Interesting. Thanks.
http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1050408305142450.xml To protect brain after a stroke, Irish coffee may be drug of choice An experimental drug delivering the potency of two cups of strong coffee and a mixed drink has been shown to be safe in a small study of stroke patients. Researchers previously had found that the coffee-alcohol mixture limited stroke-induced brain damage in rats.
In the rat studies, the size of brain damage was reduced as much as 80 percent when a combination of caffeine and ethanol, called caffeinol, was administered within three hours after a stroke. "Neither caffeine or alcohol offered protection alone, but the combination was protective," said Dr. James C. Grotta, professor of neurology and director of the stroke program at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.