As we know, Alcohol used to be used as a legitimate if crude method of medicinal help back in the older days and in some cases was used specifically due to it's properties.
My proposal for Alcohol within the game as based on older treatments:
Painkiller: As Herbal Medicine cannot be used for Surgery, Alcohol itself is a method for which in older times used for painkiller for surgical methods, this would be worse then standard medicine but would allow for one to create an on demand resource that allows for surgical measures. This could also be used for those too much in pain, able to provide a colonist the ability to "ignore" a specific amount of pain and hobble back around.
Disinfectant: While not as good as typical options, several brands of alcoholic content can act as an Antiseptic and is generally cleaner then standard water supplies and could be used as a wound cleaner to help prevent infections from forming in colonists.
There's likely other uses that Alcohol could be used for, but I currently cannot remember them.
My proposal for Alcohol within the game as based on older treatments:
Painkiller: As Herbal Medicine cannot be used for Surgery, Alcohol itself is a method for which in older times used for painkiller for surgical methods, this would be worse then standard medicine but would allow for one to create an on demand resource that allows for surgical measures. This could also be used for those too much in pain, able to provide a colonist the ability to "ignore" a specific amount of pain and hobble back around.
Disinfectant: While not as good as typical options, several brands of alcoholic content can act as an Antiseptic and is generally cleaner then standard water supplies and could be used as a wound cleaner to help prevent infections from forming in colonists.
There's likely other uses that Alcohol could be used for, but I currently cannot remember them.