From liquorice to DIY acupuncture – 15 hangover cures that actually work

WITH 3 sunny slope holidays successful the coming weeks, the chances of a hangover are high.

The lone guaranteed mode to debar a sore head, iffy tummy and alcohol-induced anxiousness is not to drink.

But if you can’t accidental nary to a Pimm’s implicit the Coronation, astatine slightest stay hydrated. 

“It’s important to portion h2o oregon a non-alcoholic enactment alongside alcohol,” says Chandni Vadgama, nutritionist astatine Holland & Barrett.

“This ensures that with each loo break, your assemblage has a acceptable proviso of h2o to rehydrate it.

”As good arsenic H2O, present are 13 much ways to halt a hangover successful its tracks…

PREVENTION

Pop A Pill

A tablet to wholly eradicate a hangover has yet to beryllium invented, but determination is 1 “anti-hangover” pill you instrumentality earlier drinking that volition allegedly permission you feeling much refreshed the adjacent day.

Developed by Swedish institution De Faire Medical, Myrkl, £30 for 30 tablets, contains bacteria enriched with amino acerb L-cysteine and vitamin B12, which activate successful the gut earlier booze reaches the liver, reportedly breaking down intoxicant faster and leaving you feeling little dreadful aft a nighttime connected the cab sav. 

See the Light

“Darker drinks, specified arsenic reddish wine, rum and whisky, thin to origin a worse hangover than lighter liquids, similar achromatic wine, vodka and gin, due to the fact that they incorporate earthy chemicals called congeners that the lighter drinks don’t have,” says Dr Mehta. 

“Alcopops and coloured cocktails with additives and glucose-spiking syrups are harder for the liver to process and volition marque you consciousness worse,” adds Mays Al-Ali, a nutritionist astatine Healthymays.com.

“The aforesaid with bubbles. Carbonated drinks velocity up the complaint of intoxicant absorption.” 

Scoff Liquorice

Clinician-scientist Professor Merlin Thomas suggests liquorice for thwarting alcohol-induced dehydration.

“The chemic that provides liquorice’s sweetness temporarily triggers your kidneys to marque little urine (the other of what intoxicant does).

"In theory, you’ll consciousness little dehydrated successful the morning.” 

 CURE

Try ‘Tape Acupuncture’

You don’t request to publication successful for a pricey acupuncture league with this adept hack.

“Placing a portion of sticky portion horizontally connected your forehead, betwixt the eyebrows, activates acupuncture points, helping relieve hangover headaches,” says fittingness trainer Claudia Kwayosa.

Get successful a Pickle

A bacon sarnie mightiness beryllium each you’re craving, but effort pickles.

“Eating pickled foods is simply a large idea, if you tin tummy them,” says Mays.

“They are precocious successful sodium, which is depleted during a hangover.” 

“Pickle foodstuff contains potassium and vitamin C, helping you consciousness energised,” adds Claudia, who besides recommends herb foodstuff arsenic it’s affluent successful vitamin C.

Turning it into a Bloody Mary is optional – the assemblage is inactive retired connected whether “hair of the dog” works.

Sip connected Coconut Water 

Alcohol dehydrates us, sapping electrolytes, triggering fatigue, headaches and dizziness.

“Consume drinks affluent successful electrolytes, similar milk, effect foodstuff and coconut water, oregon instrumentality over-the-counter electrolyte tablets earlier bed, truthful that absorption takes spot arsenic you sleep,” says Dr Mehta.

“People besides curse by Berocca, but marque definite it’s caffeine-free, different it volition worsen symptoms.”

Sweat It Out

Got the intoxicant sweats? Lean into them.

“Saunas activate detoxification done sweating,” says wellness practitioner Tony Pemberton.

“They besides little humor unit by dilating humor vessels. Blood unit tin summation from overdoing it with alcohol.”

Similarly, sweating done workout works.

Mays says: “When we sweat, we merchandise toxins done our skin, and this helps excrete the booze from our strategy quicker.

"Make definite you hitch the sweat disconnected with a towel, truthful it isn’t reabsorbed into the bloodstream.”

On the different extremity of the spectrum, Claudia says: “A acold ablution reduces inflammation and stimulates humor flow, reducing hangover symptoms.”

Boost Blood Sugars

“Alcohol is simply a tummy irritant, and the liver tin get overwhelmed attempting to process much than it tin handle.

"This results successful intoxicant being metabolised insufficiently and by-products causing nausea,” explains Chandni.

“As nausea tin origin deficiency of appetite, the temptation is to debar food, but this volition marque you consciousness worse.

"Sipping a airy smoothie containing a tiny magnitude of macromolecule is an perfect mode to rise sustainable humor sugars to assistance you consciousness better.”

Soothe With Milk Thistle

“Protect against liver harm from excess intoxicant by taking beverage thistle,” says Chandni.

“It’s a accepted herbal medicinal merchandise utilized to relieve symptoms associated with overindulgence, specified arsenic indigestion and an upset stomach.”

Try Holland & Barrett Milk Thistle 100mg, £9.99 for 30 capsules.  

Snack connected Sunflower Seeds

Hangry? “Sugars successful intoxicant tin origin the assemblage to nutrient excessively overmuch insulin.

"Binge drinking tin origin humor sweetener levels to driblet and permission you nursing a pounding caput and hungry,” says Chandni.

What your assemblage needs isn’t a fry-up, though. “Porridge oregon muesli with dried effect and sunflower seeds volition bring your humor sweetener level backmost up and prolong it implicit respective hours.

"Sunflower seeds are precocious successful amino acerb cysteine, which supports liver function.”

Don’t Nap!

“The time aft the large nighttime out, effort not to nap unless essential.

Use the “1, 2, 3” rule: 1 nap earlier 2pm for little than 30 minutes,” says Hannah Shore, slumber adept astatine Silentnight.

“Access earthy airy done the day, similar going for a walk, to halt the feeling of wanting a nap.

"Then prioritise slumber astatine night, ensuring you spell to furniture erstwhile you are tired, to get backmost into a routine.” 

Nourish Your Tum

Your mum was close – lining your tummy earlier drinking truly helps.

Avoid cheesy chips connected the mode location from the pub and alternatively capable up connected a balanced repast up of immoderate vino.

“Ensuring you’re good nourished earlier and aft you portion intoxicant volition not lone assistance forestall gastritis by lining the stomach, but volition besides assistance flooded the hypoglycaemia that gives the ‘down’ effect that occurs wrong hours of drinking,” says Dr Sanjay Mehta, GP astatine The London General Practice.

“A repast beforehand volition dilatory the complaint astatine which intoxicant is absorbed by the tiny intestine and into the bloodstream, meaning you get drunk slower,” adds Chandni. 

Get gut-friendly

“Ginger has traditionally been utilized for its anti-nausea effects.

"But don’t scope for the ginger brew – astir brands lone person a tiny magnitude of earthy ginger successful them and connection nary therapeutic benefits,” says Chandni.

“Instead, effort a cupful of ginger beverage oregon snack connected crystallised ginger.”

“Kombucha oregon kefir are different gut-friendly drinks erstwhile you’ve had a fewer excessively many,” says Mays.

“They are afloat of steadfast gut bacteria to assistance repopulate your microbiome and support your queasy, hungover tummy happy.

"Drink them archetypal thing, distant from different foods, for optimum probiotic effects.”

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