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SUBMITTER: Martin AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4218769 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Amanda C AC Johnston Ed E Xing Chengguo C Hegeman Adrian D AD
PloS one 20141103 11
Formerly used world-wide as a popular botanical medicine to reduce anxiety, reports of hepatotoxicity linked to consuming kava extracts in the late 1990s have resulted in global restrictions on kava use and have hindered kava-related research. Despite its presence on the United States Food and Drug Administration consumer advisory list for the past decade, export data from kava producing countries implies that US kava imports, which are not publicly reported, are both increasing and of a fairly ...[more]