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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

csziggy

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3. Alcohol is inactive?

Reply to intaglio (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2014, 01:22 PM

Apr 2014

Whether organic or not, no matter what kind of alcohol, I'd hardly characterize it as "inactive"!

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound contained 18% ethanol in addition to the various herbs - I wonder if it was listed as an "inactive" ingredient?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham#Lydia_E._Pinkham.27s_Vegetable_Compound

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