#KAVA

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Her and coffee, perfect morning. ♡

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"I ship them because of their canon interactions!" "I ship them because of the dynamic!" "I ship them because they're my favorites!" WRONG I ship them because they are aesthetically pleasing to look at on screen together

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"In New Zealand, Pacific Island scientists have just been given a large grant to run a study trial on the use of the traditional kava preparation and kava ceremony for treating PTSD.

Believing it could help treat PTSD and other trauma in soldiers and veterans, police officers, and corrections facility staff, the two scientists want to revise the reputation of kava, which was damaged by a pharmaceutical rush into the product some years ago.

Dr. Apo Aporosa of Fijian descent on his mother’s side, and Dr. Sione Vaka from Tonga, have received $1 million from the Health Research Council to combine kava drink with the traditional ceremony of conversation.

“I’m so stoked that Health Research Council has faith in us as a team to do this critically important work,” Dr. Aporosa told the NZ Herald. “It’s likely we’re going to spend a million dollars to prove what traditional Pacific knowledge has been trying to tell Europeans for the last 200 years.”

Kava comes in many traditional names, all relating to the root of the Piper methysticum plant. Across the islands of the Pacific, the root was stirred in water and drank for its subtle euphoric, but also sedative properties. Accompanying the drink was a Talanoa or what Dr. Aporosa is referring to as “talk therapy,” but what was essentially a heart-to-heart conversation.

Their study will take two groups of people and give them both the whole kava drink plus the talanoa, referred to as “the full package” while another group will receive just the talanoa, and another group just the kavalactones—the active ingredient in the plant.

In 2009, the Cochrane Institute confirmed that kava was probably more effective than placebo for treating anxiety. At the time, pharmaceutical and supplement companies had quickly isolated kavalactones and sold them as a natural relaxant.

Like most indigenous populations, New Zealand’s Māori population suffers from higher rates of stress, trauma, and anxiety than the national average, and the Health Research Council believes that the Kava ceremony is the most sensible way to fulfill this unmet need.

“We do know that… talk therapy works for some PTSD cases,” Dr. Aporosa said, adding that talanoa is basically talk therapy, done while sitting on the floor rather than in chairs.

“We know that kava has relaxant properties, that kava is a natural anti-anxiety medication, so we combine those two elements in a culturally influenced space, and we’ve got something here that’s unique.”

Aporosa understands the situation better than most. Not only is he from Pacific stock, but he was a police officer who had to leave the force due to PTSD from the line of duty.

His experience traveling the world speaking with former military and police got him the Fulbright Scholarship to study the kava ceremony in Hawai’i, another island culture that uses the plant.

His hope is to show that it works significantly in the trial, and then release a free e-book about how to perform the ceremony and intervention, in order to ensure the largest number of people can access the knowledge of this traditional Pacific medicine."

-via Good News Network, July 5, 2023

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Kava.

Kava.

Kava!!!!!!

They’re real to me 😔💔💔💔

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[lifeinbooks]

nemoj da propustiš život zbog toga što nemaš sa kim otići na kavu,na more,u Pariz. Idi sama ženo bre, i ne trebaš da brineš šta kaže svijet.

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#2407 - Piper excelsum - Kawakawa 

AKA Macropiper excelsum. The name kawakawa comes from the Māori kawa meaning bitter, and while it certainly is, probably refers to the related Kava (Piper methysticum) which can't grow in New Zealand's cooler climate but is widely used in the Pacific Islands to produce a ritual drink with medicinal, anesthetic, euphoriant, and entheogenic properties. The Māori word kawa also means "ceremonial protocol"

A small tree endemic to New Zealand; the subspecies P. e. subsp. psittacorum is found on Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands.

Kawakawa was used as a medicinal plant by the Māori. An infusion made from leaves or roots or chewed leaves were used to relieve toothache, and wounds were often bound in kawakawa leaves. The edible yellow berries were eaten as a diuretic. Traditionally, leaves with holes chewed by caterpillars of the kawakawa looper moth (Cleora scriptaria) were considered the best to use - not implausible, if the plant increases production of bioactive molecules in response to insect attack.

In cultural contexts, host people of a marae wave leaves of kawakawa to welcome guests. At a tangi, both hosts and guests may wear wreaths of kawakawa on the head as a sign of mourning.

Early European settlers to New Zealand used kawakawa in teas, and experimented using it as a flavouring agent in beer. Since the contains the deliriant myristicin, this was probably a memorably bad idea.

New Plymouth, Taranaki Ringplain, New Zealand

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Oh boy more D&Ds!

I'm about to join a new campaign, gonna be playing this very excitable Artificer Kava! She has a grumpy fire chicken steel defender known lovingly as BONC.

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ships that have a chokehold on my brain as of today

gweather + duntrent pref together but apart also works

bridgney

kava

noco (when does it not)

aleduncan

courkatie and lindsadie but only as a package deal (???)

deather (my rise in love for duncan seems to be taking effect on shipping)

jock.

nichaxel (i'm so late to the party it's upsetting but I want to write a fic abt them)

primien (brainrot returned after the fall of prileb)

and mkulia just like the rest of us

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your ears.

Kava is the best drug I know. Piper methysticum my beloved. Stir the powder. Play with water. Drank. Steep it over and over. It makes the throat drool. It makes the poop good. It preserves the brain and gives the soul calm. It gives you love and quiets the horny. Anxiety is impossible. Wrath is impossible. Empathy yes.

You cannot mix it with alcohol. I mean you can but it ruins the liver and gives you a bad time.

It is not addictive, long-term effects are dry skin that goes away if you take a break.

Does it taste like peppery mud? Yos. But you can mix it with cocoa if you want.

Adhd peeps, it helps like weed does but without the paranoia or the sinking into silliness. Get your kava today, share it with the friends. Kava, the drink of peace, the drink of friendship!

I have had difficult discussions be peaceful and constructive thanks to kava. I've had people not interrupt others because the drink makes chatty people calm and shy people confident enough to pipe up. It's good!

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