Translation by Karrol Steeves
Note: Translation may/will contain errors due to insurmountable
Excerpt from the 475th Contact-Regarding Alcohol differences between the German and the English Language, and the skill of the translator. Corrections regarding translation are welcomed.
Original text can be found here: http://www.figu.org/ch/verein/periodika/sonder-bulletin/2009/nr-49/475-kontaktgespraech?page=0,1
Billy: ... But sometimes a question that has been addressed to me regarding the drink of beer, which is drunk in large quantities especially by the people in the industrial worlds. Do you know this brew? Many people of the world are beer drinkers, both men and women, but also young people, who are drunk with alcohol and drunkenness.
Ptaah: I am oriented on that. With us, however, no beer is brewed and therefore no one is drunk. To this drink, it is also very dangerous to drink more than one deciliter* per day because it contains toxic substances that damage the liver, the heart and other organs as well as the cell tissue. Besides, the poisons also have a destructive effect on the brain, which also damages the consciousness. In addition, the eyesight is also affected by beer and other alcohol because the poisons also damage the eye tissue. Beer also makes people lax and can cause fat formation, alcoholic fatty liver hepatitis and obesity. It also affects the fast functioning of the intellect, the intelligence, and consequently of the thoughts and feelings, as well as the physical reaction and movement ability in the context of the impairment of the consciousness. Like any alcoholic beverage, including alcohol-reduced drinks, which are reduced to alcohol-free beverages, beer is also a large factor in the liver cirrhosis (Billy: Leberschrumpfung). This is a chronically advanced disease of the liver, which is characterized by the destruction of the liver cells and the reorganization of the organ structure. In this process, therefore, a progressive scarring-connective-tissue transformation is carried out. **A transformation of the liver resp. A Parenchymal structure alteration. If this modification has taken place, a restoration of normal liver function and liver architecture is no longer possible. This means that the liver function is impaired, which causes all sorts of physical ailments that lead to consciousness damage, consciousness stupor, and the delusions which you once described as an insane madness. Beer is as dangerous as wine or brandy, even in small quantities when it is regularly drunk. Chronic alcoholism is already present when alcohol is consumed several times a week, and I speak of a two or three-fold alcoholic quantity in small quantities, for this already leads to the injury of the liver and causes all sorts of ailments, as well as the damage of the consciousness, the freedom of reaction and movement of the intellect, and also of the thoughts and feelings. Alcohol, of all kinds, with beer occupying a very particular detrimental position, leads to the wrong diet, and malnutrition; even small quantities lead to slight hepatic infections, which are generally not recognized by alcohol drinkers or by any earthly doctors who may be consulted. The fact is that any kind of alcohol, especially beer, whether strong or weak alcoholic, cause metabolic disturbances and also to a large extent destroy the basic physical body, which leads to pain, malaise and nausea, etc. In addition to the above mentioned, alcoholics must also be expected to suffer bile duct occlusions and be beaten by many other health-damaging evils. This what will be briefly said, are the consequences of beer and other alcohol consumption.
Billy I did not know, but the beer I've always regarded as a sad drink.
Ptaah Other alcohols of any kind are harmful to health either in the same or similar manner, depending on the degree of strength of the alcohol and the amount of drinking.
*0.423 us customary cup
**More information on Liver disease from alcohol comsumption from the book Alcohol and Abnormal Protein Biosynthesis : https://books.google.ae/books?id=AnGLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=Parenchyma+Umbau&source=bl&ots=CxhsLp-sHq&sig=kY1jJto0YwUubxcoUJLF2TqbkOc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLiKuX3r_TAhWDRiYKHcCsBzgQ6AEIHTAB#v=onepage&q=Parenchyma%20Umbau&f=false