Hangover!

Today is Hinamatsuri= a girls day. When I was a little girl, my mom cooked special food and we would have a little home party. But today I am hung over. I went to the Japanese restaurant SORIN YU in the Aoyama area to eat NABE (hot pot) with my coworkers, we enjoyed some good Nigorizake from Hiroshima, they use Japanese sake in their hot pot sauce, ( 60% of the sauce is the sake! ), it was delicious!!  Next we went to a next Shochu bar. I drank several glasses of rice Shochu.  Anyway I got home around 4 am this morning, so now I am very sleepy and hung over. :-(

Basically alcohol changes into acetaldehyde inside the body, and this acetaldehyde is the main cause of hangover because we have to discharge it from the body. So we say drink a lot of water, then we say eating salty food is good too. Japanese noodles; Soba or ramen--nice instant ramen blog! And Miso soup is nice!  When you are hung over, what do you do? I wonder if other countries have some special or unique special way for curing hangovers that I might not know about.

Here are a few methods, which seem to be an Oriental approach. Push Pressure points. Drink Green Tea. Eat Japanese persimmon = Kaki. Eat Grate daikon (Japanese radish) ): Grate the daikon's upper part diametrically opposite of the fibers for a better taste. Grate it just before serving to avoid excessive water. But recently there are many good medicines and they work so fast.

By the way "Hangover" is called "Futsukayoi" in Japanese. Futsuka means two days, and yoi means drank. Yes very easy word to understand. Here is a lesson site where you can listen to the phrase "I won't take care of you if you have a hangover". Ah okay too late for me.

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[Wolf]

I don't go out to drink the hard stuff much anymore (past favorites include Jagermeister, rum, scotch, and vodka), but when I do, I've found nothing beats a Bloody Mary mixed with Tabasco sauce for a bad hangover. As we say here, "Some of the hair of the coyote that bit you." Repeat as needed.

If my stomach is up for it, then it's either International House of Pancakes (IHOP for short) if I am home, or the nearest Denny's I can find if I wake up somewhere else. I order orange juice, coffee in small quantities, an omlette with ham and all the veggies (I put a little Tabasco on it), and a side of buttered sourdough toast.

All of this is preceeded by at least 2 ice cold glasses of water, a very hot shower, and a fresh change of clothes.

[luke]

hi there
aspirin and saltwater with lemon is the strategy in switzerland. eastereurope is a bit ruffer though. have 2 vodka shots and a beer to kill the hangover.

[AzianBrewer]

Here in Brew York , I normally drop two tabs of Advil and rest.

[Mari]

Hi johannes

Yeah, it will work. It sounds to make my stmach fresh.

[johannes]

hello mari!
in germany people eat rollmops.

thats pickeled fish with a tiny bit of cucumber inside.
its sour and salty. if helps?
is very popular : D

[Mari]

Hi Andrea
Oh really I take VitaminC everyday as a health geek, I can not miss it :-).

Hi Gwen
Ah yes, it has not set as our national holiday, I heard gay people celebrate as a joke.

Hi Charles
Hmm breathe deeply and get some oxygen in your system. Interesting. Since Japanese are not so nervous for drank outside, in public. The problem is I can remember this methon when I drank....

Hi Ivan
Sounds like, take a fat and salt. It would be good if I can eat.

Hi abraxis
Pocali Sweat! that works very well. I agree.

[Andrea Raviglione]

vitamin C pills are very good for hangover: a good friend who studied chemistry suggested that to me (more in need than him..). take 3-4 pills the day after! it works.. also against flu! :)

[Gwen]

Ha ha ... I was playing Final Fantasy XI and they are celebrating hina maturi also ^^ And someone said 3/3 is for girls, 5/5 is kodomo no hi for boys, and then .... 4/4 is for ... gay? That was so funny I thought ^^

[Charles]

A long time ago, a friend of mine got ahold of a book about "The Drinking Diet" which claimed to show how you could drink a LOT and not get a hangover. So we decided to test it. The trick is, you have to deal with your hangover the night BEFORE you get it, while you're drinking. Here's how the process worked.
Start the night with large doses of Vitamin B12 and B Complex. Drink what you want (except gin), drink as much as you want, but don't mix drinks, pick one drink and stick with it. Breathe pure oxygen if you have access to a tank of it. Before sleeping, drink extra water and eat some food with high carbohydrates and fat (a bologna sandwich, for example).
I was surprised, it really worked! I never drank so much in my life and I never suffered a bit. But the oxygen tank was a bit of trouble. I think the basic plan is to take supplements that aid the liver in breaking down alcohol, which includes oxygen, vitamins, nutrients, and water. I've never done that full regimen again, but I did learn one valuable lesson: if you're getting too drunk, breathe deeply and get some oxygen in your system, it helps a lot.

[Ivan]

In Mexico we eat chilaquiles when we have a hangover. They are made with tortillas, cheese, tomato and chili.

[abraxis]

Reminds me of the last time I was toasted in Tokyo (hey, sounds like new blog title!).

It started out with food. Then to an izakaya where there was food and drink. Then to another bar where there was just drink. And that kept on going until JR started up again later that morning.

Hangover cures are tough. But I've found some combination of burnt toast, greasy food and either Pocari Sweat, Gatorade and black coffee helps take some of the edge off of that.

In the US, we call that cure "Denny's". =)