Dose - 40% Kavalactone Extract (Dose Info)

[theplunger]

Swim ordered some Kavacones at 40%. I bet I'm spelling that wrong. lol
He doesn't have a scale to measure it out, and he is about 230 LBS. So, how much and any advice on how to best take it. Swim heard it smelled bad.

Thanks

[Potter]

Well check the spelling on the product ordered first, as there's a few different things out there, and not all of them are effective.

Go get a scale, if a person is willing to spend money on drugs, they should be willing to spend money on the proper equipment to take them.

What does the container say about dosing? What sort of form is it in, powder, liquid?

[theplunger]

Originally Posted by Potter

Well check the spelling on the product ordered first, as there's a few different things out there, and not all of them are effective.

Go get a scale, if a person is willing to spend money on drugs, they should be willing to spend money on the proper equipment to take them.

What does the container say about dosing? What sort of form is it in, powder, liquid?

powder

No info on container.

[Potter]

and it says "kavacones"?

[theplunger]

Originally Posted by potter

and it says "kavacones"?

1 oz kava kava extract 40% kavalactones

[Potter]

Successful human clinical studies show that a daily dose of between 70 and 210 milligrams of kava lactones can effectively mitigate anxiety in many cases. To promote sleep, a dose of between 150 and 200 milligrams of kavalactones taken 30 to 60 minutes prior to retiring is effective. But employing kava to mitigate anxiety or sleeplessness is quite different from using kava to produce a pleasurable feeling of tranquility.

In the latter case, the kava dosages consumed will typically be much higher. At natural products conventions, I personally have dispensed concentrated fluid kava extract in doses of 600 milligrams of kavalactones to several thousand people. Many individuals consumed several cups without suffering ill effects.

Can not give source of this info sorry.

So what you should do is get a scale and assume that 60% of the material is inert, work from there.

[Thirdedge]

Starting dose for the 40% Kavalactone extract is suggested 150-300mg by a couple of vendors. This is very conservative, but a good starting range to test your reaction.

Swim personally takes two gram, he just drops it straight onto his tongue and holds there, before swallowing. Alternatively stir it into juice.

Swim thinks the 40% Kavalactone extract is one of the best extracts he has tried. Keep in mind with consuming the extract you are consuming 100% of the actives, as opposed to the root where you are only extracting a portion of the actives as some will remain in the discarded plant material. In saying that, no one knows exactly what Kavalactones in what ratio have been extracted into the extract.

[chaosx]

also just got some of this, and was also unsure of the dose. just recently purchased a scale, so swim thought this would be a great first time to use it. measured out .5 grams, used a water bottle top to hold the material, filled the cap up maybe 1/4? to reach .5 grams

effects were very baseline, just made swim tired, will try a full gram at some point in the futre.

swim is male 160lbs.

[theplunger]

swim just did about 3/4 a teaspoon with a cup of apple juice. He just ate some pizza as well, and yes he said it tasted like crap. Nothing yet. We'll see???

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Update: Swim didn't have much of a reaction. Maybe a little tired. The question is how much to increase the dose?

[Potter]

Frankly there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of danger in large quantities of Kava-kava. Some friends who were in Indonesia once spent an entire night with some old ladies drinking coconut after coconut, and while a bit hungover the next day, they didn't report any real difficulties.

At the same time, when working with any sort of concentrate, take it slowly. Try a gel cap worth, then in an hour, try another, go from there.