AndrewG
Kava Curious
Aloha all,
I'm sure this has been bought up. Although, as an herbalist so many in the community are creating alcohol extracts of kava. Most recently an 18yr old plant which in my opinion is so much better via traditional preperation. I think the testing methods are not standardized enough to say alcohol extracts are completely safe. I would think, depending on variety the alcohol would pull out more of the flavokavains and other non-pleasant constituents than the kavalactones and the other main constituents. I'm sure both are present, but to what degree? I once met an herbalist, well respected, who was telling me from all their testing it's been proven safe. I have no issues drinking kava by aqueous preperation though I have always been weary if tinctures of kava.
With these test I cannot definitively say extracting roots with alcohol is okay. More of my hesitation is the neoliberalization of kava and changing it's traditional use.
I understand it could preserve the roots longer, though if they're dried out anyways regardless they can be powdered and used likely in the same amount of time. No
I'm sure this has been bought up. Although, as an herbalist so many in the community are creating alcohol extracts of kava. Most recently an 18yr old plant which in my opinion is so much better via traditional preperation. I think the testing methods are not standardized enough to say alcohol extracts are completely safe. I would think, depending on variety the alcohol would pull out more of the flavokavains and other non-pleasant constituents than the kavalactones and the other main constituents. I'm sure both are present, but to what degree? I once met an herbalist, well respected, who was telling me from all their testing it's been proven safe. I have no issues drinking kava by aqueous preperation though I have always been weary if tinctures of kava.
With these test I cannot definitively say extracting roots with alcohol is okay. More of my hesitation is the neoliberalization of kava and changing it's traditional use.
- Acetone testing is quite close to informing us of noble varieties.
- HPTLC need replicable samples
- Microscopy.
- HPLC
I understand it could preserve the roots longer, though if they're dried out anyways regardless they can be powdered and used likely in the same amount of time. No