Home remedies · Sleep, nerves & head
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Water and something salty, eat slowly, sleep; with a headache do not drink more alcohol.
Alcohol dehydrates and disturbs sleep; a hangover is at its core lack of fluid and salt plus poor sleep. That is exactly what can be replaced.
No home remedy and no supplement measurably shortens a hangover — time does.
No paracetamol after a lot of alcohol — the liver is already busy. Confusion, repeated vomiting or a person who cannot be woken is an emergency.
Get seen at once: the sudden, worst headache of your life, headache with fever and a stiff neck, with weakness, speech or vision trouble. Likewise dizziness with double vision or an unsteady gait. Sleeplessness over weeks with loss of drive is something to discuss, not to endure.