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Reb Eliezer
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DovidBT, I don’t know if the two are the same. In SA O’CH 204,8 says that if medicine is enjoyed because of its taste like fruit flavored Tums, we make a shehakol on it. Similarly, coffee keeping you awake, but you enjoy its taste whereas water has no extra benefit but to quench the thirst.