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Over-indulgence can lead to a mind-numbing headache, nausea and all kind of agony. Before you reach for 2 painkillers, a warm bath and go back to sleep, try these.

* Tomato juice, asprin and a long, hot shower.

* Coffee made with tonic water, orange juice and honey.

* Water, water and more water.

* Buttermilk.

* A greasy fry-up

* Fried canaries - popoular with the Romans.

* Munching a cabbage - relief for the Ancient Greeks.

* Lots of icy-cold Coca Cola (not Diet Coke, full dat).

* Throwing up and getting it all out.

* Vowing never to drink again and then campaigning for prohibition to return.

Preventatives should also be noted, such as coating your stomach before drinking, with milk and/or bread and butter. But do avoid caffeine, and short-term fixes; it may work in the movies, but it's unlikely those actors are really drunk.

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