Digestive: A digestif is an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage that is usually taken at the end of a meal, and is believed to aid digestion and invigorate at the end of a long meal.
In the Middle Ages, when alcohol was still reserved for medical use, we drank at the end of a meal a drink made from wine, sugar and spices: the hypocras.
At the time, spices were believed to aid digestion, and sugar was considered a medicine.
(*) Hypocras: Ancient sweet wine where we ...
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