How much kava and what type for sleep works for you?

[DonL]

There's really two things here, not one, the immediate application for immediate effects and the systematic application for systemic effects.

For getting you to sleep that night, yes, the 4 - 7 pm time frame is ideal for the start of the session. Fast for a few hours before you start drinking the kava, to increase the effects. Drink shells of good strong kava paced out 20 - 45 minutes apart, depending on how you feel, and plan to stop drinking kava at least 1 hour before bedtime, although really, 2 or 3 hours before bed for the last shell is ideal. Calm sounds, quiet music, low lighting, comfy couch, these all help set the mood of the sesh. In terms of quantity, somewhere between 3 and 12 TBS of medium grind, depending on how much you need and how much you enjoy. Most likely it will be in the 4 - 8 TBS range, though.

I enjoyed your post very informative. I considered drinking kava for my sleeping issues but 4-8 TBS a night could get very expensive. I think that would be a pound or so a week. Stone Kava is like $75 per 1.1lbs and that could get rather expensive, at least for me.

 

[Krunkie McKrunkface]

I enjoyed your post very informative. I considered drinking kava for my sleeping issues but 4-8 TBS a night could get very expensive. I think that would be a pound or so a week. Stone Kava is like $75 per 1.1lbs and that could get rather expensive, at least for me.

Ideally if you just drink small amounts of kava regularly over time it will have the effect of increasing your likelihood to sleep well.

As I always say, for immediate effects, aside from just pleasure, kava is hit or miss (not to mention expensive). For systemic effects, it's much more effective (not to mention very cost effective).