Kava and Anxiety

Anxiety is a state of intense apprehension, uneasiness, uncertainty, or fear resulting from the anticipation of a threatening event or situation, often to a degree that the normal physical and psychological functioning of the affected individual is disrupted.
The psychological side of anxiety includes a specific conscious inner attitude and a peculiar feeling state characterized by:

1. a physically, as well as mentally, painful awareness of being powerless to do anything about a personal matter;
2. by presentiment of an impending and almost inevitable danger;
3. by a tense and physically exhausting alertness as if facing an emergency;
4. by an apprehensive self-absorption which interferes with an effectrive and advantageous solution of reality's problems; or
5. by an irresolvable doubt concerning the nature of the theatening evil, concerning the probability of the actual appearence of the threat, concerning the best objective means of reducing or removing eht evil, and concerning one's subjective capacity for making effective use of those means if and when the emergency arises.

(Z. Piotrowski)

The following articles deal with anxiety, and the use of kava in the treatment of it:

A homeopathic treatment of anxiety
Description of a succussful treatment by naturopathic physician Deborah Frances, N.D.

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