{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The task of the head is namely to fight what starch and sugar want. What do starch and sugar want? You only have to look at wine. Isn't it true that when autumn comes, you harvest the wine, the grapes. They are pressed and then the mixture ferments. What is left after the process is enjoyed as wine. Now, because wine has become wine through fermentation, it has overcome fermentation. But when you bring wine into the stomach, something is created from it that in turn goes into the food. The alcohol is almost transformed back. And now the substances that want to ferment directly are starch and sugar. Starch and sugar in the human organism want to ferment. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol in the head drives away the forces that prevent the fermentation of sugar and starch in the human body. Let's take the story very clearly. Say you ate potatoes and beans on January 22nd and drank alcohol with them. Well, if you hadn't drunk alcohol, your head would have stayed sober. Potatoes and beans contain starch and sugar, which is produced from the starch; the head would have the power to properly prevent the fermentation of starch and sugar. If you take alcohol, the head loses the ability to prevent the fermentation of starch and sugar that you have taken in with the potatoes, and the potatoes and beans, and also the other things, cereals for example, begin to ferment in you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Stärke und Zucker im menschlichen Organismus wollen vorzugsweise gären. Wenn Sie Alkohol trinken, dann vertreibt der Alkohol im Kopf die Kräfte, welche die Gärung von Zucker und Stärke im Menschen verhindern. Nehmen wir einmal die Geschichte ganz deutlich. Sagen wir, Sie haben am 22. Januar Kartoffeln gegessen, Bohnen gegessen und Alkohol dazu getrunken. Nun schön. Hätten Sie keinen Alkohol getrunken, so wäre der Kopf nüchtern geblieben. Kartoffeln und Bohnen enthalten Stärke und Zucker, der aus der Stärke entsteht; der Kopf hätte die Kraft, die Gärung von Stärke und Zucker richtig zu verhindern. Bringen Sie Alkohol hinein, so verliert der Kopf die Fähigkeit, die Gärung von Stärke und Zucker, die Sie mit den Kartoffeln hineingekriegt haben, zu verhindern, und die Kartoffeln und Bohnen, und auch die anderen Dinge, Getreidearten zum Beispiel, fangen an in Ihnen zu gären.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-01-23/p022"}],"english":["GA 352/1924-01-23/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":252,"en_words":247,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6328,"original_word_count":6181,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240123p02.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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