Best hangover cures?

[Richmond Clements]

I too usually follow the usher method.

Except for last Saturday night where, because of Bou, I drunk half a bottle of red wine.

Me method of recovery was to sit and feel terribly sorry for myself all morning.

[WoD]

I am ashamed to drink with you and David RAC...shame on you both.  Now Bou on the other hand...she I'd be proud to drink with.

1/2 bottle of wine...rraasspppp!

As for cures...no such thing, but ease your pain by heading for the pain-killers, eating lots and lots, drink plenty of water or sugary drinks and then get a pint in around lunchtime.

[Jim_Campbell]

"Coffee."

No! No! No!

Avoid coffee and coke at all costs. Caffeine is a diuretic and will make you piss - the _last_ thing you want to be doing is _losing_ liquids if you're hung over.

Rehydration is the order of the day. Water or some kind of fruit juice. Tea is OK because the body doesn't process the caffeine in tea the same way ...

Fluids and carbohydrates, as generally noted on this thread. Chewing gum is also a good one - it gets rid of the something-just-died-in-my-mouth feeling and stimulates your salivary glands, which will be underperforming badly due to the dehydration.

Trust me on this -- I'm an alcoholic.

Cheers

Jim

[Buttonman]

Irn Bru & reheated leftover kebab meat pizza

[Buddy]

Sweet Tea, toast, painkillers and a lie down watching Spaced on DVD with the sound slighty muted.

Sweet tea for inner warmth and sugar, painkillers for, well, the pain, a lie down 'cos its comphy and Spaced DVD with the sound muted to distract you from your anguish.

[Quirkafleeg]

>"Coffee." No! No! No!

Yeah but we are talking real men hear... I'm sure say Humphrey 'everyone else is four drinks behind' Bogart ever employed chewing gun to combat an hang over

There is also the Brat Pack... bag of ice on the head / strong martini... cure.

[I, Cosh]

Urrgh! If only I had purchsaed a kebab meat pizza to reheat, everyhthing would be fine.

[Keef Monkey]

My pharmacist girlfriend has just advised that milk thistle(?) before you go out and again in the morning apparently prevents hangover symptoms. Available from Boots supposedly. I usually try Usher's method of stopping after about 3 drinks but for some reason even that gives me a hangover,
Captain Lightweight

[scutfink]

Step 1) Before you go out have yourself a kick ass chilli.(settles/ lines the stomach)

Step2) Drink Shitloads.

Step 3) Either Purchase a Cheesy Chilli Chip Naan for consumption on the way home, or eat a Cheese sandwich asap after reaching your kitchen.

Step 4) Sleep.

Step 5) wake up with your alarm at five to six and take a hit of cranberry juice followed asap by an Egg and Bacon Barm.

Alternatively, I often find that large quantities of Hash trick the system into a much gentler come down.

[Tweak72]

Not sobering up can work

[Carlsborg Expert]

Lemsip. Pint of water and a wank.

[Dudley]

If you can manage a J Arthur on a hangover, I'm impressed.


Scutfink's comment reminds me - get up very early, have a long hot bath, and then a walk in the countryside.  That's what I do for all my increasingly rare hangovers.

[Carlsborg Expert]

Oh James you really are a shining light to us all.


An artisan of contempory life.

[Floyd-the-k]

1. Not drinking too much the night before

2. Stopping drinking but staying awake for another three hours and drinking loads of tea

3. That hangover cure that Jeeves makes for Wooster

4. There is apparently a drug that has the same effect as 3 (which is unfortunately fictional). Become a doctor so that you can prescribe it to yourself

[Mikey]

For me,if me head's splitting,putting on a nice warm wooly hat seems to work.I really have no explanation why.

Coke and a big bag of crisps and a film.The coke may be diuretic,but you'll replace the lost electrolytes with it and the crisps.

Talking a walk is good-get the blood moving and yer bod processing again.

M.