01-05-2013, 06:29 PM
(11-01-2012, 02:42 PM)Karl Wrote: You should post the results to that experiment
Hey I actually did the experiment last week (yerba mate + kava) and I forgot you even suggested it.
The native drinkers of yerba mate say that it activates the medicinal properties of other plants. I didn't notice anything with this combo. Next time I would probably drink mate on the side because I love the taste so much. It is supposed to increase the quality of bile so it could have had some effect. Mate probably goes well with any other medicinal foods/herbs just because it's so healthy and I'd be willing to bet the native mate drinkers were correct. I don't feel any effects from yerba mate by itself in the amounts I drink fyi.
But I have been using soy lecithin to enhance the kava, it does so by allowing the nonpolar kavalactones to dissolve more readily because of the fat in the lecithin, and it does so well! So for me yerba mate didn't enhance it but soy lecithin did... greatly.
I stopped taking the kratom a while ago because the tolerance killed some of the healing effects I was looking for so I will probably wait several months before trying again.
Lucky for me kava requires a reverse tolerance before you even feel the euphoria. It helps my anxiety in a much different way than kratom as well. I drink it before bed and the next day I feel a subtle but obvious sense of peace so it actually helps during the day.
I sure do enjoy experimenting with all these herbs/foods. Plants are fascinating.