Friday, December 30, 2005

Hangover Remedies from the Forward Deployed

Just So You Know

Today’s Stars and Stripes includes coverage of hangover treatments sworn to by soldiers, men, women, and Germans.

Note that the first coupla people the article speaks to (and the only ones pictured if you’re reading the electronic edition) are from intelligence units.  Also note that they were found at a local bar.  This ought not surprise anyone.  Not at all.  Ah, memories.

For my part, I don’t get hangovers.  Even when I drank to excess on a regular basis, I was never hung over.  I woke up bone tired, achey, and feeling half starved, sure, but that was more likely due to the astonishing volumes of vomit, and concomitant effort to hurl same, than purely the spirits themselves.  Never a headache.  Unless I’d been cracked in the head.

Tell you what though, that one young stud swearing by a raw egg in a Bloody Mary or some such- geh.  Imaginative, but much too gross in the application.  What I have seen is medics drink all night, then instead of just crashing for an hour or two before PT, would give themselves IVs of vitamin C and sugar solutions.  They were right as rain, in a clear example of nutrition science trumping alchemy.

Does anyone else dabble in the alchemical pursuit of hangover remedy? 


Posted by GeekLethal on 12/30/05 at 10:26 AM
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