Posted on 12/25/2008 12:52:59 PM PST by dynachrome
The French call it "la gueule de bois," or wooden mouth. For Germans, it's "Kater," or a tomcat. Japanese know it as "futsukayoi," or "two-days drunk." But whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness, dry mouth... the list of evils is long.
In Roman times, Pliny the Elder swore by raw owls' eggs.
In Elizabethan England, a pair of eels suffocated in wine was touted as the trick. Green frogs were an acceptable substitute for those who were out of eels.
In the 19th century, hungover chimney sweeps would sip warm milk with a teaspoon of soot added.
Look around today, and the Internet has unleashed an explosion in proposed hangover fixes, from fried food and the hair of the dog to expensive formulae derived from plant extracts.
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
Decadron.
Easy remedy. Don’t drink alcoholic beverages...no hangover.
After looking that up, I think I will stick with the eels!
But then how do you manage simple chores, say, like driving an automobile?
I know, seriously. It’s almost as if he/ she hasn’t thought it through. Cheers!
Hair of the dog has always worked for me. Of course, I haven’t had a hangover in quite a few decades. But I have never found anything that works as well.
I agree..gives you just enough of a buzz to take the edge off..of course, the best thing I’ve found when I wake up with one, is to get something to eat then go back to sleep for a few hours..seems to work pretty well..
dude..if it weren’t for the DT’s, I wouldn’t get ANY exercise..:)
One of my friends swears by Bourbon and ginger ale. I preferred beer or Bloody Marys.
When I was in a fraternity, we frequently had guys who drank way too much. Once they got into that “I’ll take a shot of anything” mode, we gave them a shot of Syrup of Ipecac and shoved their head out of a window.
I’ve found the cure for a hangover is not nearly so important as taking the ‘hangover pledge’:
“I swear that I will never, *ever*, drink again!...
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...and this time, I mean it!”
;-)
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