Nobody likes the hangovers. They are combinations of nausea, headache and pain in the gut, which is pretty unpleasant. There are ways in which you can prevent or reduce hangovers, like pills for headache, a lot of water before bed, food etc, it may take a while. These 11 cures are excellent for easing the pain and reducing the hangover symptoms.
1). Ginger
Ginger is a multi-purpose digestive help. You can make yourself a tea, mix it with water, eat it with sushi, and it will balance your gastric fluids and calm the body. It is an antioxidant and anticoagulant, but do not consume it on an empty stomach, but instead, mix it with something else.
2). Honey
Honey is a popular antioxidant and it is abundant in glucose and fructose. People in Poland mix it with some pickle juice for treating hangovers. If this combination sounds strange to you, take only a few tablespoons of honey and enjoy the magic of this bee sauce.
3). Prickly Pear
the prickly pear is an excellent morning option for drunks. The extract from this prickly pear cactus efficiently reduces nausea, hydrates the mouth and improves the appetite. The extract of this plant can be found in various dietary supplements.
4). Eggs
eggs are rich in cysteine, a great amino acid that breaks down acetaldehyde, a poison which is a byproduct of ethanol oxidation. The acetaldehyde is responsible for the hangovers, and eggs for its breaking down. This is great especially if you love eggs, scrambled, boiled, etc
5). Coca Cola
this is one of the cases when Coca Cola is very useful for the messed up stomach. Many people claim that Coca Cola’s original aim was for curing hangovers. Whatever the truth, Coca Cola is good if you have eaten a big meal or if you need to turn down the volume down in your stomach.
6). Greasy Diner Breakfast
pancakes, French toast or greasy-ass diner food is good when it comes to correcting the booze-coated belly. Greasy food has the ability to stick to the walls of the stomach and thus it slows down the absorption of alcohol. It also causes discomfort, but much more bearable form of it than the hangover. You can prevent a hangover by having a greasy food for dinner, but if you have missed that train, you can reach for some bacon in the morning.
7). Gatorade + Banana
Everyone needs electrolytes. Especially if you recover from a drunken night, since this is the time when you have to end up dehydrated. Even though drinking great amounts of water helps, you would still need a steady stream of electrolytes if you want the process to be quickly ended. The hungover body also needs potassium and vitamin B, because alcohol drains vitamins B6 and B12 from your body. This is where bananas kick in, to calm the gut-hurt and to expedite the metabolism of alcohol.
8). Bloody Mary
If the drinks you consumed last night have caused head-pounding and stomach-sloshing, the last thing you would think of the next morning would be drinking more. However, that can help you in the process of righting the ship. You can have a nice cocktail of Bloody Mary, and thus cure the hangover and replace the breakfast, especially if eating breakfast is completely out of the question, because the tomato juice is excellent for metabolizing the alcohol quickly.
9). Pho
You can nurture your body nicely and hydrate it, exfoliate and reduce the toxins from it by having Vietnamese rice noodles with beef and broth, chicken or tripe. Just do not exaggerate with the hot sauce. Also, avoid much Sriracha. You can add basil, lime, cilantro, onions, bean sprout and sweet Hoison, and then go to town with the chopsticks and the spoon from the soup in your hands.
10). Pad Thai
Pad Thai is excellent for filling the void in the stomach. The rice, the eggs, the noodles, tamarind juice and the proteins including chicken, tofu or shrimp will do their job. Whatever the science behind it, it functions very well.
11). Matzo Ball Soup
The matzo ball has numerous healing powers. It is also known as the Jewish penicillin, and it is great for eliminating the hangover, the pink eye, and it is also said it can cure even cancer. Utilize its properties, which are highly comfortable.
We should also mention here:
- Tom Yum soup
- Borscht
- Haejangguk
- Menudo
