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Fairytales and the impact on women

Anxiety disorders are the most common of all the mental disorders. An anxiety disorder may make you feel anxious most of the time, without any apparent reason. They can even make you feel as if you are going to die. Jonathan Davidson MD got an idea of taking the natural product of kava kava and using it as a drug to help treat anxiety and daily stress. In the South Pacific kava kava is used to help induce states of clam and as a ceremonial drug. Kava in fact might have clinically useful anxiety plummeting properties according to some European literature. However, recent cases of severe liver damage have been found with the use of kava. It was even taken off the shelves in European countries. In Germany they are thinking of just using kava for prescription use only. In the United States they are taking a closer look at kava and, so far, have not made any determination on whether or not it is too harmful for every usage.
Literature on kava for anxiety treatment was reviewed. The a...

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