Remedy for hangover and digestive disorders caused by drunkenness

The body is often tired, bloated and has indigestion after a night of drinking. First, you can drink tea mixed with rock sugar or fresh tea to sober up, then boil dried coptis and fresh bitter leaf to get the water to drink.

According to physician Nguyen Duc Nghia, Ho Chi Minh City Medicinal Herbs Association, there are common foods that people can easily use to sober up such as:

- Tea mixed with rock sugar or lung sugar, drinking 1-2 warm teas helps to sober up effectively and warm the stomach.

- Quickly sober up with tea leaves: Fresh tea contains many phenols, caffeine, amino acids... which help stimulate the central nervous system, thereby improving the liver's metabolism. Therefore, fresh tea has the effect of faking alcohol, helping drunk people sober up quickly.

- Sober up with lemon or ginger tea: cut a few slices of lemon and mix with water or use crushed fresh ginger and mix with water and a little green tea, the hangover will pass quickly.

- Cook green beans with the skin on, get 2-3 cups of water and drink to help you wake up quickly and cool down effectively.

Some common foods such as lemon, ginger, and green beans can help drunk people sober up quickly. Photo: Corbis.

In addition, some unpleasant symptoms of a drunk person after waking up one night are lethargy, fatigue, phlegm in the throat, and burning thirst. According to physician Nghia, more serious are digestive disorders that make many people unable to work, have to go to the toilet 3-7 times in a row, have a burning stomach, bloating, and burning anus. With the above digestive disorders, according to Oriental medicine, there is a simple remedy that is effective, including coptis chinensis and gentian root.

- Coptis chinensis, scientific name Rhizoma Coptidis, is a medicinal herb that stabilizes intestinal enzymes, effectively clears heat, and reduces symptoms of indigestion and bloating.

- Bitter leaf, scientific name is Cronton tonkinensis Gagnep, the leaves have a bitter, slightly sweet, slightly astringent taste, cool or neutral properties, have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, and disinfecting. Using bitter leaf effectively reduces stomach pain.

A simple remedy includes: 10g dried coptis chinensis and 3g fresh bitter leaf, boil to get water to drink, it has quick effect, can drink 2-3 more times a day to restore the digestive tract.

According to VnExpress