Experience the calming effects of Kava from Fiji's Vanua Levu, renowned for its high quality and traditional farming. This lush area yields kava with strong flavor and effects, thanks to skilled local farmers. At Wolf Kava, we focus on quality, carefully extracting our premium kava to keep its properties, making it perfect for reducing stress, anxiety, and insomnia. Choosing Wolf Kava lets you enjoy the true spirit of Fiji. Enhance your wellness routine with our outstanding kava and find peace in tradition.
Kava Origin
The tradition of kava has brought people together and consummated important social occasions in the Pacific for 3000 years. Kava is found in the South Pacific and is traditionally drunk by many of the island cultures. Although the exact origin of kava is still debated, the largest number of species of kava plants are grown in Vanuatu and Fiji. Each of the different islands has their own unique kava strains with distinct flavors and effects, ranging from muscle relaxation and stress relief to uplifted mood and euphoria. Kava is highly regarded for its medicinal properties as its calming effects make it a natural remedy for a variety of ailments such as insomnia, stress, and anxiety. Fascinating as this might be, kava is much more than an herbal restorative and has remained deeply rooted in island culture for centuries.
Kava is used largely throughout the islands during social gatherings, religious & cultural ceremonies, and political practices. In Fiji, kava is named the national drink and has a symbolic function of bringing two groups of people together. When one visits a new village, it is mandatory to bring the kava root as a gift. The community then gathers to prepare the beverage. Once ready, the person leading the group will say “BULA'', meaning “to long life and good health” in Fijian
Just as the people and cultures changed, morphed and evolved, so, too, did kava—its consumption methods, religious associations and even the quality of the brew.
What makes it so Important?
Within kava there are at least 18 active ingredients that matter for the medicinal and psychoactive purposes. Six of these are responsible for 90 per cent of the oily resin you get when you mix kava. Each one of these ingredients has different effects, different properties, different uses.”
Dihydrokavain, for example, decreases the size of your blood vessels. That’s responsible for the numbness in your mouth. Kavain, most commonly investigated as an agent for reducing anxiety, is very short lived and peaks in the brain within five minutes. Heavier kavalactones, which were far more prominent in the old, wild kava, peak in your brain within two hours, stay for much, much longer and are far more likely to cause nausea.
