QotD: Hair of the Dog

What's your favorite hangover cure? 
Submitted by Soup.

A good deal of a hangover is due to dehydration.  You expel a lot of fluid in between sucking down tons and tons of alcohol, so try not to make it a full on bender.  Don't drink so much and when you get back spend a few hours awake drinking water.  Plan on sleeping in.  You may still feel like crap due to, I dunno, binging and cheap alcohol, but this is what I usually do.  You shouldn't take motrin, tylenol, or any other pain reliever because you already are taking out your system by drowning it with alcohol.  If you wake up hours after and you're sober and hungover and have retained some water, you might be able to have one pain reliever, but don't go trying to cheat the pain -- you earned it.  Think of a hangover as a reminder that moderation is ultimately the way to go and as a reason to abstain from wrecking your system next weekend... I mean, who knows, you might end up in the hospital or morgue with alcohol poisoning instead of in bed with a hangover. Don't be a fool.