so, valerian seems to be garbage for taking the edge off my anxiety. kava-kava seems hideously unreliable; I've had good results from one or two commercial preparations but most make feel kinda weird and a little sick even. theanine has been recommended...is there anything else?
@kara_dreamer STRONG tea made of valerian, catnip, skullcap with damiana optional.
@IanCBell hm. the valerian "supplement" I tried made me feel worse, but possibly proper valerian tea wouldn't...
@kara_dreamer ugh the pills never agreed with me either. That's a lot of concentrated aromatics and so forth to drop in one's stomach.
@IanCBell ah! so maybe this is a case of delivery mechanism being key to success. I suspect this is true of many things that are naïvely packed into capsules and sold OTC