"You say the wine in 1 Tim. 5 is grape juice. But what good will grape juice do to ease his often stomach infirmities?"

The scripture referred to is 1Tim 5 :23 which says, Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. Grape juice was prescribed in the scriptures to keep your stomach healthy and help battle infirmities that often came about. The scripture does not say it will cure chronic stomach illnesses. A person who has not kept their stomach maintained with grape juice may be beyond the point of a simple grape-juice-fixer-upper and may be in need of serious medical help.

If you did not keep your stomach maintained and in good health (as prescribed by the above scripture), and have spent all your money on a physician to no avail, then a miracle from God is needed. If you have the faith and prefer to save the money to use in the kingdom of God for better things than ask for the miracle first. Below are some of the major benefits of grape juice.

Health Benefits of Grape Juice

Grape juice is found to have good therapeutic values. Grape juice is a good source of anti-oxidants.

Grape juice is also enriched with vitamin A, C, B6, folate, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, selenium etc. Grape juice also consists of flavonoids which is a naturally formed plant based compound.

Benefit for Heart

Flavonoids present in grape juice help you to increase the amount of good cholesterol in your body and at the same time help you to lower the risks of clogged arteries. It may also help you to lower the blood pressure.

Grape juice also increases the level of nitric oxides in the blood which in turn prevents the blood from clotting and thus lowers your risks for heart attacks. The concord grapes are found to contain a flavonoid called resveratrol.

Reduces Constipation

Grapes are ideal for avoiding constipation as it contains organic acids, cellulose, sugar etc. It may also help you in toning the stomach and intestine and thus gives your relief from chronic constipation. Grape juice is considered as a good laxative.

Brain Health

Grape juice is ideal for improving the functions of brain like co-ordination and memory. The flavonoid called resveratrol helps to lower the amount of amyloidal-beta peptides in Alzheimer’s patients and thus help them to control the development of disease. Grape juice thus can enhance the health of the brain. It can also help you to stop the attack of neurodegenerative disease.

Reduce Muscular Degeneration

Grape juice that contains ample amount of anti-oxidants helps you to prevent the age related degenerations like muscular degeneration, loss of vision. If you take grape juice three times a day then it may help you to prevent degeneration by 36 percent.

Prevent Cancer

The flavonoids, anti-oxidants etc in grape juice help you to fortify your immune system and also help you to fight with the damages caused by the free radicals present in the body. Free radicals left as such will increase your chances for getting cancer.

Proanthocyanidins and anthocyanins help to inhibit the proliferation of the cancer cells. Thus grape juice helps you to prevent the growth and proliferation of cancer especially breast cancer and colorectal cancer.

Antibacterial and antiviral activity

Plain unfermented grape-juice was found to have higher quantities of the active phenols and tannins than wine, making it an even more effective anti-viral agent. The periodical, “Science,” reported that grape-juice has 3300 milligram’s of phenols per litre. A study by Pisha et al, entitled "Fruits and vegetables containing compounds that demonstrate pharmacological activity in humans" and published in Economic and Medicinal Plant Research (1994, 6:189-233), showed that grape phenolics possess antibacterial and antiviral activities. The following phytochemicals in grape have weak antibacterial activity: hydroxybenzoic acid, salicylic acid, gallic acid and protocatechuic acid. Chlorogenic acid and epicatechin have shown antiviral activity against some viruses.

Include grape juice in your daily diet and keep yourself healthy. Juice of dark grape contains substances, reducing risk of heart diseases. Its regular drinking reduces level of cholesterol and arterial pressure. Grape juice has also bactericidal, diuretic, laxative, sudorific and expectorating effects.