1.3. Kava for the Treatment of GAD Symptoms
anxiety
The phytomedicine The Kava plant is a perennial shrub of the pepper family The proposed mechanism of the Previous Kava investigations in anxiety report significant improvements on anxiety scales, such as the HAM-A [To this end, this study aimed to investigate changes to GABA levels in the dorsal ACC in a GAD sample following the daily ingestion of Kava extract for eight weeks in comparison with a placebo group. This study also aimed to assess the relationship between GABA levels and changes to reported anxiety symptoms as a product of Kava consumption over the same period. It was expected that dACC GABA levels would decrease after Kava treatment and a reduction to anxiety symptoms would also be observed in comparison with the placebo group.