Proceedings of a Symposium held in San Francisco, California January 28-30, 1967

[Kava o'puss]

Transcription of a 1967 symposium dedicated to psychoactive plants.

Session 2 was dedicated entirely to kava (begins on page 102)

Page 169 appears to reference the invention of instant kava- out of necessity.

Interesting stuff. Strange these open-minded researchers failed to delve deeper into potential medicinal uses though. The Q and A regarding such potential seemed to be met with silence.

Link below

Full text of "Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs. Proceedings of a symposium held in San Francisco, California, January 28-30, 1967"

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[The Kap'n]

 

[JohnMichael]

Writing about the debilitating effects of kava, the author refutes the claim of being unable to walk after an ava session:

The partial paralysis of the lower limbs is not caused by the
kava but by sitting cross-legged for hours while the kava ceremony is in
process.

Yes, I can totally believe that!