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Experimental Drug "Caffeinol" Tested
dan.hunt writes "Two of my favorite things: Cafeine and Alcohol have been combined into a new medicine. 'The idea of mixing alcohol and caffeine was "serendipitous", Grotta told HealthScoutNews.' I am sure a lot of /. readers knew that Irish Coffee was good for you. I will mix two strong cups of coffee with one ounce or two of Irish Cream http://www.baileys.com/ and one ounce or two of Sambuca http://www.luxardo.it/ to get a taste for this medical research."
Buzz beer: stay up late and get drunk all over again.
And the dose of alcohol is small, the dose of caffein relatively large.
Alcohol alone makes the bain damage worse. Does not work as preventive measure.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Irish coffee, aka "God's Blessing" (see, Callahan's Cross-Time Salloon by Spider Robinson):
1 cup freshly-made Jamaica Blue Mountain
1.5 ounce Bushmill's Black Label Irish Whiskey
top with Whipped cream if you really feel motivated to gild the lily of perfection.
utter rubbish
I can't vouch personally for caffeine's usefulness at anything else, but I used to have horrific migraines for years, often 2-3 a week which would last more than a day each. I'd been hospitalised a few times, had bunches of scans done, and tried dozens of drugs, variations to my diet, exercise and the like
Turns out that for me the most effective relief is, when I start seeing auras over everything (which comes 20 minutes before the pain) I take a double strength coffee with double sugar, 2 aspirin, and sit quietly. Within half an hour it's easing off, and I'm back to normal within 1. They still take me out of action for an hour at a time, but that is FAR preferable to the feeling of having nails rammed into my eyes for 24 hours straight. That little fix also makes it far less likely another one will come along within a week. It's bliss!