Deep-Fried Canary: Top Hangover Cure?

A hangover is the morning-after 'reminder' of a night spent absorbing a little too much good cheer. With the morning comes pain as your shrunken brain alerts you to your body’s dehydration, nutrient deficiency and the curious beer coaster stuck on your forehead. What do you do? How do you cure your hangover?

If the old stand-by remedies like Vegemite on toast don't take your fancy, we’ve riffled through the history books, crossed cultures and polished up a few old wives’ tales to find some alternative hangover soothers to put your mind (and body) at ease.

Earning their label of History's Bizarre Hangover Remedies are gems including deep-fried canaries (Ancient Rome), dried eel and bitter almonds (Middle Ages), and rabbit-poo tea (Wild West) ... Mmmmmm. Read more about these and other wacky hangover cures. Of course, if you find it hard to get hold of a couple of dried eels there are plenty of Not-So-Bizarre Hangover Remedies to put in the memory banks, such as the Prairie Oyster, Berocca or the 3am kebab sure-fire fix ... the kebab may also taste slightly better than rabbit-poo tea.

Kelly Ford, Citysearch