#7 Vinegar vs. Alcohol

Preambulary explanation for Cajan guy(if you aren't him you can skip down): Most of my globs are going to be ten minute writings. One method that is used to get people to write more is to get them to convince themselves they are only writing for ten minutes. The must just put down their idea in that ten minutes but they must spend at least 10 minutes writing, even if it's just filling space. Once they get started people keep going and can focus on details instead of worrying they don't have anything to write. In my case I have too much to write but get concerned with being attacked so I always want to reseach something to death or predict every angle of defense before I commit to paper that others will read. Instead, 10 minute globs are where I try to throw them down with a minimum of spelling and grammar errors as I want them mostly as a record of interesting(to me and I hope you) ideas that can further discussion or controversy or enlighten or entertain.

That was 10 minutes in and of itself, whew...

Few people would have a hard time believing that a hard night of drinking might be hard on your stomach. It's hard to remember that alcohol is actually a drug instead of the "good times" social lubricant we've been inculcated into accepting it as. Personally, my stomach has taken quite a few beatings over the years and though I get up without a hangover nowadays(2000mg of vitamin C, 20 drops echinacea tincture, 500 mg Vitamin E Before drinking, and lots of water= no hangover) my stomach has been troubling me. So beer especially, is hard on my G.I. track so that like many people who drink cheap draft, I'm spending the next morning in the bathroom wasting 3 times as much time and toilet paper as usual.

This past 6 weeks, I've had some sort of infectio which I kept hoping would get better but it never did. Immodium, KaoPectate, Pepto bismal all those did nothing to really "firm" me up. Their effectiveness was limited, I mean. Hell, I even gave up drinking 4 weeks ago and that didn't help either. Finally, I turned to.....the internet. Ya, before a doctor's office, I hit the google search button for home cures for diarrhea. One that caught my eye was vinegar. I remembered my father pouring us Apple cider vinegar when we were younger and the sour taste but his insistance it was good for us. So I decided to try it, I mean I'm a Sciences Major and I have a verifiable condition, perfect for a test.

Wow. 1 Table spoon of vinegar 5 times a day controls the G.I. tract really nicely. 80 to 90 percent reduction in gas, and diarrhea was significantly reduced both in number of times per day as well as how watery. It didn't cure the cause mind you as any cessation resulted in the condition returning hence my eventual trip to the doctor (yes here in Taiwan). Sigh. He gave me a three day package of pills all of which are different bungs. Nothing to treat the underlying cause until 3 days henceforth when I return to get my "tests" which will tell him which particular bug I have. I'm betting on a non-ameobic dysentry like bacterium? Any takers?

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Moral of the story: if you are a drinker and you've just had a hard night of drinking, try drinking a couple of shots of vinegar before you go to bed, and when you wake up in the morning. It's not bad, just like you swallowed a quick package of salt and vinegar chips...

If you have any other home-remedies let me know...