kudzu study

Yes! That's the one I read, too. One important observation about that study is that the test-subjects were not interested in quitting their drinking, and participated in the study without the intent to quit.

Many of the review articles that you can find online portray the efficacy of kudzu as dubious, at best. I don't know if any of you would agree, but it seems to me that most people of the establishment, including the press, will constantly pay lip-service to the pharmaceutical industry. Hence the American mistrust of herbal remedies: a conflict of money-making interest on the part of pharmaceutical companies. In this country, commercially synthesized chemicals are portrayed as being more effective than time-tested herbal remedies. But I figure that if the Chinese have been using kudzu for millenia, then they must be onto something, right? How could anyone sneeze at a 2000 year-old remedy?

I like the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu

And this one mentions that the flowers of the plant are used along with the root. That's a big distinction, because some kudzu extracts on the market have only the root:
http://www.happyherbalist.com/kudzu_info_sheet.htm

I've been using the "planetary formulas" brand (called Kudzu Recovery) just because it has both root and flower. For $10 a bottle, it's a worthy investment in your sobriety. As I said in a previous post, I've been taking the stuff for 3 weeks now, and I haven't had any cravings, even when exposed to trigger-events. It's kind of weird actually, and liberating, to not constantly be obsessing over alcohol. I mean, for years I've been always at war with myself to drink or not to drink. Even if I succeeded in staying sober for a short while, I'd still be thinking about it non-stop. For the past 3 weeks I've had moments where I totally forgot that I was an alcoholic.

This is something that we should be testing and discussing on curezone. Many of us have come to curezone just because we were disatisfied with what conventional medicine has to offer. And because kudzu is an herb and not an ideology, there's no reason why kudzu and AA must be mutually exclusive.

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