Which foods help cure alcohol?

Drinking alcohol at the end of the year or at any time can cause stomach ulcers, cirrhosis… In addition, it also affects behavior and cognition, causing violence or traffic accidents. Therefore, the use of this drink should be limited and should not be too happily consumed continuously for many days.

Drinking alcohol and releasing alcohol concentration depends on each person’s constitution. In particular, using fruit after drinking alcohol, preferably citrus fruits, eaten directly or squeezed to drink water will help clear heat, detoxify, and detoxify alcohol. Use a fresh lemon, squeeze the juice to drink or slice thinly to eat the whole fruit. These are all fruits that contain high levels of vitamin C, helping to reduce hangovers and make the body alert again. In addition, being drunk often leads to thirst, so drinking lemon and orange juice helps quench thirst effectively.

People can drink ginger water or ginger tea to relieve hangovers. Ginger has a hot taste that makes blood vessels circulate better, thereby quickly dissolving alcohol in the body. You can add a small spoonful of honey to hot ginger water to absorb quickly and help relieve hangovers.

Besides, bread contains a large amount of carbon that acts as a filter in the body, helping to absorb all alcohol, effectively preventing drunkenness. Whole grain breads and cereals also contain a lot of vitamin B1 – which helps limit hangover symptoms.

White porridge is also a dish that is easy to prepare, easy to eat and easy to absorb, very suitable for people with hangovers. In addition, rice also contains carbon, which has the ability to absorb alcohol in wine.

You can also cure hangovers with pennywort, by using 100g of fresh pennywort, two lemons, and 1g of salt. Wash fresh pennywort, pound it, squeeze out the juice, squeeze lemon juice, mix well and add salt, drink 150-300 ml each time.

To limit the purchase of industrial alcohol, people should not buy unlabeled alcohol of unknown origin floating on the market. When drinking alcohol, you should eat well, not on an empty stomach, drink slowly to reduce irritation of the oral and gastric mucosa, allow the liver to oxidize, and eat lots of green vegetables.

Doctor Huynh Tan Vu
Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, facility 3