Classic texts: King's 1898.
Piper methysticum
Piper methysticum G. Forst.
Engl.: kava, kava kava, ava, awa pepper shrub, intoxicating long pepper, kawa pepper.
Deu.: Kava-Kava, Kavapfeffer, Kawa-Kawa, Rauschpfeffer.
Suom.: kavakava.
Sven.: kava kava, kavapeppar.
Fran.: ava, kawa-kawa.
Extractum Piperis Methystici Fluidum.—Fluid Extract of Piper Methysticum.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Varieties.
Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1881. How milk should be taken, Forest culture, Wintergreen as an antiseptic, Oil of Cajeput in Eczema, Chaulmoogra and Gurjun oil in leprosy, Kava kava in gonorrhoea, Eucalyptus in chronic diseases of the stomach, Poultice of Jaborandi, Papain for Taenia, Apocynum cannabinum in Anasarca, Dessicated ox blood and hemoglobin, Sugar of milk as a laxative, Action of conine.
Sleep: valerian, kava, chamomile, skullcap, Mimosa.
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