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  • A Van Diemen. Combine two cups Ovaltine, some sugar, chocolate topping, a half cup of milk, two cups hot water and three tablespoons golden syrup. Microwave on high for two minutes, adding another quarter cup of milk and stirring after one minute. Add half a packet of pinapple jelly crystals and microwave on high for another thirty seconds. Add the other half packet of pineapple jelly crystals and a bit more hot water. Microwave for another minute. Pour into cups. Refigerate. Serve with custard.
  • Engov is an over-the-counter tablet in Brazil, but not sold in the United States. It's got stuff like aluminum hydroxide, caffeine, acetylsalicylic acid and pyrilamine maleate which are individually in American products like antacids, coffee, aspirin and antihistamines.
  • Vietnamese beef noodle soup known as Pho. Pho is made with rice noodles, and served with basil, lime, bean sprouts and peppers.
  • Ramen noodles, a cure we suggested just a few months ago. But this time, wash it down with orange juice.
  • Slap some bacon between a couple of pieces of bread and eat. While the bacon gives you the amino acids necessary to repair the neurotransmitters in your brain that have been damaged by alcohol, the bread gives your body the carbohydrates you need to get your lazy ass out of bed.
  • Tsar Nicholas II's favorite, eat a lemon wedge, coated with sugar and ground coffee.
  • Drink a 12 ounce glass of milk immediately before going out drinking.
  • The traditional Russian cure of having a sauna followed by whipping yourself with birch branches.
  • A sausage roll and a strawberry milkshake. According to Wikipedia, the British delicacy known as a sausage roll is "a sheet of puff pastry sliced into two and wrapped into tubes around a filling based on sausage meat, blended with softer ingredients such as soaked bread, onion and egg, before being cooked. They can be served either hot or cold."
  • Mix a half a pint of cola with half a pint of orange juice.
  • Before you go out drinking, down about four ounces of vegetable oil.
  • Drink the peach syrup from a can of peaches. Supposedly, peach syrup eliminates the nausea and raises your blood sugar which can help in getting over your hangover.
  • Dimenhydrinate. That’s the generic term for sea, air or any kind of motion sickness pills. Examples include trademarks like Dramamine, Gravol, Gravamine and Vertirosan.
  • A glass of milk, followed by a glass of tomato juice, a mulitvitamin and a lot of sports drink like Powerade or Gatorade.
  • Eat, in order, a banana, a carrot, and a tomato. Follow with a shot of vodka, a bit of tobasco, and some milk. If necessary, mouthwash to remove taste.
  • Mix four ounces of olive oil and a raw egg in a 16-ounce glass. Fill the rest of the glass with milk and drink.
  • From Germany, a breakfast of bananas, red meat and whole milk.
  • Drink half a pint of milk. Wash that down with some fizzy vitamin C tablet then drink some more water.
  • The Korean beef broth Haejungguk. It’s made with pork spine, dried cabbage, coagulated ox blood and vegetables.
  • The old Russian cure, fresh squeezed cucumber juice.
  • The Japanese favorite, eat Ramen Noodles after drinking and before going to bed.
  • The old Turkish remedy, yogurt and garlic. The problem is, we have no idea exactly how the Turks use yogurt and garlic as a hangover cure. Do Turks slice the garlic up and then blend it with yogurt? Who knows?!
  • The ancient Roman breakfast of sheep’s lungs and two owl eggs.
  • Pedialyte or any pediatric electrolyte replacement. Pedialyte is generally used for rehydrating a child who is suffering from diarrhea and/or vomiting.
  • Doc Brown’s wake up juice as featured in the movie, "Back to the Future 3." It’s a blend of tobasco, cayenne, chili peppers, onion and mustard seed.
  • The favorite of sailors everywhere ... saltwater.
  • Take 50 milligrams B6 before going drinking. Then, take 50 milligrams B6 halfway through your evening. Finally, take another with a glass of water right before going to bed.
  • From our man in Budpaest, Todd Williams, citing the Ananova.com article headlined, "Proof that bacon butties cure hangovers," is a bacon sandwich.
    The article quotes a science development manager at the Centre for Life in Newcastle, UK, saying, "Food doesn't soak up the alcohol, but it does increase your metabolism - helping you to deal with the after-effects of over-indulgence. So food will often help you feel better. Bread is high in carbohydrates and bacon is full of protein, which breaks down into amino acids.
    Your body needs these amino acids, so eating them will make you feel good. Bingeing on alcohol depletes neurotransmitters too, but bacon contains a high level of amines which tops these up, giving you a clearer head.
    If you've got amino acids and reducing sugars at a heat above 150 degrees centigrade, it kickstarts the Maillard Reaction in the pan. That means lots of lovely smells are released and it's this which draws us in. I know of three vegetarians who have been broken by the smell of bacon."
  • In celebration of Passover, is a can of gifelte fish. For you goyem, that’s ground pike or carp rolled into balls then canned. Really, any canned fish will do. But because it’s Passover, this morning’s hangover cure was gifelte fish.
  • DON’T SMOKE! Cigarette smoking makes the drinker thirsty and leads to overdrinking. So this morning’s hangover cure is a pre-emptive one: DON’T SMOKE WHILE DRINKING!
  • The ancient ayurvedic practice known as Pancha Karma Cleansing Therapy. The therapy is supposed to thoroughly purify and heal the body and mind. The treatment involves a days-long series of cleanses including a special vegetarian diet, massage, sweat therapy, and purges. After days of expelling toxins from what feels like every cell in your body, you’ll emerge from pancha karma with an allegedly stronger immune system. While the programs in India can be hard-core, lasting more than a week and sometimes including bloodletting, many ayurvedic centers in the U.S. offer easier, less torturous-sounding versions.
  • Another Chinese hangover cure: drink tangerine juice while eating strawberries.
  • The ancient Chinese remedy of eating horse brains the morning after drinking too much.
  • Many Puerto Ricans insist you should apply lemon juice to your armpits before going out drinking.
  • The Hangover Burger. It’s an egg fried in duck fat, two kinds of cheese, three kinds of pickles including Korean kimchi, mustard, garlic mayo, sambal oelek, lettuce and, of course, bun and hamburger.
  • Have some scrambled eggs and wash them down with an ice-cold beer. The beer has to be as close to becoming a slushie as possible.
  • Boil an egg before going out drinking. Then, when you get home, if you remember, take the boiled egg out of the fridge and eat it.
  • Champagne cocktail. Put a cube of sugar in a 12 ounce glass, Pour one ounce of bitters over it. Then, fill with champagne and drink.
  • Scalp stimulation; Stimulating the blood vessels in your scalp by pulling your hair or simply massaging.
  • 60 mililiters of Pepto-Bismol washed down with Red Bull
  • Egg Paratha. In particular, from Ghareeb Nawaz at the northwest corner of Seeley and Devon.
  • Canned tomatoes spread on toast, topped off liberally with Worcestshire sauce, washed down with orange juice and a Zantac.
  • The old Roman favorite, eat cabbage leaves, the part you regularly discard when preparing cabbage for salad.
  • Chai Tea.
    In case you don’t know, Chai is actually the word for tea in many languages including Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Russian, Urdu, Turkish, Romanian and Nepalese. When English speakers say Chai tea, they're referring to the Indian tea, Masala Chai.
    Masala Chai is from the Indian subcontinet and is a tea made from a mixture of spices and herbs.
    So, more accurately, today’s hangover cure is Masala Chai.
  • From listener Brian G ...
    Whisky in coffee.
    In case you’re already saying, "you mean Irish coffee," this is NOT Irish coffee. Irish coffee, or Café Gaelic, is coffee and whisky plus stirred-in sugar and topped with thick heavy cream.
  • Take a shower alternating between hot and cold water.
  • From a fast food joint called the Fat Sandwich Company at the University of Oklahoma campus, which is about to open a new location and the University of Illinois …
    "The Big Fat Ugly"
    "It consists of two rolls, four cheeseburgers, a double cheesesteak, a chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat,
    grilled chicken, bacon, sausage, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets, mac n cheese bites,
    fried mushrooms, jalapeño poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, American cheese, mayo, and
    ketchup."
  • Red Bull and M&Ms.
  • Kazu Tateishi’s canned vegetable soup made with the fibrous root burdock.
    However, the AP reports "Tateishi claimed that eating it could cure cancer and diabetes, lower blood pressure, and fix up a hangover. He says the soup made his bones so strong, he once let someone run him over with a four-ton truck and came away with nothing but a few tire marks. He made a fortune selling the soup and even got an endorsement from Japan’s Prime Minister.
    Problem is, doctors at Kumamoto University's School of Medicine declared Tateishi's claims for his soup to be 'insane' and Asahi magazine discovered that Tateishi is not a doctor, as he claimed, but a cab driver.
    Tateishi is currently in jail, charged with illegally practicing medicine."
    However, people still love the soup and claim it cures all their ills, including hangovers.
  • From long-time listener Adam ... "This is unbelievable! I had a birthday party last night -- understand? So I get up this morning feeling like ... the day after your birthday, and FLAMING HOT CHEETOS!
    Helps explain why they're so popular with the kids!"
  • Bovril mixed with vodka. Bovril is a thick, salty beef extract that is made in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, and distributed throughout the UK.
  • The Hungarian 'Night Owl' soup known as Korhelyleves. Many versions of this soup can be found on the web; some with cabbage, some with potatoes, some with sauerkraut juice, but they all have smoked meat.
  • Sopa de Mondongo, the Puerto Rican version of the Mexican soup Menudo – which was a hangover cure on This is Hell! in the past. Both have tripe, that’s the slow-cooked, diced and cleaned stomach of a cow. But mondongo also includes bell peppers, onions, carrots, celery, cabbage, and some other root vegetables.
  • Pray to Saint Vivian, patron saint of hangovers and torture victims.
    The prayer to Saint Vivian to cure your hangover goes like this:
    O merciful Saint Vivian, I ask you that you relieve my nausea, sooth my aching head and calm my upset stomach. I also ask that you protect me from any loud noises or bright lights and provide me with the sense to avoid further episodes of excessive imbibing. Amen.
  • Dialysis, the artificial replacement of the kidneys functions via a dialysis machine. If you’ve ever had renal failure, you know just how effective dialysis can be in curing your hangover.
  • The Russian and Ukrainian thick, spicy, sour soup, Solyanka. Solyanka can be made with meat, fish or Mushrooms, but all of them have pickled cucumbers with the pickle brine, plus cabbage, salty mushrooms, sour cream and dill.
  • That Japanese favorite, miso soup. Miso is mixed softened soy bean paste made by fermenting soy beans with salt and fermented grains such as rice, barley and soy beans.
  • The Moroccan favorite, chew cumin seeds.
  • Pour buttermilk over your head. That’s right. Don’t drink it. Just pour buttermilk over your head.
  • Chew coca leaves.
  • Mustard powder mixed in water.
  • The old Ukrainian favorite, two shots of vodka, a cigarette, then another shot of vodka.
  • Pickled plums.
  • Koreans drink a bowl of water with honey.
  • A Sake soaked surgical mask.
  • "The Thomas Abercrombie." It’s two Alka-Seltzers dropped into a double shot of tequila.
  • Tatties and Neeps.
    That’s mashed potatoes with a little nutmeg and mashed 'swede' with ginger.
    Swede is another word for turnips.
    Tatties and Neeps is also the traditional side dish for last week’s hangover cure, haggis.
  • Haggis. For those of you who don’t know, it’s sheep’s pluck - that’s it’s heart - liver and lungs mixed with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the sheep’s stomach for about three hours.
  • This is, again, from a New Year’s Day online discussion at the Guardian that was discovered recently by Kevan Harris, ‘The Radical Pessimist’: "A raw egg; six shakes of Worcester Sauce; six drops of tabasco; two tablespoons of tomato juice; one of very dry sherry; a dash of celery salt and smear of paprika; two ice cubes all stirred with loving gentleness. Down in one, plunge through an ice hole into a river (a cold shower will do, just) and then eggs, bacon, fried bread and tea (not coffee) and you are ready for anything."
  • several liters of diet cola while consuming jalapeno homous.
  • two cups mint tea followed by a bowl of oatmeal.
  • this was posted as a comment to a story on hangovers in the British newspaper The Guardian. So please excuse the British slang:
    Coffee; fag; water; huevos rancheros; coffee; fag; gym; lunch; siesta.
  • a roast beef sandwich.
  • hang gliding.
  • from Trevor in Long Island City: drink some apple juice and eat a big ol' greasy cheeseburger. Trevor adds, "If you are vegetarian, like me, you are screwed. If you are a librarian, like me, read a book with a headache until it is past noon, and then begin drinking again, as grumpily as possible. Emulate drunken literary dandies like Christopher "Hitch" Hitchens (version 1.O) or manic, Slovenian Lacanian Marxists and wow friends and relishes with your learned opinions of counterculture, dissent, international relations, and Shakira. Then have a nap."
  • the following two are from listener Wally and 'Sanford & Son.' In episode #121: "Fred's hangover remedy part 2: Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, prune juice, tomato juice, salt, cream, tobasco sauce and eggs" ...
  • ... also from "Sanford & Son" episode #63, season 4: 'Fred's patented hangover remedy makes its first appearance. It consists of raw eggs, tomato juice, salt and pepper, prune juice, worcestershire sauce and a "smidgen" of vodka.
  • again, Wally comes through with a hangover cure. He suggests, "The infamous 'Slinger' us served at the Diner Grill (or 'Be A Millionaire') -- an (in)famous train car diner on Irving Park a block west of Ashland. Take my word for it.
  • we hate to use this as a cure, but we have had so many listeners over the years that have suggested this cure and we’ve put it off for far too long. Yes, apparently many of our listeners believe that antihangover stuff Chaser actually works.
    The active ingredient is activated charcoal which we have used as a cure in the past. So, instead of using Chaser, just look for some cure that has activated charcoal as an ingredient.
  • drink a flat ginger ale while exercising. It doesn’t matter what the exercise is, just one that you’re comfortable doing.
  • eat a pad or two of butter.
  • a whole lemon squeezed into black coffee. No sugar, no cream, just lemon and black coffee.
  • a glass of orange juice, mixed with a teaspoon of black pepper, then poured over ice.
  • drink a large glass of warm water. Masturbate vigorously for five minutes. Drink another large glass of warm water. Masturbate again for five minutes, but this time, not so vigorously. Then have one last large glass of warm water.
  • the Alaskan hangover cure: a margarita with a raw oyster at the bottom.
  • Doner Kebab which is any turning meat dish. Here in Chicago, you may know this as a Gyro. But, a doner kebab can be any meat including lamb, mutton, beef or chicken. Here, it’s usually lamb, but some gyro stands have chicken, too.
  • mix one and a half cups V8 with a half cup of soda water, a teaspoon of sugar, a dash of salt and a dash of bitters. Pour over crushed ice. Then put two croutons on top. Drink down the whole thing, including the crushed ice and croutons. Remember to chew the croutons as you will probably choke on them if you don’t.
  • "Bloody Beer" but folks in Nebraska like to call it, "Red Beer." Take a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, mix in a shot of Bloody Mary mix, spice with salt and pepper to taste and drink up.
  • cook a cup of rice in two cups skim milk. Then add sugar and cinnamon to taste
  • honey, or in Britain 'golden syrup,' on toast. It's the cure that is suggested by .the one suggested by the British Royal Aacademy of Chemistry.
  • first, take three ibuprofen followed by an Alka Seltzer. Then, a vitamin C tablet followed by a can of cold cola. Not diet cola, the regular kind. And then a greasy breakfast.
  • the unfortunately named 'Ghetto Fries.' French fries covered in cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, giardiniera, gravy and raw onions.
  • "the Aussie Hangover Cure." It’s a pizza with four McDonalds cheeseburgers on top, buns and all, an entire large order of french fries, both under and on top of the burgers, all covered with bacon and cheese.
  • from listeners Wally and Elizabeth, "Cornetto"
    "Cornetto" is a frozen prepackaged ice cream cone brought to you by that fine multinational company Unilever. Apparently, it was very difficult to make a prepackaged frozen ice cream cone till Cornetto was developed.
    Wally points out that Cornetto is referenced in both the movies "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" by acor Simon Pegg as a hangover cure.
    By the way, Pegg will be starring in the new Star Trek prequel movie as a young Scotty.
  • the century old fizzy orange gold Scottish drink IRN-BRU
  • a Bloody Maria. It’s the same as a Bloody Mary, with tomato juice, worcestershire, tobasco, celery salt, maybe a little Guiness, some liquid smoke, whatever you do for your favorite Bloody Mary recipe, except you replace the vodka with tequila.
  • the Redneck Hangover Cure. Take a hot chicken wing (as hot as you can find), an ounce of vodka, two dashes of vinegar, a teaspoon of worcestershire, a teaspoon of ketchup, two dashes of tobasco and mix it all together. Then crack an egg over the top and add a pinch of salt and pepper.
  • a cheese and onion sandwich.
  • stay awake! That way your liver is functioning at its very best and it allows you to process alcohol better.
  • a frozen cola, you know, a Squishee.
  • a glass of tomato juice washed down with a beer.
  • two incredibly spicy tacos and a beer.
  • the Ultimate Egg Nog:
    In a large bowl, beat six eggs until pale yellow and slightly frothy. Add three-quarters cup of sugar and a quart of half and half, and stir until well blended. Add a cup of brandy and two cups of bourbon and stir. Transfer to large pitcher and chill until cold, at least three hours. Divide between six punch cups, garnish each with sprinkle of nutmeg, and serve.
  • the Moulin Rouge: Combine one and a half ounces of sloe gin, a half ounce of sweet vermouth, two dashes of angostura bitters and three or four ice cubes. Stir well and strain into a cocktail glass.
  • Harry’s Pick Me Up: Combine three ounces brandy, a teaspoon of grenadine, two tablespoons of lemon juice, and three or four ice cubes. Shake, then add six ounces of champagne
  • the Cecil Pick Me Up: Combine two to three ounces of brandy, a teaspoon of superfine sugar, an egg yolk, and three or four ice cubes. Shake vigorously then add about four ounces of champagne.
  • the Pussycat Cocktail: an ounce of lime juice, lemon juice and orange juice, added to a little grenadine to taste. Mixed well with ice and strained into a cocktail glass.
  • add three teaspoons of grated or crushed yellow dock root to three cups of boiling water. Let it sit for 30 minutes and drink it over the course of the day.
  • simmer one tablespoon each of dandelion root, dandelion leaf, and one teaspoon of ginger in three cups of water for 20 minutes.
  • the Fallen Angel: Combine three ounces gin, four tablespoons lemon or lime juice, two dashes of green crème de menthe and a dash of Angostura bitters. Stir well. Strain into cocktail glass and add a cherry.
  • the Corpse Reviver: Pour an ounce of gin, a half ounce of cointreau, a half ounce of lillet blonde, three quarters of an ounce of fresh lemon juice, and a dash of absente. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
  • something called a sazerac cocktail. Keep in mind, the recipe we found is for four cocktails:
    Swirl a half teaspoon of pernod in four martini glasses. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add a cup of bourbon, a half teaspoon of bitters, four teaspoons of simple syrup, and a lemon twist Shake well and strain into glasses
  • activated calcium carbonate and activated charcoal. These are two of the ingredients found in one of the most popular over the counter hangover cures. We’re not telling you which one because we aren’t gonna do a commercial for them. But let it be known, activated calcium carbonate and activated charcoal can combine into a successful hangover cure.
  • from The Independent ... "Taurine is a key ingredient in the controversial energy drink Red Bull, which has long been maligned by health experts. The Swedish National Food Administration warned people to avoid drinking it with alcohol or after heavy exercise, France banned it, Norway classified it as a medicine and for a long time, only pharmacies in Japan would sell it. But some scientists now believe taurine can help reverse liver damage, by counteracting the build-up of fat in the liver caused by heavy drinking. So, although research is still at an early stage, it may turn out that opting for a Red Bull and vodka as the night wears on may not be such a bad idea."
  • add no more than half a teaspoon of salt to two litres of water, and mix in a couple of spoonfuls of sugar, if you like, to offset the bitter taste.
  • fruit juice and cottage cheese.
  • buttered toast with honey and, the key ingredient, cinnamon, known as a headache remedy.
  • upon awaking, immediately take any kind of anti-PMS medicine.
  • a twelve ounce can of Vernors Ginger Soda, mixed with four ounces 100 percent pure cranberry juice and four ounces pure not from concentrate 100 percent grapefruit juice, with one 1000 milligram packet of powdered vitamin C stirred in.
  • warm cola syrup.
  • an apple, some strawberries and a dose of Vitamin B.
  • horchata.
  • a tea made from the herb vervain.
  • two paracetemol and a banana.
  • combine grated cheese of any sort with onion gravy, two pints of water, some diced sausages and two aspirin. Smash it all together and eat
  • the British favorite, chips and cream cakes.
  • mix a shot of vodka, a beef bouillon cube, a teaspoon each of worcestershire sauce and ketchup and a raw egg
    Then drink that down in one gulp.
  • Der kater laut ertahrung stirbt am sauren haurung. The tomcat, or hangover, according to experience disappears with a sour herring.
  • As it was New Year's - and these cures are a bit lame - we offered two cures.
    The first is, drink light beer first thing in the morning.
    See? Not so good.
    So how about water before passing out, fresh juice or sweet tea the next morning, followed by a hearty breakfast? Producer Drew Colglazier actually suggested combining the cures.
    Drink water before blacking out, a can of light beer first thing in the morning, fresh juice, sweet tea and a hearty breakfast.
    That might actually work.
  • dal, washed down with beer and riotous conversation at your favorite watering hole.
  • in Ireland, a traditional cure is to be buried up to your neck in river bank sand.
  • pineapple.
  • hypnosis.
  • a simple banana orange smoothie.
  • just another chowder. This time, it's oyster chowder.
  • heat a pint of buttermilk, stir in a tablespoon of cornflower, and add a pinch of salt, pepper or seasoning.
  • yet another version of hair of the dog, but this one is entirely unique from past hairs of the dog. Or is it hair of the dogs? Starting jsut between the time your buzz has wore off a bit and your hangover has yet to kick into full gear, drink a half pint of beer. Wait until you are just about to get a hangover and then drink a quarter pint. Wait until you are just about to get a hangover again, and then drink an eighth of a pint and so on. After an hour and a pint, you're cured.
  • if you wake up feeling like a "sheep's scabby udder," drink sixteen ounces of grapefruit juice and half a ginger beer.
  • an UnCola of any sort.
  • a drink of two ounces port and two ounces cognac
  • not the "Hair of the Dog," but a drink called "Hair of the Dog." It's a mixture of a single whiskey with double cream and a teaspoon of honey.
  • a "Morning Glory." That's a double whisky, a small absinthe, an egg, two teaspoons of sugar syrup, a lime and a lemon - in that order, not mixed up!
  • heavily sugared Kool aid, followed by a multivitamin and a tylenol, and then sleep
  • artichoke juice. the French government has banned an artichoke juice drink on the basis that it could encourage drunk driving.
  • a drink called a blood transfusion which is a mix of vodka, sherry, the Italian bitters drink Fernet-Branca, tomato juice, lime and Worcestershire sauce.
  • a blood transfusion.
  • sliced tomato with mustard.
  • the favorite of 19th century chimeny sweeps every where - a soot milkshake.
  • while still drunk, take several multivitamins before going to sleep.
  • thiamin, also known as the vitamin B1.
  • Assyrian crushed swallows' beaks. By the way, if you dig around in our archive of cures enough, you will find another involving said beaks.
  • you’re not going to believe this but this never made our list: a bag of ice, a cold pack, a frozen steak or pork chop ... just put something cold on yor head and fall back asleep
  • take an ounce and-a-half of sherry and two ounces of bouillon. Heat the bouillon. Add the sherry and serve warm.
  • The Suffering Bastard! It’s a half jigger of brandy, a half jigger of gin, a half jigger of lime juice and two dashes of bitters. Pour into a tall glass with ice and add ginger ale and fresh mint. Just mix it up and throw it back
  • that old cold beet favorite ­ Borscht! ­ and is there anything quite as good as cold beet soup with beef and marrow, topped with sour cream?
  • a Black Velvet: A tall glass of cold champagne mixed evenly in a cold Guinness.
  • from the writing of Kingsley Amos ... Upon awaking: If your wife or other partner is beside you, and (of course) is willing, perform the sexual act as vigorously as you can. The exercise will do you good, and - on the assumption that you enjoy sex - you will feel toned up emotionally. Warnings: (1) if you are in bed with somebody you should not be in bed with, and have in the least degree a bad conscience about this, abstain. Guilt and shame are prominent constituents of the Metaphysical Hangover, and will certainly be sharpened by indulgence on such an occasion. (2) For the same generic reason, do not take the matter into your own hands if you awake by yourself.
  • two owl's eggs, raw.
  • WC Fields favorite, a martini made of one part vermouth, four parts gin and an olive ... to be taken round the clock.
  • fried canary! Grab the canary and with a large pair of scissors cut off its head. Then, make a small incision in the skin near the breastbone. Now, slowly slide a finger inside, and carefully pull off the canary carcass skin with all the feathers still attached. Heat the a pint of cooking oil until almost smoking. Then, throw the bird in, undrawn, and deep fry for two minutes. Remove the fried beheaded featherless canary from the oil. Flambé the canary with cognac immediately upon removing from the pan. Finally, sprinkle salt and pepper to taste and serve.
  • black tea.
  • the homeopathic remedy Nux vomica which will help relieve gas, bloating and a sour stomach
  • make a tea by lightly crushing five fresh or dried Thyme leaves. Then, place them in a cup and fill with water cooled to just below boiling. Cover and leave to infuse for five minutes. Finally, remove leaves and drink.
  • scalp stimulation. Pull your hair so that your full scalp is stimulated. This remedy brings blood to the scalp and relieves the headache.
  • eat a raw persimmon
  • some chew it, others drink it in tea ... today's cure is the peppermint leaf in it's tea form. Make peppermint tea by pouring one cup of boiling water over one to two teaspoons of dried peppermint. Cover. Steep for fifteen minutes. Strain. Drink a couple of cups quickly but without burning yourself.
  • a speciic prescription involving honey: take between two and six teaspoonfuls of honey every twenty minutes after getting up, depending on the severity of the hangover. Continue with the honey until you start to feel better, then take four teaspoonsful with your first meal.
    Honey not only cures, but it decreases the cravings for more booze.
  • feverfew, an herb, in place of aspirin. Aspirin is very hard on the stomach, while feverfew is not.
  • banana milkshake with honey
  • apples eaten on an empty stomach the day after drinking.
  • bifidus powder. Put a teaspoon of bifidus powder in a glass of water and drink before going to bed. Bifidus is the 'friendly' bacteria that detoxifies acetaldehyde, a digestive byproduct of alcohol that is a major cause of hangovers.
  • a poor mosa. Take one pint glass and add two to three fingers of orange juice. Then, add twelve ounces of Coors Light and drink it down. Don't bother trying it with any other kind of beer. The watery tasteless nature of Coors Light just seems to work best. If you can find a more tasteless beer ... okay, that's a big 'if.'
  • tratamiento de choque from South America. Take the rawest of fish and place it in lemon juice and raw onions. Add hot sauce. The fish is then soaked for two days. No less. Usually eaten with popcorn and beer.
  • in the St James district of London, the long-established chemists, Dr. Harris and Company of St James Street, have been dispensing their hangover cure made from a secret recipe of tincture of gentian and cardamom, clove oil and a little bit of camphor, diluted and served in a special glass.
  • Taco Bell. If the Immokalee can get over their dispute with Taco Bell, so can you when you're drunk and it's the fastest food available at 3 AM.
  • prickly pear cactus
  • drink a no caffeine cola, put aspirin under your tongue and sit in a hot shower
  • activated carbon! Now, we're not suggesting you go out and eat it straight, but activated carbon is now a key ingredient in many over the counter hangover cures
  • the Ulster fry, a dish of fried food that is popular throughout the Irish province of Ulster. Some claim it as the national dish of Northern Ireland. A traditional Ulster fry consists of bacon, eggs, sausages (either pork or beef), the farl form of soda bread (the farl split in half crossways to expose the inner bread and then fried with the exposed side down), potato bread and tomato. Other ingredients include black pudding, white pudding, mushrooms, wheaten bread and pancakes. All this is fried up in lard.
  • vegetarian chili
  • a cola ­ Jolt preferred - and a big bucket of pickled pigs feet
  • homebrew. The B vitamins that are washed out during pasteurization remain in homebrew and B vitamins help to prevent hangovers. We know this is not a cure but more of a preventative, but we will do anything we can to encourage the making of homebrew.
  • Excedrin Migraine or any headache pill that is laced with caffeine
  • tobacco. Sure it might end up killing you but, in the meantime, it could cure your hangover.
  • Berrocca is a British vitamin supplement that dissolves in water and contains B vitamins plus other essential nutrients and does not have caffeine, sugar or any artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. Now, take five Berrocca, or their equivalent, and disolve them in water. Then take a watermelon, cut a hole in it, and pour the Berrocca, or their substitute, inside and keep the melon in the fridge over night. The next morning, when you come back from your drunkening, stare into space while you eat that vitamin laced watermelon.
  • defeathered, deskinned, stripped, cleaned and then fried Š canary
  • banana milk laced with two crushed up aspirin
  • heat up a can of condensed tomato based vegetable beef soup. Add three teaspoons of some kind of hot sauce (we suggest the Vietnamese Hot Chili Sauce Tuong Ot Sriracha, also commonly referred to as 'Rooster Sauce,' and half a bottle of National Beer.
  • hot sweet tea
  • the Macedonian treat 'Juva,' AKA 'Rasolnica': put a couple of cabbages in a barrel at the start of Autumn. Add some salt to the barrel of cabbages, and enough water to cover the cabbage. Then, put the barrel in a cold room, preferably between zero and ten degrees Celsius. Let stand for a month, maybe two. Then, in Winter, when you do the most drinking, you will have the perfect cure.
  • succinic acid, the world's most effective means of aiding your body in the metabolism of acetaldehyde, Acetaldehyde is a highly toxic compound which builds up within your body when you consume alcohol. KGB agents used it as a cure - and now they're marketing it
  • artichoke purée ... Cook artichoke hearts in a quart of bordeaux. Drain off the wine, and then puree your artichokes. Add a teaspoon of olive oil, a clove of garlic, some lemon juice and a lot of pepper. Serve the mash in a bowl and wash it down with the drained off wine
  • boil a 32 ounce can of tomato juice, and a can beer, with a half dozen whole jalepenos, a large onion chopped, two cloves of chopped garlic, and a teaspoon of salt. Once boiled, turn off heat and throw in three pounds of peeled de-veined shrimps. Let the shrimp linger in the pot for twenty minutes, then take them out, chill them and eat. Apparently it's called either 'American' or 'Empire' shrimp, but really, what's the difference?
  • we've used Rollmops before, that¹s a herring wrapped around a pickle. We suggested Matjes, which are raw salted baby herring. There's also marinated Bismarkhering, fried Brathering, and Heringssalat, which is a salted herring and red beet salad that includes chunks of chicken. So let's get it over with and just say 'Herring' ... delicious Herring ...
  • a cup of cold water with four drops of ammonia ... but that might kill you ... so unless suicide is a cure ...
  • peel a goat's head and put it in a pot, covering it with water. Add vegetables and spices appealing to your taste and boil it for four to twelve hours. To cure your hangover, drink the broth then crack the goat skull open and eat the brain
  • cold pizza
  • lime juice popsicles
  • first, take an aspirin or some sort of headache cure. Then, take some Alka Seltzer. Finally, take some Kaopectate or other diarrhea cure
  • turn the shower on so just a trickle of hot water is flowing. Then, lay on your back with your head directly under the shower. Let the steamy water splash your face to steam all the evil out of you. Simultaneously, drinking a light beer as your hair of the dog
  • take a blender and throw in two carrots, two oranges, two bananas, two multivitamins and throw in about a half pound of uncooked chicken breast. BUT WAIT! That sounds like the salmonella would kill you! So you might want to cook that chicken first ­ or not attempt this hangover cure at all as it is both dangerous and disgusting.
  • cumin tea
  • a vegetable daquiri. A regular daquiri is made by mixing a half ounce of schnapps with an ounce of light rum, an ounce of lime juice, a teaspoon of powdered sugar and an ounce of your chosen fruit. Just replace the fruit with a vegetable and good luck trying to find a vegetatrian schnaaps.
  • ten consecutive shots of apple vinegar - or until you just can't stomach it any more
  • jalapenos and fried chicken
  • take some B1, or eat things like rice, grains, cereals, peas and nuts that have B1 in them
  • consecutive shots of apple vinegar, but don't do any more than ten
  • hungover in the winter? Eat hot soup! Hungover in the summer? Eat ice cream!
  • the Haitian voodoo cure of sticking thirteen black pins in the cork of the offending bottle.
  • nitrous Oxide. Now, we could swear that we gave this cure to you before. We can't imagine that we may have skipped this obvious cure as the staff of This is Hell are all big proponents of laughing gas. But just in case we did offer this to you as a cure before, we're giving you a second one free. So, if nitrous doesn't cure your hangover, then how 'bout a quick unexpected smack in the back of the head.
  • grilled veal that has marinated in beer over night
  • 'Red Draw,' that¹s a Bloody Mary that substitutes Beer for the Vodka
  • dog biscuits - four or five should do
  • mix one glass of milk with one glass of white wine. Heat slowly mixing in honey, lemon, cinnamon, and a pinch of nutmeg. Strain, drink and you¹re cured.
  • a rolling pin rolled from the tip of your chin to the back of your neck repeatedly to ease yoru pain
  • whilst drunk, a packet of glucose tablets rather than food
  • jello before bed
  • hair of the dog with a salted prune thrown inside
  • overnight saline drip followed by pure oxygen in the morning.
  • Beer Soup. What the hell is beer soup? Take the yoke from an egg and mix with sugar until it is a white color. Then, take a bottle of beer and bring to a boil on the stove. Pour beer into a mug and add egg and sugar mixture.
  • 'Hungarian Coffee' ­ take one big cup of extra strong black coffee, no sugar, no milk, nothing like that added. Instead, put about a half a teaspoon of salt and take a half of a fresh lemon and squeeze it into the black coffee. Drink this hot and as fast as possible without burning your pallet.
  • what's called Spanish coffee. That's espresso coffee, rum, milk and sugar
  • 'Tacos de Cabeza' ­ that's cow head stew tacos
  • in America's frontier west, cowboys supposedly swore by a tea made from rabbit droppings
  • soba noodles and dashi (seaweed broth)
  • 'Thai Papaya Salad' which consists of Thinly chopped papaya mixed with a slew little red chillies, garlic and fish sauce.
  • scrambled eggs with soy sauce
  • artichokes
  • it's toast again ­ but this time the cure is to put the biggest hottest jalapeno you can find on a piece of toast. Eat. Puke. Enjoy.
  • burnt toast. Eat of much of it as possible. And remember set your toaster to eleven.
  • a drop of rose oil on each temple
  • brandy-laced sponge cake
  • aspirin followed by Alka-Seltzer, Kaopectate and finally, a huge dose of vitamin B
  • a fat burner with ephidrine. The examples we found listed online for a thermogenic weightlifting supplement containing ephidrine included Rip Fuel, Hydroxycut or Xenadrine. However, also online were concerns about heart-related illnesses that may be connected to the intake of ephedrine.
  • we've had chocolate covered in snow and chocolate cereal roasted on toast, but we have never had ... choclate milk!
  • one can vegetable beef soup cooked with three tablespoons of hot sauce and half a bottle of beer
  • chinese restaurant hot and sour soup
  • fill a pint glass three-quarters with beer and then top it off with tomato juice
  • mix a small bottle of a high fructose hydration drink (e.g., Powerade, Gatorade) with one can of an energy drink (e.g. Red Bull, RockStar). Add one tablespoon of baking soda and stir until the fizzing stops. Then shoot it back as fast as possible.
  • prickly pear extract
  • banana smoothie popsicles
  • a wheatgrass juice
  • gulp down a tablespoon of Assyrian Paste and quickly wash that nasty crap down with a glass of water. What's Assyrian Paste you ask? It's a teaspoon of ground swallow's beak and a teaspoon of myrrh mixed together.
  • beer mixed with clam juice
  • sixteen ounces of coconut juice with a whole lime squeezed into it
  • baked beans
  • stick a lemon slice in your armpit or ­ better yet ­ in your ass
  • valerian root
  • chicken soup, dramamine and non-thought provoking television
  • mix one glass of milk with one glass of white wine in a saucepan, Heat slowly mixing in honey, lemon, cinnamon, and a pinch of nutmeg. Strain and be cured.
  • a pint of cold yogurt mixed with a pint of cold water till thoroughly blended. Now drnk it.
  • hold your head under ice water and slowly let the air escape out your mouth until you can no longer stay under. Then lift your head out dummy!
  • tuna sub - or a tuna hoagie - depending on where you live.
  • half a cup of very black coffeee plus a third of a cup of lemon juice
  • mashed potatoes
  • cold wet towels under your arms, behind your knees, on your neck and over your eyes until needed
  • fill a glass two-thirds full of water ... insert utensil so that the metal is in contact with the water ... touch the other end of the utensil to your temple while simultaneously taking a drink of water. Repeat as needed.
  • frozen grapes
  • a headstand, also known as a handstand
  • overnight saline drip followed by pure oxygen in the morning ­ it's the cure US air force pilots use!
  • crushed aspirin mixed into some kind of uncola-like drink like 7 Up or Sprite
  • an allegedly traditional Indian cure is to drink a glass of warm urine. We're assuming that's human urine.
  • beer mixed with clam juice
  • brewer's yeast mixed into a glass of water
  • dried bull's penis
  • SCUBA diving
  • onion soup
  • pickled tomatoes washed down by the brine they were pickled in.
  • yoga or pillates
  • lemon gelato
  • two drops of tobasco on your tongue tip followed by the baby formula Pedialyte.
  • RU-21, a drug created by the former KGB to keep its agents sober so they could drink opponents under the table
  • sixteen ounces of water and a pasty
  • maguro sushi
  • wash down a teaspoon of sugar with a lager that contains at least four percent alcohol
  • a shot of brandy mixed with a shot of vodka or scotch. Add a heaping teaspoon of your favorite hot sauce. Shoot in one fast gulp.
  • a cup of boiled water mixed with a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt
  • break an egg in a glass and whisk until smooth. Top off with a half pint of milk, stir again and drink.
  • make a bowl of pasta, but instead of putting pasta sauce on it, throw in a can of plum tomatoes on top. Add spices to make it hot, then throw a shot of vodka on top.
  • Alka-Seltzer followed by as much of a gallon of water as you can drink. Take your time drinking it. Don't think you have to drink it in one big swallow. After you have had as much water as you can take, have a bowl of leek and potato soup
  • put two slices of white bread with chocolate flavored cereal on each slice in a toaster oven, then heat and eat.
  • cottage fries, covered in a mixture of beef gravy, frozen peas, sauteed onions and hamburger. Add ketchup, salt and pepper to taste.
  • ten fishsticks and an energy drink
  • a shot of Polish vodka mixed with a shot of Jack and a dash of black pepper. Shoot it back and you're cured
  • absinthe
  • make a cup of coffee. Blend it with pepper, wasabi, hot sauce, and ice. Gulp it down all in one sitting
  • drink a flat beer with a shot of vodka mixed into it and an egg yolk placed on top. Drink while eating a chicken sandwich of your choice
  • mix the strongest possible vodka and grapefruit juice you can stomach, then drink down the whole thing as fast as possible. Immedately after drinking, wrap your wrists in ice.
  • get two bananas and two cans of your favorite cola. Immediately after you wake up, eat a banana as fast as you can and do ten jumping jacks. Then, quickly, drink one can of cola, slamming it without stopping, followed by five more jumping jacks. Repeat with the second banana and second cola.
  • cut the fat off of a whole bunch of bacon and tie it all together in one long chain of fat. Then, tie a string to the end and swallow while holding the string. Now, pull the whole thing out of your throat which will make you vomit, curing your hangover. TiH suggests that you always consult a physician before tying a string to something ­ swallowing it ­ then pulling it out of your throat.
  • mix four ounces of real orange juice, four ounces of water, two teaspoons of Karo syrup and a pinch of salt. Take one teaspoobn of the mixture every fifteen minutes until nausea passes. Store in fridge between doses.
  • unsweetened pure cranberry juice
  • run a warm, not hot, bath while frying up some bacon. Eat the bacon till the tub is at the right temperature. Then, get in and soak while eating as many bananas as possible.
  • take a sour apple, like a macintosh, cut it into big chunks and eat. Then, drink something very fizzy like a ginger ale. This should cause you to vomit and will definitely cause you to pass some of the worst gas you have ever experienced. The smell may cause you to vomit again. Obviously, this cure is based on the idea that to cure a hangover you must vomit. This is not something we, necessarily, believe.
  • half a pint of milk with an egg whisked inside ­ and drink
  • oral sex ­ not sure whether that meant giving or receiving ­ but try both and see what works out best for you
  • melt velveeta on some chips ­ then put jalapenos all over the chips and eat ­ the cheese coats your stomach and the jalapenos supposedly release endorphins
  • one bowl of Rice Krispies and milk, topped with grated cheese and a little chilli powder. Microwave until cheese melts and eat.
  • two cups of epson salt and 1 cup of vinegar in a warm bath or as hot as you can stand. Add 100mg of grapeseed extract to the bath.
  • squeeze a lemon and a grapefruit into a jar ­ add anything sweet ­ like honey or sugar ­ a couple teaspoons should do ­ then add steaming water equivalent to one half of the juice and sugar mixture ­ put it in the fridge ­ and when you wake up hungover ­ drink it ­ just don¹t make this concoction while drunk because you will probably light yourself on fire
  • listen to loud, pounding music with headphones, and hold bags of ice on each nipple - this should cause you to, well, poop and many believe that a good pooping actually cures a hangover
  • rub half a lime on your forehead - while this doesn't cure every aspect of yoru hangover, it may cure your pounding headache
  • fish flavored chips, thre's British skips and Japanese chips, they're all supposed to work
  • grasshoppers
  • a jar of baby bees
  • a shot of slivovitz in coffee
  • head cheese on pumpernickel
  • drink one glass of cold milk, then eat five teaspoons of ketchup and some tobasco hot sauce.
  • 'Czadzina' - duck's blood soup
  • add about five drops of each of three essential oils - eucalyptus, peppermint and sandalwood - to a very warm bath.
  • pour a glass of fresh orange juice, then add one teaspoon lime juice and 1/8 teaspoon cumin. Drink it down.
  • 'Kudja' is a traditional Chinese formula, a mixture of ginkgo and kudzu - both ginkgo and kudzu have been hangover cures in the past - but kudja - the mixture of the two - is our hangover cure this week
  • soot mixed with water...but you better consult your local druggist, chemist, alchemist or chimney-sweep on this one. The charcoal in soot should relieve you of the poisons from the previous night's drunk. Apparently, desperate folk used to drink a mix of soot and water.
  • juice and soup - drink some juice - eat some soup
  • ...really more of a preventative...eating six raw almonds before drinking eliminates hangovers
  • 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth, 3/4 ounce of apple schnapps, 1/2 ounce cognac mixed together. Stir well over ice cubes in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Twist lemon peel over and serve.
  • warm flat - left out over night - sports drink
  • put an egg in a cocktail glass; fill with two to three ounces of sherry - drink
  • jalapenos and seltzer water - eat as many peppers as you deem necessary
  • a Dr. Pepper followed by a Mocha Frappaccino
  • oil of evening primrose
  • drink coffee or tea with alot of sugar in it. Then, eat a half gallon of ice cream
  • a shot of half Tabasco and half tequila
  • get yourself a slurpee or some such frozen cola drink - put some pop rocks on your tongue - or some such exploding candy - and eat a spoonful of slurpee. Repeat as desired, but be careful about getting brain freeze.
  • volcanic dust, or zeolite
  • run until you break into a sweat. Then lick the sweat and spit it out
  • eat raw cabbage, pickled pigs feet and drink a diet cola...near a bucket...if you know what we mean
  • menudo - tripe soup - not the band or their music
  • human breastmilk
  • lots of water, sleep and a big bowl of marijuana
  • 'Poutine' -- the Quebec national junk food. It consists of French fries, meat gravy and cheese curds
  • coffee made with tonic water, orange juice and honey
  • a pint mixed half and half with flat Guinness and champagne - the champagne should still be bubbly. This is known as a 'Black Velvet'
  • mix two ounces of vodka with two ounces of cold beef soup - chew up a few hot peppers until they are mush - then wash the mush down with the mixture of vodka and soup
  • melt a tablespoon of butter and grate in some cheddar cheese. Mix together and season with salt and pepper. Drink this when you are about to go to bed and another dose in the morning.
  • milk thistle helps the liver function properly, so maybe it can help yours get over last night's binge
  • boil some ginger in water, and sip the liquid all day long
  • breakfast in a Glass...take two tablespoons of instant coffee, two eggs, two shots of gin, six ounces Guinness, six ounces milk, and six ounces of orange juice and mix them all together - mix the juice in last to avoid curdling - and then serve cold
  • two espresso(i?) and a croissant
  • willow tree bark extract - also known as salicin...as in salicylic acid...an ingredient in aspirin. We have come across alot of debate over whether aspirin is a healthy hangover cure. Maybe the good part of aspirin as a hangover cure is contained in the willow bark extract? Somebody tell us!
  • bread and honey
  • 'Prairie Oysters': take a glass, rinse it in olive oil, throw in some Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon juice, a tablespoon of ketchup, salt and pepper - and then carefully place an egg yolk on top of that mess - and then eat it with a spoon.
  • Marmite on toast
  • olive oil - to be drank by itself - a shot should do - or chased with the hair of the dog
  • matjes - they're raw fresh salted baby herring - chased with a beer
  • bar of chocolate covered in snow
  • 500 milligrams of ginseng with an energy drink chaser
  • swallow two raw eggs before going out to drink
  • eat a stick of butter before going out drinking
  • eat a pickled sheep's eye in a glass of tomato juice.
  • turkey and vegetable soup with 5 shots of Tabasco
  • twelve ounces of V-8, 1 jalapeno, 1 garlic clove, 3 cubes of ice. mix with water
  • 'Vegemite' on toast. It's food, which is good. It's salty, which helps. And it contains vitamin B. Who knew?
  • caviar
  • drink milk between drinks - and grape juice the day after
  • calisthenics. That's right - exercise. Some quick calisthenics should start you toward sweating that alcohol right out of your system.
  • kudzu, a Chinese herb that not only alleviates the pains from a hangover, but also curbs your taste for alcohol.
  • blend eight ounces of carrot juice, an ounce of beet juice, four ounces of celery juice and an ounce of parsley juice. Drink up and what you can't finish have later if needed.
  • light spaghetti with tomato sauce - no onions - no peppers - just a light spaghetti with plain tomato sauce
  • take a sour apple - macintosh preferred - cut it up into chunks - eat them - then slam down an intense ginger ale or beer - you'll probably puke - you'll definitely have nasty farts - but your hangover will be gone
  • raw cabbage
  • pure oxygen
  • mix four ounces of water, the juice of half of a lemon and a drop or two of fennel oil. Drink this concoction before breakfast.
  • an energy drink containing ginkgo biloba
  • tomatoes - just eat raw tomatoes
  • a steam in a sauna - followed by a jump into a freezing body of water
  • a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter before going to bed - and maybe another when you wake up the next morning
  • a mixture of honey and mineral water - don't know how you mix them - maybe try a blender - but a mixture of honey and mineral water
  • two "hair of the dog" treatments: 1) drink beer only from dark bottles so the sunlight can't creep in and kill the B1 that is naturally formed in the brewing process...and 2) a bowl of Coco Puffs - with milk - and some bourbon on the side
  • mineral water and antacid - but make sure your antacid has absolutely no aspirin in it
  • drink chicken soup. The old Jewish remedy is drinking chicken soup to calm the stomach and combat dehydration. Drink it!
  • bitter almonds and raw eel
  • take a tablespoon or two of honey...but if you're truly desperate drink some sauerkraut juice. Supposedly the juice fights off the toxic chemicals that are found in liquor due to fermentation. These chemicals are found most often in bourbon - and least often in vodka
  • drink a twelve ounce glass of whole milk before going drinking. Only drink the most distilled alcohol during your binge - say - nothing but straight vodka.
  • after heavy drinking - and when you know you just can't stop yourself from sleeping - take some NoDoze and wake up without a hangover. Apparently, your body needs caffeine to overcome the headache. Most hangovers, according to this cure, are caused by caffeine withdrawal. So if you just take a big dose of caffeine before sleeping, like NoDoze, you'll be all set. This cure also suggests that drinks with caffeine, like Irish Coffee or Cuba Libre, can lessen the chance of a head-pounding hangover.
  • the Italian herbal bitter called Fernet-Branca
  • boullion...any broth made by cooking vegetables, poultry, meat or fish in water. The liquid that is strained off after cooking is the bouillon, which can form the base for soups and sauces.
  • mix eight ounces of water with two teaspoons of sugar right before you go to bed
  • the 'whining' cure If you don't feel good, everyone should know about it! Strangely enough, the more you tell others about how bad you feel, the better you feel.
  • The Acid Bomb
    • a lemon
    • Fresh Carrot Juice
    • 1 teaspoon L-gutamine powder
    • L-gutamine is an amino acid that can be dangerous to pregnant women. If you're preggers, or your partner is, then neither of you should be drinking anyway. One for health reasons, the other for support. Besides, showing that kind of support is probably good for your health in that your partner won't want to kill you out of jealousy for your booze.
    • Everyone else, take the lemon half and squeeze the juice into a glass. Add a heaping teaspoon of the L-gutamine and drink up.
  • A "Sputnik." Pour the following ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into a cocktail glass.
    • 1 1/2 ounces of vodka
    • 3/4 ounces bitters
    • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
    • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
    • 3 or 4 ice cubes
  • Take two aspirin, 200mg cysteine, 600mg vitamin C, and 1 tablet vitamin B-complex.
  • Mix the following in a blender, and as our associate producer Lizzie Gore pointed out, you'll need an industrial-size blender:
    • 1 banana
    • 1 small can V-8
    • 6 large strawberries
    • 2 tablespoons honey
    • 1 cup orange juice
    • 1-2 cups milk (or soy milk)
    • teaspoon salt
    • dash of nutmeg
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