See also:

• KAVA (CAVA or AVA)

KAVA (CAVA or See also:

• AVA

AVA)  , an intoxicating, but non-alcoholic beverage, produced principally in the islands of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Pacific, from the roots or leaves of a variety of the See also:

• PEPPER
• PEPPER, WILLIAM (1843–1898)

pepper plant (See also:

• PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716)

Piper methysticum) . The method of preparation is somewhat See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar . The roots or leaves are first chewed by See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young girls or boys, care being taken that only those possessing See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth and excellent See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• HEALTH

health shall take See also:

• PART

part in this operation . The chewed material is then placed in a bowl, and See also:

• WATER

water or coco–See also:

• NUT
• NUT (0. Eng. knutu, cf. Dutch noot, Ger. Nuss; allied with Gael. cno; it is not of the same form as Lat. nux)

nut See also:

• MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk is poured over it, the whole is well stirred, and subsequently the woody See also:

• MATTER

matter is removed by an ingenious but See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical manipulation . The resulting liquid, whichhas a muddy or cafe-au-lait See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, or is of a greenish See also:

• HUE

hue if made from leaves, is now ready for See also:

• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption . The See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste of the liquid is at first sweet, and then pungent and acrid . The usual dose corresponds to about two mouthfuls of the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root . See also:

• INTOXICATION (Lat. toxicare, intoxicare, to smear with poison, toxicum, an adaptation of Gr. 'r(*uK v, sc. ¢apµasov, a poison smeared on arrows; roEov, bow)

Intoxication (but this apparently only applies to those not inured to the use of the liquor) follows in about twenty minutes . The See also:

• DRUNKENNESS

drunkenness produced by See also:

• KAVA (CAVA or AVA)

kava is of a See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy, silent and drowsy See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . Excessive drinking is said to See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead to skin and other diseases, but per contra many medicinal virtues are ascribed to the preparation . There appears to be little doubt that the active principle in this beverage is a See also:

• POISON

poison of an alkaloidal nature . It seems likely that this substance is not See also:

• PRESENT

present as such (i.e. as a See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• ALKALOID

alkaloid) in the plant, but that it exists in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

• GLUCOSIDE

glucoside, and that by the See also:

• PROCESS

process of chewing this glucoside is split up by one of the ferments in the saliva into the free alkaloid and See also:

• SUGAR

sugar .

See Pharm . Journ . 474; iv . 85; ix . 219; vii . 149; Comptes Rendus, 1 . 436, 598; lii . 206; Journ. de Pharm . (186o) 20; (1862) 218; Seeman, See also:

• FLORA

Flora- Vitiensis, 260; Beachy, Voyage of -the " Blossom," ii . I20 .