Herbal Wines Healed Ancient Egyptians

Discovery News (14 April 2009) —  A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine to go down, but wine worked even better for the ancient Egyptians, who used to doctor their alcoholic beverages with medicinal herbs and other ingredients, according to a new study.  The oldest of the recently analyzed herbal wines dates to 3150 B.C. Since early medical papyri document the purported health benefits of some of the wine's ingredients, the discovery provides the first direct chemical evidence for wine with organic medical additives.

Red Wine Compound Resveratrol Demonstrates Significant Health Benefits

ScienceDaily (12 June 2009) — The benefits of alcohol are all about moderation. Low to moderate drinking — especially of red wine — appears to reduce all causes of mortality, buy cialis while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage.  "Reports on the benefits of red wine are almost two centuries old, tadalafil " said Lindsay Brown, associate professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Queensland and corresponding author for the study. "The media developed the more recent story of the French paradox in the early 1990s. However, studies on the actions of resveratrol, one of the active non-alcoholic ingredients, were uncommon until research around 1997 showed prevention of cancers. This led to a dramatic interest in this compound."