Piper Methysticum
Let Kava Take The Wheel
This article was in the July 1973 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The journalist was given kava by a doctor who was testing it on rats and describes how it affected him.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V39IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LW0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5034,1910318
Here's an article in the same newspaper from 1967 about that doctor's research. He isolated an ingredient "F-1"that he believed was responsible for calming the angry rats. F-1 = kavalactones?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oEkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1042,2637343
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V39IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LW0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5034,1910318
Here's an article in the same newspaper from 1967 about that doctor's research. He isolated an ingredient "F-1"that he believed was responsible for calming the angry rats. F-1 = kavalactones?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oEkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TP8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1042,2637343