Hangover Prevention
Captain Birdseye
For those who like a drink, but not the hangovers and possible brain
damage, check out
http://www.ocs.mq.edu.au/~hwright/thiamine.html
This thing really works...
jimdrinkin
found in Photonics magazine:
A LIGHT CURE (Reprinted with permission from the April 1997 issue of
Photonics Spectra, copyright Laurin Publishing Co. Inc.:
http://www.laurin.com)
Medical science has learned to perform many miracles in this
century, but we still cure a few extremely common maladies with folk
medicine and prayer. Chicken soup, for example, has long "cured" the
common cold, and it relieves some symptoms of the flu as well.
Those symptoms -- headache and nausea -- are common in another
ailment: the hangover. Common folk remedies for this uncomfortable
post-party affliction are aspirin and its modern substitutes, Alka
Seltzer; strong black coffee, and the perennial favorite of alcoholics,
the "hair of the dog that bit you."
In Eastern Europe and the Far East, researchers have found a
more technical solution, though they're not yet sure how it works. In
Latvia, Russia, the Ukraine and China, a technique called laser
intravascular irradiation has become a popular cure for hangover and
other common maladies, according to Janis Spigulis of the Fiberoptics
and Optoelectronics Group at the University of Latvia. In fact, Spigulis
carried some sample fiber delivery systems to the recent SPIE Biomedical
Optics '97 conference in California.
"We have some 30 doctors here using this method quite
successfully, and not only to get rid of hangover, of course," Spigulis
says. "Unfortunatelly, I have not yet heard any resonable explanation of
this photobiostimulation mechanism. There are many theories, including
that of extra blood oxygenation." But, he added, direct measurements
showed that oxygen levels in blood remained the same after laser
irradiation was switched on.
This cure is effected in doctors' offices at present, but one
can easily imagine the day when fiber optic biostimulation kits will be
available at the corner drugstore. Until then, add this advice to your
folk remedy list: Shine a light on your pain.
remove the .hangover to reply
--
Ran into a rainstorm
Ducked back into a bar door
It was all night pouring, pouring rain
But not a drop on me
--Robert Hunter
Fetus
Cyber Slacker!!! wrote:
>
> Just Drink as much water as you can before you go to sleep (after an
> evening of drinking)!!
> Hangovers are caused because one becomes dehydrated.
> There is no other real cure.
>
But alcohol also screws up your antidiuretic hormone, meaning you'll
whiz out most of the excess water, limiting the effectiveness of the
rehydration. Other than that, it's not a bad idea. Just don't take
aspirin with it.
Fetus
Dean Carriere
The only way to cure a hangover is not to drink - but that's no fun!
I figure that good ol' water it the best remedy. I try to drink a glass
every now and then during a alcoholic binge. Also it seems that if I can
stay awake until I sober up it helps for some reason too. Before sleeping
I try and put away as much water as I can to curb that
wake-up-and-I'm-parched effect. I keep another glass of water beside my
bed in case I need another. If all this fails then I've definitley drank
too much! I haven't did that in many moons though. I think trial and
error begins to make more and more sense with age. :o)
Some people claim that all sorts of alcoholic and non-alcoholic concoctions
in a cup are a cure. I don't know about you but the last thing I want the
morning after is another beer let alone clamato juice with Tylenol puree!
Unverified User
I've heard that if you take some vitimin B, of which brewer's yeast is a
good source of, helps to prevent hangovers. So Mom was right when she
told you to take your vitimins