HANGOVERS IN IRAQ
The early civilizations in what is now Iraq provided an early description of drunkenness and also a hangover cure. “If a man has taken strong wine, his head is affected and he forgets his words and his speech becomes confused, his mind wanders and his eyes have a set expression; to cure him, take licorice, beans, oleander… to be compounded with oil and wine before the approach of the goddess Gula (sunset), and in the morning before sunrise and before anyone has kissed him, let him take it and he will recover.” The cure sounds as bad as the disease. From “Children of Dependency,” a Chicago Tribune insert, November 8, 1990
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