Kava Kava is an indigenous to Polynesian, South Sea Islands and Australian Colonies. It is a shrub several feet high, with very short axillary spikes of flowers. Polynesian Natives prepare a fermented liquor from the upper portion which is a narcotic stimulant and is drunk before religious festivals.

Greenish-yellow resin – kawine, volatile oil, alkaloid, starch

Kava kava traditionally effects the nerve centres, being first a stimulant and then a relaxant, anaesthetic, chronic vaginitis, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, nocturnal incontinence, and other ailments of the genito-urinary tract.

Kava is a strong diuretic and is useful in gout, rheumatism, bronchial and other ailments, resulting from heart trouble.