The World's 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies

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When you travel the world, having a few drinks with your hosts is a great way to get a sense of the local culture. But excessive alcohol consumption can cause physiological consequences. Don't worry—a hangover is universal, and your new friends probably already know a way to cope with it.

Whether you find the preferred ritual to be shocking, d|sgusting, or delightful, here are 19 of the strangest remedies you'll encounter.

1. Ancient Rome

The ancient Romans, fond of massive, orgiastic bacchanals, sometimes woke up with feeling like there was a chariot race going on in their heads. But forget hair of the dog, how about feather of the bird? Pliny the Elder recommended the to deep-fry a canary and scarf it down. Debate goes on about whether the bird was behe@ded and skinned or eaten whole, but everyone seems to agree that those crunchy bones were some of the best bites.

2. Namibia

The morning after a rager, Namibians drink Buffalo Milk. Guess what it doesn't have in it? Buffalo milk. It's just clotted cream, dark rum, spiced rum, cream liqueur, and whole cream. It sounds like drinking a cup is how you'd get a hangover in the first place. In addition to a belly full of booze and dairy, Buffalo Milk adds a sugar crash to the blend of bad feelings.

3. Puerto Rico

Supposedly, drinkers in Puerto Rico have figured out how to prevent a hangover. Before an evening of indulgence, they rub a slice of lemon (or lime) into the armpit of their drinking arm. You read that right. It supposedly prevents dehydration.

A few thoughts on this:

A) There's no way it works. Like, at all. There is zero science behind it.
B) Why just your drinking arm? What if you double-fist it?
C) This is widely reported as a known remedy, but no Puerto Ricans I contacted while researching this reported actually having done the lemon trick. To call it an urban legend would be generous. Which leads me to:
D) This is almost certainly a joke that somebody made up to see if they could trick their idiot friend into rubbing a lemon into his armpit. Maybe the guy smelled bad, and somebody wanted him to freshen up before a night out.

4. Japan

After too much sake in one of Tokyo's little nomiya bars, Japanese drinkers eat umeboshi, a pickled, dried ume, which is similar to a plum or apricot. It's not just a little pickled, though. It's really, REALLY pickled, to the point of puckering. Some steep it in green tea and then drink the thing to make it less concentrated, but it's still horrifically sour (even the milder, non-dried version, umezuke, is hard to swallow).

There's at least a little science behind this one, as the salt in the plum may actually help replenish your depleted electrolytes. But putting something that sour in an already sour stomach? Pass.

5. Germany

Belly full of Bitburger? Time for katerfrühstück , or "hangover breakfast." Get ready for a plate of rollmops—raw, pickled herring wrapped around pieces of gherkin and onion. On an empty stomach. While suffering what Germans describe as "the wailing of the cats." I like pickled herring, but no. Just no.

6. Canada

O, Canada! You guys do it right. To top off the last round of LaBatt, Canadians stop in for some poutine—a bowl of thick-cut french fries, with chunks of Canadian cheese curd, smothered in a savory gravy with fresh pepper corns. It's not as good as it sounds. It's better. It's almost enough to make me want to move in with my Canadian ex-girlfriend. And her husband.

7. Sicily

Three words for you. Dried. Bull. [..]. Want to chew on that? This has gone somewhat out of vogue, but in the past, Sicilians with hangovers would gnaw on a good ol' dried bull [..]. The[..]umption was that it restores your virility. Or perhaps your brain just eliminates the hangover as quickly as possible to stop your body from eating any more [..].

8. Haiti

Some Haitian voodoo practitioners go on the offensive with their hangovers—they stick 13 black-headed pins into the cork of the bottle that did that to them. I'm no scholar of voodoo, but I have to[..]ume this is revenge on the bottle, which brought on this awful thing in the dark of night. What do they do for screw-tops? I do not know.

9. Ancient Greece

Not to be outdone by their canary-eating contemporaries, the ancient Greeks treated their hangovers with a breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs. Owl eggs, sure, I mean, eggs are pretty much eggs. But lungs are extremely rubbery (I tried some buffalo lung in Southeast Asia, long ago). I can't imaging that bouncing around in an upset stomach. Yeesh.

10. Ireland

So, according to Irish legend, the best way to cure a hangover is to get buried up to your neck in wet river sand. Ireland is not a warm country, so the wet river sand should be rather chilly. This could have the same effect as a cold shower. It'll wake you up and get the blood pumping, but there's not much medical evidence that it cures a headache and nausea. Really, this seems like another prank-turned-legend. "Up all night drinking poteen, is it? To the river!"

11. Vietnam

This one stinks. In Vietnam, some people grind rhino horn into hot water and drink it. This same trick is believed to "cure" everything from allergies to cancer. As a result, the demand for rhino horns is so high that those amazing creatures are being poached at insane numbers. Look, there's no way it works, so stop k!lling the rhinos, okay? Okay.

12. Turkey

Trouble with your gut? You just need more guts. That's the logic behind Turkey's hangover cure: tripe soup. The innards are boiled with garlic, onion, and sometimes cream. You can even eat it prophylactically to prevent an imminent hangover. Maybe there's something to it—this is also a popular remedy in Mexico and Romania. Makes a headache sound not so bad.

13. Mongolia

And the winner for stomach-turningest of them all? Arguably, it's Mongolia. After a long night of wrestling and drinking, Mongolians shake off the morning cobwebs with a!!tail made of tomato juice annnnnnd... pickled sheep's eyes. Pickled. Eyeballs. From a sheep. Two of them. Mixed with tomato juice. I have nothing to add.

14-18. United States

With so many strange cultural traditions in this oddball world, you might be glad we Americans aren't a bunch of voodoo eyeball riverbank weirdos. Stop right there. We drink enough—we oughta be as freaky as anybody else.

14. Raw eggs. Let's start with the Prairie Oyster, a popular remedy in the Western U.S. There are many variations, but they all include Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt n' pepper, and a whole raw egg. Gulp, down the hatch. Optional ingredients include a shot of vodka, ketchup or tomato juice, and vinegar. Oh, and maybe salmonella.

15. Sweat swishing. Some Native American cultures, according to the BBC, believe that you should go for a run and work up a sweat. Then you lick the sweat off your arms, swish it around, and spit it out. Exercise certainly can help push the toxins through your system. The licking and spitting thing? Leave that part out.

16. Hangover Heaven. In Vegas there is a special morning after bus called Hangover Heaven. Climb aboard, and the crew administers fluids, vitamins, and other supplements via IV while you cruise the strip. Vegas is d|sgusting, for many reasons, but Hangover Heaven might be the place to find the Gizmodo crew in the mornings during CES 2013.

17. Eggs Benedict. This is one thing the U.S. got very, very right. As the story goes, back in the late 1800s, a well to-do socialite partied way too hard. The next morning, he asked the restaurant at the Waldorf-Astoria to put together this crazy sandwich with a poached egg, ham, and hollandaise sauce, on top of an English muffin. You're welcome, world.

18. Pellet tea. Eggs Benedict aside, the U.S. is also responsible for one of the nastiest cures on this list. In the wild west days, hungover cowboys drank a "tea" made of rabbit droppings. Just take the pellets and steep them in hot water. Rabbit !! tea. Yeah. How about a beer?

19. Brooklyn, NY

There's one cure on this list I can guarantee to work. After a night out boozing, here's what I do when I get home:

1) Drink as much water possible.
2) Pop a vitamin B-complex, because alcohol depletes you of those vitamins.
3) Take a couple of ibuprofen.
After doing those three things, I have almost never, ever woken up with a hangover. Woken up still drunk, sure, but not hungover. Science beats superstition, every time.

via Gizmodo

What do you do to deal with a hangover?

The World's 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies - ThatHustle.com

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Drink alot of water after you stop drinking and try to stay awake long enough to pee the alcohol out works for me. I wouldnt be opposed to trying the vitamin b pills, but passin on ibuprofen.

before going to sleep drink a gatorade







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711 siurpee

then i just sstop getting hangovers all together waking up mad early

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man, ain't nothing like a bowl of hot vietnamese noodle soup, pho. during a hang over... but yall hit it right on the head, they say that a lot of hangovers aren't the result of over alcohol consumption--it's the restriction of oxygen because all that second hand smoke or smoking one is exposed to.

I like to eat a bowl of pho before i fall asleep, drink plenty of water. have a bottle of water, vitamin water, or gatorade next to the bed when i wake up so I don't have to go downstairs still drunk.

and never lie down... lying down when you have the spins is the worst.

!! those remedies drink plenty of water after you're done to make sure you're hydrated

Menudo the next morning ftw!

We know how to do it right. The only thing missing is adding slices of donair meat to it.

if i wake up with a hangover, gatorade, a sausage egg and cheese sandwich, and a blunt does it for me

That's the winner.

Gotta keep a gatorade on deck. Me personally I have to have bacon. I went on a field trip once and after the lesson we all went back to the hotel and got !!ed up. I took like 15 shots of tequila and smoked a joint, I was !!ed off. Got up the next morning and got breakfast, ate a plate of bacon and was feeling like a champ for the rest of the day. So now if I get !!ed up I just stop at the grocery store on the way home for that emergency pack just in case.

I always found that weed helps out... [pic]

Rehydrate yourself, You could do the asprin thing but it puts a strain on your liver.


Rollmops though??

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There is no cure for a hangover. The only thing that works for me, and it's temporary, is stroking the snake

have a joint rolled up the next day and a beer u gucci after that

i dont get hang overs i wake up drunk or im fine. how ever that puntine !! is awsome while your drunk

I go to PR atleast 3 times a yr to visit fam and ive never head of this bullshyt b4[pic]