What is the difference between kava and kava kava?
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Kava (Piper methysticum) (Piper Latin for "pepper", methysticum Greek for "intoxicating") is an ancient crop of the western Pacific. Other names for kava include ʻawa (Hawaii), 'ava (Samoa), yaqona (Fiji), and sakau (Pohnpei). The word kava is used to refer both to the plant and the beverage produced from it.
Kava Kava is a rock band / live dance act from Huddersfield in the UK.
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It's the same thing. There are a lot of natural plants, herbs, and other things commonly found in supplements that have different variations of the same name... usually because a few people misinterpreted the item when it was first discovered or to make it easier to say.
Many common examples are herbs that have multiple names (oftentimes the same plant found by multiple people that thought they were the first to find it), Amino Acids (like L-Carnitine listed as "Carnitine" to make it easier), Kava Kava (listed as just "Kava" to make it easier), etc, etc.
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