Top Hangover Cures

Editorial

We've all done it (get a hangover, we mean) … and regretted it. A hangover is a nasty little payback from your body for your complete disregard for how much alcohol you tipped into it while having a good time with friends. Dehydrated and depleted, it knocks on the back of your eyeballs until you get it something, anything, to make the pain go away. For all the party people out there, the top hangover cures below are for you … though they're pretty tame compared to history's hangover busters. And you know they're really remedies rather than cures, don't you?

Berocca and H2O
Treat this remedy as a survival kit and lay it out on your bedside table to be consumed at the end of a big night, just before falling into bed. (This trick only works if you end up back at your own bed, of course).

Banana Smoothie
If you can handle the sound of a blender - are you sure you have a hangover? For those truly suffering, downgrade the smoothie to a banana sanga and enjoy its hit of vitamin B and potassium with a drizzle of honey for a natural sugar boost.

Sports Drink
A good guzzle on one of these electrolyte- sugar- and nutrient-laced potions (Gatorade etc) puts a bit of a zing back into your step thanks to the phenomenon of re-hydration. It won't, however, make you an athlete.

Grease Hit
The 3am kebab, burger or pizza is a remedy that many hangover pros employ. At this magical hour, greasy food seems to calm a seedy belly despite the fact it should do the opposite.

Prairie Oyster
Whisk up a natty little potion of egg yolk, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, Tabasco, and salt and pepper. Get this down your gullet and you'll be so distracted by the awful taste you'll forget about the throbbing behind your eyeballs.

Hair of the Dog
This conscious downing of more alcohol is a 'postponement of the inevitable' rather than a 'cure'. You'll still feel like a mongrel, though probably in a fitter state to make a banana sandwich, buy a kebab or get the lid off a Berocca bottle.

Kelly Ford, Citysearch 2009

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