{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 348/1923-01-08/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Do you mean the extent to which alcohol generally is detrimental to health? Well, alcohol's initial effect is quite obvious, because it influences what we have been describing in man all along, that is, the entire constitution of the soul. In the first place, through alcohol, a person suffers a form of spiritual confusion so strong that he becomes subject to passions that otherwise are weak in him and can easily be suppressed by his reason. A person thus appears more sensible if he has had no alcohol than if he drinks. To begin with, alcohol has a stimulating influence on the blood, causing an increased circulation of the blood. This, in turn, arouses a person's passions; for example, he may more readily become furious, whereas otherwise he can control his anger more easily. So you can see that the first effect of alcohol is exercised on man's reason—indeed, on his whole life of soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Effects of Alcohol on Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-01-08","location":null,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/348/1923-01-08/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1983","book_title":"Health and Illness, Volume II","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA348/English/AP1983/19230108p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Das erste ist ja, daß der Mensch durch den Alkohol in eine Art geistiger Verwirrung kommt, die so stark wirkt, daß vor allen Dingen der Mensch dann Leidenschaften ausgesetzt ist, die sonst schwach in ihm sind und leichter durch den Verstand unterdrückt werden können, so daß er dann, wenn er nicht Alkohol getrunken hat, vernünftiger erscheint, als er erscheint, wenn er Alkohol getrunken hat. Dann wirkt der Alkohol zunächst anfeuernd auf sein Blut, und es tritt eine erhöhte Blutzirkulation ein. Das ist das erste; dadurch wird das Leidenschaftsleben erregt. Er kommt zum Beispiel leichter in Zorn, während er sonst den Zorn leichter zurückdrängen kann. 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