TY  - BOOK
ED  - Pacific Health Research Council.
TI  - Kava and Pacific health
T2  - Anthology series / Pacific Health Research Council
SN  - 982515005X
U1  - 615.32325 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Suva, Fiji
PB  - Pacific Health Research Council
KW  - Kava (Beverage)
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Composition
KW  - Physiological effect
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Kava plant
N1  - 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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