If you wake up with a headache dizziness, fatigue, and nausea the morning after a good party the night before, chances are you remember exactly what caused those symptoms, because they’re familiar: You have a hangover. Today, we’re gonna look at briefly what causes the hangover, and how you can remedy it!

With the weather warming up and many of us are going to outside events, it’s possible that you may experience a hangover if you’re drinking too much. Generally, the more you weigh, the more you can drink without getting a hangover. Also, if you drink regularly, your production of the enzymes that metabolize alcohol increases and so does your tolerance.

When you drink, the alcohol is metabolized in your liver. There, it forms toxic byproducts, which then circulate through the body, causing the pain that you feel as a hangover. The kidneys filter these waste products of alcohol out of the blood, but they must remove water while they’re doing it. That causes dehydration, one of the major hangover symptoms.

Your body also uses many vitamins and nutrients to break down alcohol, especially the B vitamins. This results in a slight state of malnutrition that can worsen if your occasions for indulging occur every weekend—a good reason to make extra sure to take your vitamins during or before partying. Eating lots of sugar can make a hangover worse, as can mixing different types of alcohol; both of these actions make the liver work harder.

Generally speaking, light-colored alcoholic beverages, such as white wine or vodka, are less likely to produce a hangover than, say, red wine or scotch.

If you are planning a night out or a celebration where you know you will be drinking:

This remedy yields for 1 cup of hot water. If you need to make more, double the recipe for extra cups.

Ingredients:

Instructions:

Steep mixture in 1 cup of hot water for 10 to 15 minutes). 

Drink 1 to 3 cups of tea on the day of the hangover.

Hopefully this helps those nasty hangovers!