--- Eva Hedin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
I think that the concept of "safe" can be fairly
relative. A lot of people ingest daily a substance
that it well known to be hepatotoxic, and which kills
many, many people every year, basically because it has
some of the same relaxing effects that kava-kava is
supposed to have. I don't think it's realistic to
consider herbs to be 100% safe as they have many
ingredients that are somewhat equivalent to regular
pharmaceuticals (if they contain real ingredients, of
course).

> Perhaps we should be grateful for ingredients being
> "non-active" rather than
> dirty, poisonous or doing exactly the opposite to
> what we want them to do.
> Just read about something called "kava-kava" which
> has been sold in Europe.
> People got liver damages and one person died.
> Apparently producers have
> started using stem and leaves compared to earlier
> use of only the root. It
> is from the South Pacific area and has been used for
> 1000 years so people of
> course thought it safe.
>



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