Alcohol not only drink, but also used as a topical agent. Because it makes grinding, tinctures and compresses. What do you think about the local use of alcohol inside? Oxymoron some.
We are talking about alcohol during a cold. And it's not a glass of vodka after a bath.
Not. It's just different. A small dose of alcohol very well suppress obsessive dry cough and sore. I do not think there is the matter intoxicated to the degree of anesthesia. Rather alcohol acts as a defoamer.
With you it happened that when washing something mesh produces a lot of foam in the washing machine? If we add to rinse the laundry, then it fades. That spirit also acts as an anti-foaming agent.
In the middle of the last century it was fashionable to treat pulmonary edema alcohol inhalation. Imagine pulmonary edema? From the patient climbs foam, and it is suffocating. There are different variants of pulmonary edema. Sometimes oxygen inhalation with alcohol can save lives. Rough, but effective. Alcohol suppresses foam and opens the airways for oxygen.
The stories about the cough before going to bed is not so dramatic, but very similar. If a cold with a cough does not go to sleep, it is not necessarily the famous postnasal syndrome when snot stream flows into the throat. It may just be an obsessive scratchy and spasm of the vocal cords. With such a cough is very good swig of spirits.
That mouthful is good. Instantly decreases scratchy. But not at the expense of drunkenness, and by temporarily improve the flow of phlegm in the throat. So you can buy some time and go to sleep.
Tried this method? Put the bed a bottle of vodka and a couple of times before going to bed do microscopic throats. No need to bring to a significant intoxication. It is not necessary to do so for children, pregnant and lactating women.
Weird sounds? Here is a worker, but an ambiguous method. He confuses many.
I love these moments in medicine, where everyone understands what is happening, but shy.
