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Herb May Help Cut Alcohol Intake (Kudzu)
WLBT 3 ^ | July 24, 2005

Posted on 07/24/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway

An invasive vine called kudzu may help reduce alcohol intake and curb binge drinking, says new research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

The U.S. study of 14 men and women found that those who took capsules of kudzu drank an average of 1.8 beers per session, compared with 3.5 beers per session drunk by those who took a placebo, the Associated Press reported.

Researcher Scott Lukas of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital wasn't sure why kudzu seemed to reduce alcohol intake. It may be because kudzu increases blood alcohol levels and speeds up alcohol's effects, meaning that the people who took kudzu needed fewer drinks to feel drunk, Lukas suggested.

"That rapid infusion of alcohol is satisfying them and taking away their desire for more drinks. That's only a theory. It's the best we've got so far," Lukas told the AP.


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To: Hildy

As you already know, if an alcoholic takes the first drink there will be hell to pay.


41 posted on 07/24/2005 11:41:27 AM PDT by Abcdefg
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Statement: "Herb May Help Cut Alcohol Intake (Kudzu)"

Response: A little self control may help cut alcohol intake!

42 posted on 07/24/2005 11:45:20 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Why not harvest the stuff and sell it for fodder?

There aren't enough of us.

43 posted on 07/24/2005 11:49:34 AM PDT by groanup (shred for Ian)
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To: nickcarraway

Other postings on this from two months ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405447/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404766/posts


44 posted on 07/24/2005 11:57:51 AM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: groanup

Just for a lark, I was reading up on Kudzu.

There are recipes for it.

Used in oriental medicine, apparantly this treatment for alcoholism goes way back.

Said it had the nutritional value of alfalfa.


45 posted on 07/24/2005 12:02:54 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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To: nickcarraway

They're welcome to eat all the kudzu in my back yard.


46 posted on 07/24/2005 12:04:52 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: MRMEAN

grows like wild fire all over the south. Won't do them any good to ban it.


But This would be a wonderfull diet for me to get one, the ultimate Man's Man Diet Pill!!!!!!!!!


47 posted on 07/24/2005 12:12:28 PM PDT by dila813
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To: nickcarraway

One way kudzu might help drinkers avoid binge drinking is to plant the vine inside bars. Soon the drinkers would be immobilized by the clinging vines and unable to raise a bottle or glass to their lips.


48 posted on 07/24/2005 1:22:39 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: martin_fierro

LOLOL!!


49 posted on 07/24/2005 2:48:08 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: upchuck

Vine That Ate The South bump!


50 posted on 07/24/2005 2:48:52 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: nickcarraway
A cartoon strip can do that? Cool.

BTW - You have to have grown up in the south to truely understand how funny this strip is. My brother sends me copies from the Durham paper about once a month.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

51 posted on 07/24/2005 4:02:13 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Buster777

I am out in the yard already, but it keeps cutting up my mouth and it is getting stuck in my teeth. Maybe we have to crush it.


54 posted on 07/24/2005 4:30:19 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

I've got a ton of kudzu around here. I've heard that it's a good natural anti-depressant. Seems to work for my goats anyway.


55 posted on 07/24/2005 4:54:09 PM PDT by Mr. Mulliner
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To: Monti Cello
...the South is gonna rise again!!

And then apparently stagger, slip off the curb and fall over into the gutter.

56 posted on 07/24/2005 4:58:01 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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