Hungover? Take two eels and call me in the morning

[snopes]

he French call it "la gueule de bois," or wooden mouth. For Germans, it's "Kater," or a tomcat. Japanese know it as "futsukayoi," or "two-days drunk."

But whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness, dry mouth... the list of evils is long.

Just as lengthy is the roster of remedies for alcohol abuse that have been touted over the centuries.

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