Good for your heart.
Posted on 07/02/2002 12:00:23 PM PDT by Cagey
Doctors in a Romanian hospital say a pilot scheme to treat patients with vodka to save money on medicine is proving a success.
Heart patients have been asked to go each morning to the Recovery Clinic in Cluj Napoca to take their 30 grams of the spirit.
Doctors say the alcohol lowers their cholesterol levels for a fraction of the price of specialist medicines.
They started an experiment using 60 patients suffering from certain heart conditions. A local company donated 100kg of vodka.
Professor Dumitru Zenghea, who coordinates the experiment, told the Libertatea newspaper: "We started this research last year in autumn.
"We were trying to find a way to replace some expensive medicines and obtain a normalization of cholesterol.
"Thus we thought using a small quantity of alcohol may have the same effect. And the results are encouraging."
Doctors said they decided to use vodka because it is a pure product, it is very cheap and the overall treatment becomes affordable for the heart patients.
They stressed that the patients used in the experiment are not suffering from diseases that can be aggravated by alcohol. Doctors also advise other heart patients to continue their regular treatment and not start drinking vodka.
"What we are doing here is a research and cannot be put into practice yet," Dr. Zenghea said.
Story filed: 11:13 Tuesday 2nd July 2002
Good for your heart.
If this is true, I should have the lowest cholesterol level on the planet.........but I prefer Stoli
My parents used to talk of my grandfather in his 90’s being told by the doctor to drink a shot of whisky every day.
Problem was he was a teetotaler and had a fit but it was Doctors orders.
So granddad got himself a bottle of the cheapest rotgut whisky he could find.
Then he would take it while holding his nose over the sink, with a tablespoon like any other medicine.
"White wine is lame, red wine is in vain, but vodka goes straight to the heart!"
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