After a whole night of revelries, vacations on a cruise ship or just hanging around and drinking, a hangover is sure to be your most trusted friend the next morning you wake up and still remain loyal to you for couple of days. A hangover can cause migraines, stomach upsets, fatigue and weakness and loss of appetite sometimes.
It can also leave you with all the symptoms associated with dehydration. While there are a thousand and one tips and tales for managing hangovers, complementary treatment offers a few gifts from Mother Nature that can save you the inconvenience of looking for medical treatments for hangovers. The following are herbal hangover cures that you can consider anytime you have a chronic hangover.
Evening primrose is one of the best herbal hangover cures. It has been used for centuries to reduce liver and stomach pains and discomforts. Note that each time you have a hangover your liver is being overworked. Evening primrose can aid your liver to make its functions much easier and efficient when it has an overload.
Peppermint is also a good herbal cure for hangovers. It can naturally soothe your stomach and relive you of hangovers. Since the stomach normally slows down after a night of drinking, peppermint tea can keep things in balance and help your stomach to keep everything under control. Just a cup or two of peppermint tea should be able to get rid of your hangover.
If your hangover is accompanied by nausea, use century leaf. It is one of the natural herbs that nature has provided for soothing and calming down nerves. It is also great for stomach problems that can be caused by heavy drinking especially if you dared to do the bottles on an empty stomach. Just throw one or two century leaves in your tea or boil them and drink it up. You should be able to feel relived immediately after swallowing the concoction.
While ginger may sound strange to some as a herbal cure for hangovers, it actually works well for two things. It can calm down the nerves and rid of stomach upsets. The good thing about using ginger as herbal cure for hangover is the fact that you do not need to go for the real deal and deal with ginger itself. But if you can, then that would be much better. Just get any ginger based snack and use it to get rid of hangovers.
Then remember that you will need to restore your energy after a hangover. Brew up some cool and refreshing tea with thyme leaves then sip it with one or two drops off honey. The tea is good for hangovers as to reduce tension and tires muscles. You can also add glucose to the tea instead of honey to double the effect of the tea.
Use carrot juice to detoxify your liver and drink lots of water during the day as carrot juice is diuretic. Wild carrot juice is good as it has the ability to detoxify and cleanse an overworked liver. Avoid taking hot baths at all costs when you have hangovers. Steam baths and saunas should also be avoided. Just take cold showers to feel better.
