Multi-Vitamins
★★★★★
(Phoenix, Arizona)
08/21/2008
★★★★★
You wont believe this. I thought I discovered a cure for hangovers A FEW YEARS AGO.and I don't know of many people who have used this recipe and didn't swear by its benefits.
Liquid Chlorophyll, water- soluable vitamins, potassium, calcium carbonate.
Activated charcoal.
These, taken with 1,000 militers of H20 will prevent 90% of hangovers.
MORE SPECIFIC:
Water Soluable Vitamins: Small dose b complex.(large doses make you puke.)
Vitamin C- Detoxifies the aldahyde biproducts. Used buffered form or use regular VIT. c with extra tums.
Calcium carbonate
Tums- take three or four.
Protects stomach. Adds calcium ions to blood stream. Protects kidneys from phosphates.
Potassium- Depleated by diuretics.
black strap molasses, potassium supplements, three bananas, gatorade/powerade.
Chlorophyll:
Detoxifies
by binding to and/or absorbtion.
Well documented properties!
Activated charcoal.
Absorbs alcohol that's remaining in your stomach.Blocks it from your blood stream and liver. Excreted through feces.
Water:
Very important. Alcohol is diuretic. You become dehydrated and your electrolytes are off. So, replenish water and lytes is good strategy.
Nobody, goes out and buys all this different stuff just to treat hangovers. But when they do they are glad they did. If after all this, you wake up to urinate in the middle of the morning, if you still have a headach,...take benadryl 25 mg.
WARNING:
Do not take aspirin, tylenol for hangovers. Tylenol can cause liver damage. Aspirin can cause G.I. bleeding.
Multiple Remedies
The morning after, if you wake up and you're still a little drunk, or the nausea hasn't set in yet, this is your golden opportunity to take action before things start to get REALLY bad. I think you know what I'm talking about. Get something in your stomach as soon as you can to help your body absorb the alcohol and toxins in your system. I hate to say it, but grease and carbs are the best things you can put in your body at the first stage of a hangover, for whatever reason, it really helps! (This is the only time I'd ever advocate eating fast food! ). If your stomach churns at the thought of eating McDonalds, make yourself something with lots of grease and carbs - maybe a pizza, some spaghetti with butter or something similar. After you've eaten the greasy food, take an ibuprofen if you think your stomach can handle it (don't take more than you need, and never take Tylenol, it's very hard on your liver and can be potentially deadly mixed with alcohol.)
After you got some food in your stomach, spend the next 24 hours on a detox diet. Fruit juices, tomato juice (like V8), milkshakes with banana and honey, or a vegetable soup like gazpacho are all very helpful to replenish all the vitamins and potassium your body lost and to help gently detox the alcohol out of your system. Keep drinking water or a sports drink throughout the day to rehydrate your body.
Your body will also recover more quickly if you take a nap than if you try to tough it out all day. If you were intoxicated when you went to sleep the night before, then you probably didn't get enough restful sleep - even if you went to sleep for 8 hours. When you feel good enough, go for a run, go in a sauna or steam room or take a hot shower to help your body sweat out the toxins (just follow up with lots of water afterwards, because whether you realize it or not, you are really dehydrated! )
If you woke up and there's no chance you're going to be able to keep some food down, make some ginger or peppermint tea and sip it SLOWLY. The ginger tea is a powerful nausea reliever and you will rehydrate your body in the process. If you're really nauseous you can double up the tea bags. Once the nausea has been relieved and you think you can keep some food down, follow the steps above.
Here's a few helpful things you can do for next time to prevent a hangover:
- There are 'hangover prevention' type pills you can find over-the-counter at the drugstore that contain B vitamins and vegetable carbon. They really work if you take them as directed. If you're going somewhere where you feel like you might really be tying one on, pick these up first!
- Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Aim to drink at least one glass of water between every drink you have.
- Never drink on an empty stomach.
- Don't drink too much too quickly, 1 drink per hour is enough for most people. You need to give your body time to process the alcohol.
- Sometimes eating before you sleep is helpful.
- Don't mix alcohols. Also, stick with the top-shelf liquors over the rail liqours.
- With wines and champagnes, beware sulfates and carbonation - they both cause headaches in sensitive people.
- Always drink in moderation. We all make mistakes, but remember that everytime you binge on alcohol, you are doing damage to your brain, your heart, your liver and your kidneys. And most importantly, please get help if you think you're having trouble controlling your drinking.
Oil Pulling
★★★★★
(Baltimore, Maryland)
09/28/2010
(Dallas, Texas)
12/22/2010
It really does work. Sometimes you forget the difference between hangovers in your twenties and hangovers in your thirties. I will be 33 next month. Last night I forgot and, though my husband and I had a great time, this morning was a painful reminder that we are not in our twenties. I don't drink often, but when I do, my hangovers are miserable. Pounding head, dry heaving all day long, etc. This morning was no exception. I got on earth clinic hoping to find a cure. I stumbled upon the oil pulling, which I've done only once before and not for a hangover. I had nothing to lose, so I swished while I was in the (cool) shower with Sesame Oil. By the time my 15 minute shower was complete, I felt just fine. No headache, no nausea. Just tired. I'm amazed. I followed up my OP with tons of water, an asprin and a swig of aloe vera juice.
Raw Green Mangoes
★★★★★
Sauna
★★★★★
Vegetable Juice and Sports Drink
★★★★★
(Crawfordville, FL.)
04/16/2009
First of all I would like to say that I am glad I "literally" stumbled upon this site much to my amazement and delight. I look forward to trying this particular potion this very evening. I will post at a later date if it relieved ANY of my self indulged ministrations. One thing which I would like to add is this remedy for bleeding which worked on me. It is a simple bible verse: Ezekiel 16:6. A woman must read it if a man is bleeding and a man must read it for a woman; and for burns read Song of Soloman 8:6 Gotta go, Vodka's working!!! Oh yes, why are all the other submissions like, "OLD"???
EC: Not many readers on Earth Clinic are interested in hangover remedies, that's why!
(Mission, B.c, Canada)
09/23/2011
In my experience, I think on a night (or day)where you have polished off a few too many its hard to think about anything but sleep. So my hangover cure is Coconut Water in the morning. Not Coconut juice filled with sugar and junk, my personal favorite is Blue Mokey Coconut Water. But I am still trying others. It replaces electrolytes like the sport drink, but with out the other stuff that comes with sport drinks. A nice chilled one, shake it and enjoy. It hydrates and gives you a good amount of energy to have a productive day.
Water and Aspirin
★★★★★
(Opole, Poland)
05/01/2011
It is very dangerous to take asprin (or any pharmaceuticals) when drinking. The combination of medicine and alcohol can cause liver damage.
Also, a hangover is not simply dehydration, but a lack of nutrients that have been used up while breaking down the alcohol.
I would therefore recommend, for dehydration, a banana, because the potassium in the banana replaces the salts lost to dehydration.
Eggs and fruit juice will help replenish lost nutrients.
Wood Chip Alcohol Fumes
Up until this incident, I would have said that pine chip fumes were more dangerous than hardwood chip fumes. Not so, and here is a story that I experienced in the 70's as superintendent of a pulp mill.
We always built extremely large chip storage piles to prepare for the wet winters. That year it was too large and covered all the chip tunnel ventilation. A utility man's job was to clean under the chip conveyors in the tunnel.
I got a call from the digester operator saying that he got a weird call and then silence. He thought it was the utility man cleaning the chip tunnel. We rushed out there and he was out cold in the tunnel. We got him to the hospital and the doctor concluded that he passed out drunk on hardwood chip fumes. This is wood alcohol or methanol and can cause you to go blind or permanently affect your brain.
Luckily , the doctor was a country boy and had some common sense. He brought him down slowly using vodka for three days. He had one heck of a hang-over. The kid's eye sight was not affected, but his personality was to an extent.
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