Ashwagandha
- Taking 300 mg day and night
- Dose can go up to 1500 mg a day for maximal effectiveness, just no more than that
- As with other supplements start with low dose and make your way up as needed
- Take after meals
- Can be taken in coordination with most other supplements and medications
- Especially helpful if you have trouble sleeping
- Relatively mild side effects
- Out of the three substances, is the least psychoactive and most suitable for daily use
- Best for everyday stress
- Very accessible in a variety of shops and pharmacies
Marijuana
- The basic principal for dosing medical marijuana is to start with low dose and go up slowly in order to achieve the desired effect.
- For oral cannabis products, there is not yet an agreed-upon standard dose of THC. Although some experts propose using 5 mg as a standard dose, this is double what cannabis experts recommend that their patients start with: 2.5 mg. In fact, 5 mg can cause unpleasant effects for some people, and women are also more sensitive to the effects of 5 mg THC than men.
- Compared to swallowing THC, inhaling cannabis has some benefits: It’s easier to find the right dose or amount, and the effects do not last as long.
Kava
- No more than 250 milligrams a day
- Avoid using this drug for more than 3 months unless prescribed
- Kava can be taken with other drugs but it is advised and recommended to be taken by itself since it already has strong effects on its own
- In high doses can make you extremely relaxed and euphoric – almost as if you were high
