Liver Function Test Abnormalities in Users of Aqueous Kava Extracts
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology
- Vol. 41 (6) , 821-829
Abstract
Introduction. Hepatic toxicity from manufactured herbal remedies that contain kava lactones has been reported in Europe, North America, and Australia. There is no evidence for serious liver damage ...Keywords
This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
- Diversity of substance use in eastern Arnhem Land (Australia): patterns and recent changesDrug and Alcohol Review, 2002
- Methods: Validity and utility of community health workers' estimation of kava useAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2002
- Kava HepatotoxicityAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2001
- Drug points: Hepatitis associated with Kava, a herbal remedy for anxietyBMJ, 2001
- Kava in Arnhem Land: a review of consumption and its social correlatesDrug and Alcohol Review, 2000
- Nekrotisierende Hepatitis nach Einnahme pflanzlicher HeilmittelDMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1998
- Substance, Symbol And PracticeCanberra Anthropology, 1995
- Patterns of petrol sniffing and other drug use in young men from an Australian Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, Northern TerritoryDrug and Alcohol Review, 1995
- "The Water of Life": Kava Ritual and the Logic of SacrificeEthnology, 1986
- Psychoactive Substances of the South Seas: Betel, Kava and PituriAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1985