Has anyone tried kava for anxiety?
I live in a small(ish) city and a kava bar just now opened up. I prepared kava many years ago by straining the root powder through pantyhose. It worked, but I wanted to try something different made by someone with more experience. I was actually looking for "instant" kava, but they only had kava shots. I didn't get anything at the bar because I didn't want to hang out there in this tiny hole-in-the-wall and talk to this lonely hippie. I got something prepackaged, a shot, and took it home.
Wow, it surprised me in its effects. It was almost a little trippy. Music was enhanced, and I just kept doing what I was doing with no negativity. It didn't last long at all, maybe 2 hours. $7 was a little too expensive, or maybe just about right, for the experience. There was no sense of "losing control" like there is with alcohol or certainly benzos.