Bitter Drink

Bitter drink is a makeshift healing consumable item in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Primarily carried by Legion troops, the bitter drink is a useful healing item. It is roughly twice as strong as healing powder and without the usual side-effects that come from the use thereof - making it a highly effective means for replenishing your health outside of combat (assuming a high Survival skill, if allowed to heal its full amount over time, it can heal more than a stimpak).

Only a few healing items actually recover more HP over time, and all of those that are crafted or are otherwise uncommon sights; brahmin steaks, Nuka-Cola Quartz, Nuka-Cola Victory, making the bitter drink somewhat unique. Bitter drinks count as a chem, rather than a drink.

Bitter drinks are good for when you combat poisonous creatures and lack an antivenom. The HP regeneration from a bitter drink can offset a poison effect's ongoing damage, ergo increasing your chances of survival and freeing up resources for that critical emergency healing only stimpaks can provide.