Hangovers are no fun after a night that was maybe a little too fun. And, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be one good, reliable cure for the occasionally inevitable hangover.
Hangovers, also known as veisalgia, are basically a case of alcohol withdrawal.
For every nationality there seems to be a different, traditional cure.
The Irish recommend getting buried to the neck with moist river sand. The Polish prefer to drink pickle juice. Burnt toast, vitamins, ginger, prickly pear cactus and a slew of weird-sounding homeopathic supplements are recommended as cures by many sources, but the real question is: What really works?
Advice from the American Indians and Africans could give clues about more natural options. The American Indians recommend eating almonds before drinking. And an African prevention technique is to eat a spoonful of peanut butter. Peanuts and almonds have different ratios of unsaturated to saturated fat, so in order to see if either of them work, it is probably best to try both remedies at the same time.
Eating peanut butter and almonds before a night of drinking didn’t prove to be successful. The hangover still showed up. Sticking to the natural remedies, eating an apple and a banana, seemed to be the next best step to take. The banana didn’t do much at all. The apple was refreshing, but didn’t exactly cure the hangover. Juice and coffee were needed to bring the body back up to a comfortable, functioning level.
Read the full report at the CU Independent.
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