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Kava and Pacific health.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthology series (Suva, Fiji)Publisher: Suva, Fiji : Pacific Health Research Council, 2002Description: v, 344 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 982515005X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.32325 22
Contents:
Overview and epidemiology of kava -- Kava kava : gift of the islands / Gary Piscopo -- Kava : an overview / Yadhu N. Singh -- Parameters of kava used as a challenge to alcohol / John Cawte -- Kava alcohol and tobacco consumption among Tongans with urbanization / Sitaleka A. Finau, John M. Stanhope, Ian A. M. Prior -- Kava drinking in Vanuatu / Robert F. Grace -- Research bibliography of alcohol and kava studies / Mac Marshall -- The function of kava in modern Samoan culture / Lowell D. Holmes -- Kava update no. 1 / E. J. Minchinton, T. F. Holo -- Pharmacology of kava -- Highlights of the chemistry and pharmacology of yaqona / R. N. Duve -- Characterization and physiological activity of some kava constituents / R. Hänsel -- Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs (Chairman's introduction) / Georg E. Cronheim -- Pharmacology of kava / Hans J. Meyer -- Pharmacology of kava / Joseph P. Buckley, Angelo R. Furgiuele, Maureen J. O'Hara -- Discussion on kava / Geor E. Ronheim ... [et al.] -- Studies on kava carbohydrates / Subramaniam Sotheeswaran, Mirja R. Sharif, Wilfred T. Mabusela -- Gas-liquid chromatographic determination of major constituents of Piper methysticum / R. N. Duve -- Efficacy of extraction of constituents in the preparation of yaqona beverage / R. N. Duve, J. Prasad -- Quality evaluation og yaqona (Piper methysticum) in Fiji / Ram N. Duve, Jagendra Prasad -- Yaqona research : some facts / R. N. Duve -- The chemistry and pharmacology of kava (Piper methysticum) / R. N. Duve -- Kava and animal models -- Development of tolerance to kava in mice / P. H. Duffield, D. Jamieson -- Central activity of aqueous extracts of Piper methysticum (kava) / A. Furgiuele ... [et al.] -- Antistrychnine potency of pyrone compounds of the kava root / R. Kretzschmar, H. J. Teschendor -- Extract of kava (Piper methysticum) and its methysticin constituents protect brain tissue against ischemic damage in rodents / Cord Backhauss, Josef Krieglstein -- Effects of kava on neuromuscular transmission and muscle contractility / Y. N. Singh -- Antimicrobial activity and anti-complement activity of extracts obtained from selected Hawaiian medicinal plants / C. P. Locher ... [et al.] -- Antithrombotic action of the kava pyrone (+)-kavain prepared from Piper methysticum on human platelets / Johannes Gleitz ... [et al.] -- General health effects of kava -- Effect of kava in normal subjects and patients / Carl C. Pfeiffer, Henry B. Murphree, Leonide Goldstein -- Macabre effects of a "cult" for kava / John Cawte -- Effects of the heavy usage of kava on physical health : summary of a pilot survey in an aboriginal community / John D. Mathews ... [et al.] -- Kava and the Australian aborigine / Subramaniam Sotheeswaran -- Kava and kava diseases in Western Samoa / Elizabeth Minchinton, John F. Brown -- Some specific health effects of kava -- Medical aspects of yaqona / A. S. Frater -- The adverse effects of kava / Ruci Kava -- Kava-induced dermopathy : a niacin deficiency? / Patricia Ruze -- The correlation between cancer incidence and kava consumption / Gregory G. Steiner -- The relationship between sakau (kava) and gastritis / Janice Ngirasowei, Joji Malani -- Kava : a safe herbal treatment for anxiety / Kerry Bone -- Some visual effects caused by the beverage kava / Leon F. Garner, Jeremy D. Klinger -- Kava - the unfolding story : report on a work-in-progress / Alison Denham, Michael McIntyre, Julie Whitehouse -- Response to reported hepatotoxicity of high lactone extractions of Piper methysticum Forst. (kava) / Peter Whitton, Julie Whitehouse, Christine Evans.
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A compilation of papers that have been previously published.

Includes bibliographical references.

Overview and epidemiology of kava -- Kava kava : gift of the islands / Gary Piscopo -- Kava : an overview / Yadhu N. Singh -- Parameters of kava used as a challenge to alcohol / John Cawte -- Kava alcohol and tobacco consumption among Tongans with urbanization / Sitaleka A. Finau, John M. Stanhope, Ian A. M. Prior -- Kava drinking in Vanuatu / Robert F. Grace -- Research bibliography of alcohol and kava studies / Mac Marshall -- The function of kava in modern Samoan culture / Lowell D. Holmes -- Kava update no. 1 / E. J. Minchinton, T. F. Holo -- Pharmacology of kava -- Highlights of the chemistry and pharmacology of yaqona / R. N. Duve -- Characterization and physiological activity of some kava constituents / R. Hänsel -- Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs (Chairman's introduction) / Georg E. Cronheim -- Pharmacology of kava / Hans J. Meyer -- Pharmacology of kava / Joseph P. Buckley, Angelo R. Furgiuele, Maureen J. O'Hara -- Discussion on kava / Geor E. Ronheim ... [et al.] -- Studies on kava carbohydrates / Subramaniam Sotheeswaran, Mirja R. Sharif, Wilfred T. Mabusela -- Gas-liquid chromatographic determination of major constituents of Piper methysticum / R. N. Duve -- Efficacy of extraction of constituents in the preparation of yaqona beverage / R. N. Duve, J. Prasad -- Quality evaluation og yaqona (Piper methysticum) in Fiji / Ram N. Duve, Jagendra Prasad -- Yaqona research : some facts / R. N. Duve -- The chemistry and pharmacology of kava (Piper methysticum) / R. N. Duve -- Kava and animal models -- Development of tolerance to kava in mice / P. H. Duffield, D. Jamieson -- Central activity of aqueous extracts of Piper methysticum (kava) / A. Furgiuele ... [et al.] -- Antistrychnine potency of pyrone compounds of the kava root / R. Kretzschmar, H. J. Teschendor -- Extract of kava (Piper methysticum) and its methysticin constituents protect brain tissue against ischemic damage in rodents / Cord Backhauss, Josef Krieglstein -- Effects of kava on neuromuscular transmission and muscle contractility / Y. N. Singh -- Antimicrobial activity and anti-complement activity of extracts obtained from selected Hawaiian medicinal plants / C. P. Locher ... [et al.] -- Antithrombotic action of the kava pyrone (+)-kavain prepared from Piper methysticum on human platelets / Johannes Gleitz ... [et al.] -- General health effects of kava -- Effect of kava in normal subjects and patients / Carl C. Pfeiffer, Henry B. Murphree, Leonide Goldstein -- Macabre effects of a "cult" for kava / John Cawte -- Effects of the heavy usage of kava on physical health : summary of a pilot survey in an aboriginal community / John D. Mathews ... [et al.] -- Kava and the Australian aborigine / Subramaniam Sotheeswaran -- Kava and kava diseases in Western Samoa / Elizabeth Minchinton, John F. Brown -- Some specific health effects of kava -- Medical aspects of yaqona / A. S. Frater -- The adverse effects of kava / Ruci Kava -- Kava-induced dermopathy : a niacin deficiency? / Patricia Ruze -- The correlation between cancer incidence and kava consumption / Gregory G. Steiner -- The relationship between sakau (kava) and gastritis / Janice Ngirasowei, Joji Malani -- Kava : a safe herbal treatment for anxiety / Kerry Bone -- Some visual effects caused by the beverage kava / Leon F. Garner, Jeremy D. Klinger -- Kava - the unfolding story : report on a work-in-progress / Alison Denham, Michael McIntyre, Julie Whitehouse -- Response to reported hepatotoxicity of high lactone extractions of Piper methysticum Forst. (kava) / Peter Whitton, Julie Whitehouse, Christine Evans.

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