Moderate consumption of wine or beer may help rid the body of a type of bacteria long suspected of causing peptic ulcers, according to a team of researchers in the United Kingdom.
Helicobacter pylori, which can burrow holes in the stomach wall, may be responsible for most peptic ulcers. However, H. pylori does not cause ulcers in everyone whom it infects; scientists think certain substances may either activate it or combat it.
The Bibles states :That Apostle Paul adviced his fellow servant Timothy to drink a little wine for the sake of his stomach research study show that wine can cure peptic ulcer that cause stomach pain.
1 Timothy 5:23 ” Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.
“It is widely believed that the infection is acquired in childhood and that it is usually lifelong, unless specific therapy [such as antibiotics] is used to eradicate it,” said co-author Liam Murray, an epidemiologist at Queen’s University in Belfast. “However, it may be spontaneously eradicated in some instances.”
The team’s study, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, involved more than 10,000 patients, from 20 to 59 years old, at seven health centers in or near Bristol, England. Between 1996 and 1998, the volunteers underwent tests for H. pylori and filled out questionnaires on their childhood living conditions, their current lifestyle and their drinking habits. (The study defined a glass of wine, a shot of spirits, or a half-pint of beer as one unit.)
Those who drank more than seven glasses of wine or three to six units of beer per week had a 17 percent lower chance of an H. pylori infection than nondrinkers. Participants who drank three to six glasses of wine or one to two units of beer per week showed an 11 percent lower risk. However, drinking more than 14 units of beer per week or consuming spirits in any amount were linked to an increased risk.
The researchers theorized that beer and wine’s antibacterial effects may be due to components such as polyphenols, which are abundant in both beverages.
Wine is good for the heart :
In Psalms 104: 15 ” Wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
Red wine, in moderation, has long been thought of as heart healthy. The alcohol and certain substances in red wine called antioxidants may help prevent coronary artery disease, the condition that leads to heart attacks. Any links between red wine and fewer heart attacks aren’t completely understood.
Wine is good for Disinfectant:
In the Bible Luke 10:34 “tells the story of the Good Samaritan :He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
As more recent research has revealed, wine may have actually been useful as a disinfectant – that is, if it was strong enough, which most wines today are not. … Typhoid bacillus, for example, was killed off after only 30 seconds when exposed to wine with a 50 percent alcohol level.
Wine can used for pain releaver:
In Proverbs 31:6 “Alcohol is for people who are dying, for those who are in misery.
Alcohol is a pretty effective pain reliever, a new study spotted by The Independent finds—in some cases, better than some painkillers. New research in the Journal of Pain examined 18 different studies on pain and alcohol use with a total of more than 400 participants.
Researchers from the University of Greenwich in London found that for every drink consumed, participants reported a small reduced sensitivity to pain. But that effect added up: After three drinks for men and two drinks for women, the painkilling impact increased to “moderate-large.”
Drinking raised people’s pain thresholds a little, making them rate pain as less intense. For moderate pain levels, the researchers found that “analgesic [pain-relieving] effects of alcohol on pain intensity are comparable to opioids.”
In a comment to The Sun, lead researcher Trevor Thompson drew parallels between alcohol and traditional painkilling drugs. “It can be compared to opioid drugs such as codeine, and the effect is more powerful than paracetamol,” he said.
It’s not clear what effect alcohol has on the body that causes this pain relief. The researchers hypothesize that based on studies in mice, it may be that it blocks the transmission of pain signals in the spinal cord. But they also suggest alcohol’s anxiety-relieving properties may play a role.
Booze is cheap compared to prescription drugs, so it’s not really a good thing that it’s such an effective painkiller. To get the pain-relieving effects, you’d have to drink more than the 10–20 grams of ethanol that many international health organizations [PDF] recommend as your daily maximum. (A single 12-ounce beer has around 14 grams.)
Because alcohol makes people in pain feel good, there’s an incentive to keep using it. Eventually, you’ll need to drink more to get the same amount of pain relief, and you could become dependent on it. Being in chronic pain is bad for your health, but so is alcohol abuse, so in some cases, people might just be trading one problem for another.
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