What Are They?
Both Kava and Kratom are plant-based supplements with mood-lifting and sedative properties.
What is the Difference?
Kava is made from the roots of the kava plant, known as Piper methysticum. A plant that derives from the pepper family. The key ingredients to Kava’s effects are due to Kavalactones in the root.
Whereas Kratom comes from a plant known as the Mitragyna speciosa, an evergreen tree related to coffee.
Both come from entirely different species of plants which helps us understand how and why they act in different ways to produce their effects.
Kava can act as a sedative or produce relaxation, thus being used mainly for those with anxiety and insomnia.
Kratom can act as a pain-killer and stimulant, and thus is used for both physical and mental health promotion.