RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

 wrote:

> It's all over Hamlet and Rockingham. Incidently, I read something on
> the internets the other day about kudzu treating binge drinking. I
> think you can preserve a leaf in butter. My cousin tried to bring some
> to Chicago to grow in his neighbor's yard he didn't like in the
> Eighties.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

I think that I have heard or read or somehow came to learn that Kudzu was a 
traditional medicine for drunkenness.  I helped to develop a state 
licensing exam for Acupuncturists once in the early 90's and I think it was 
during that period that I must have picked up that bit of trivia.