Have never heard of booze specifically helping or benefiting a brain injury per se other than the above poster. Yes booze has inflammatory effects that are pretty notorious but I recently heard a bit of contradiction regarding the subject. And I'm sure people will get the wrong idea as to this being another little green light to party it up! Not sure about the specifics but actually heard that the malt and hops part of the beer do something positive to the bone structure either regarding reducing inflamation and/or perhaps heeling it. Source: heard it on the alternative medicine show, "Health Talk" on the radio. It's not really a pro alcohol show either - it's pretty impartial about the subject to say the least. Also red wine was mentioned too as to being beneficial in some way regarding basically helping bone structure in some way. Soft tissue however, I do not think was necessarily included in that. Not sure what to do with this information regarding head injuries though. Drinking freely might be a problem here. At the most, one or two drinks at dinner just to be on the safe side, especially with things like aneurysms that can burst from too much booze. I don't think it is recommend drinking more than 5 drinks per week though for anyone, which hardly seems like it would be even worth bothering.