Green kava

If kava is to be dried for later consumption, growers wash the roots and then dry these either in the sun or in hot-air dryers (also used to produce copra, or dried coconut meat). After drying, producers pound or grind roots into a fine powder to be bagged and marketed. In places where people drink green kava, they use several techniques to... 

Kava preparation today in bars on Pohnpei, and also in Port Vila s nakamals — which feature green kava - relies on various sorts of mechanical grinders, some hand-cranked... 

Dried. S divinorum leaves were obtained from Kava Kauaii (Hawaii). To test for antimicrobials, two crude extractions of dried, powdered Salvia divinorum leaf were made. For the first extraction, 100 ml hot distilled water was used to extract 5.016 g dried leaf. Water was heated to 95 degrees Celsius and temperature of the leaf-water mixture maintained for 15 minutes. Filtering yielded 18.5 ml brown fluid. In the second extraction, 4.113 g leaf was extracted at room temperature with 25 ml acetone producing 14.0 ml of a deep, bright green solution. 

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