The Complete Guide to Hangover Cures and Remedies

By William Morris

This highly informative book contains a large variety of hangover cures and remedies both old and new. It also contains detailed expositions of the causes and effects of hangovers and how to handle these in various ways. This fact filled book offers many tips and tricks to prevent an deal with hangovers. Through the ages there have been nearly as many hangover remedies invented as there are varieties of mixed drinks. Unfortunately, most don't work. If you've made too many trips to the punch bowl, you'll be all too familiar with the pounding head, queasy stomach, dry mouth and other miserable symptoms that accompany a hangover. But even though people have been getting hangovers for thousands of years, doctors aren't sure exactly what they are or what's the best remedy. Hangover relief always seems to be just out of reach. However, a few time-tested hangover remedies seem to work for most revelers, most of the time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Green King Press
• Release date: Apr 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476226231

William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. Morris also found success as a writer with such works as The Earthly Paradise (1870), News from Nowhere (1890), and The Well at the World’s End (1896). A cofounder of the Socialist League, he was a committed revolutionary socialist who played a major part in the growing acceptance of Marxism and anarchism in English society.

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INTRODUCTION

Okay, so you had fun with your friends last night and drank a bucketful of alcohol. However, this morning you found it hard to wake, your head was pounding like a pneumatic drill and you were feeling more than a little nauseous.

And what was wrong with you? A hangover that's what!

The term 'hangover' may not be familiar to everyone, but for many of us, it's a word that brings a chill to the very thought of waking up in the morning, still tired with an aching body, a headache, feeling nauseous and with a mouth dryer than the sole of an Afghanistani's flip-flop. Yet, most people don't even think about the consequences while out partying with friends and family.

Never again is a claim many of us have made the morning after the night before, while suffering with a skull-pounding hangover. Unfortunately, this vow is often short-lived and is particularly hard to maintain during the festive and holiday season. (People tend to increase their alcohol consumption during the holidays when there are more parties).

The most important message of course is that people shouldn't drink too much in the first place, because a hangover is just one negative consequence of excessive alcohol intake.

There are numerous other downsides, which can be very serious, such as loss of control over emotions, anger or moroseness and poor decision-making. Drinking too much in a single night can result in fatal alcohol poisoning. In other words, you can literally drink yourself to death.

WHAT IS A HANGOVER?

The term hangover has been defined as:

"A collection of unpleasant and painful symptoms, which can develop after drinking too much alcohol. Those symptoms can range from mild discomfort to more severe