.

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