It’s a natural sedative and calmative and probably the most important anti-anxiety natural product out there, extremely useful and essentially no toxicity.
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Sleep aids […] are dangerous drugs. First of all they don’t reproduce natural sleep, all of them suppress dreaming, which is essential component of good sleep, they distort sleep architecture, they are addictive and they interfere with cognitive function. […] But Kava has none of these ill effects.