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Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts

Posted by samzenpus on from the adjusting-your-humors dept.

An anonymous reader writes with good news for people looking for an old cure for an old problem. Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus. The "drunken headache cure" appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Housed at Oxford University's Sackler Library, the enormous collection of texts contains lost gospels, works by Sophocles and other Greek authors, public and personal records and medical treatises dating from the first century AD to the sixth century A.D.

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  1. Ancient, Greek, Hangover cure? Go Takahashi! by spiritplumber · · Score: 3, Informative
    "This is trichloromethylene, it will counteract the effects of alcohol"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    1. Re:Ancient, Greek, Hangover cure? Go Takahashi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Before anyone asks, Trichloromethylene does not exist. It is the 555 phone number of chemical compounds.