Because of a bowl of drink, the Australian Deputy Prime Minister vomited into the hospital on the spot. Yesterday, when Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack visited the island nation of Micronesia, the islanders sent one

Because of a bowl of drink, the Australian Deputy Prime Minister vomited into the hospital on the spot.

Yesterday, when Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack visited the island country of Micronesia, the islanders sent a bowl of local specialty drinks, and as a result, the deputy prime minister vomited on the spot, went to the hospital and was dehydrated and lethargic, and woke up for 14 hours, and once had symptoms of "cross-eyed".

What kind of drink has so much power?

This drink, called kava (also known as sakau), is one of the traditional drinks common among Pacific Islanders, taking the island's unique kava root (called hibiscus root in some places), mashing it with stones and squeezing out the juice.

Kava root is rich in six common types of kavalenone, which brings a drug-like pleasure, and is used as a painkiller by the islanders who lacked medical care in ancient times, and is also often used for insomnia and irritability, and it is said that drinking it regularly can also cause addiction. If you see many people in rows of people collapsed under trees and drowsy in island countries such as Micronesia or Kiribati, nine times out of ten, they will drink kava.

Although kava does not contain alcohol, the mouth is slightly herbal, but the slimy taste and disgusting color dissuade many tourists, so non-major occasions, the average person is only a symbolic sip, the locals are also accustomed to this performance of outsiders, few people like this deputy prime minister, directly drain a large bowl.