Three natural hangover remedies

Although there’s no hangover cure, there are remedies you can use to ease the unpleasant symptoms.

Use these three natural remedies to ease hangovers

Hangover remedy #1: Water

While drinking water seems too simple a solution, it works.

Since alcohol causes dehydration, drinking lots of water before bed and throughout the next day will go a long way in curbing your hangover.

In fact, “some researchers believe that it’s the water people drink to swallow other purported hangover remedies, such as aspirin or ibuprofen that makes the difference, not the pills themselves,” says Dr Jonathan Wright of Nutrition & Healing.

While aspirin or ibuprofen is first choice for some people as a hangover remedy, you should avoid them. The reason? These pills are hard on your stomach and so is alcohol. And products containing acetaminophen like these pills are also hard on your liver which doesn’t need any extra strain while it’s working overtime to process all the alcohol you’ve consumed.

Hangover remedy #2: Ginger

Another option Dr Wright recommends are ginger capsules in a 500mg dose or drinking ginger tea to soothe your stomach which doesn’t need any further disturbance.

And there’s one other effective remedy you must add to your hangover arsenal.

Hangover remedy #3: Vitamin B

An extra dose of vitamin B-complex will help, especially if you take it well in advance of your night out and also the next morning if your energy levels are low.

Of course, the only sure way to avoid a weekend hangover is abstinence. Or at least, moderation, which is just one or two drinks over the course of your night out.