Top hangover cures?

[Cymric]

5. Do not drink booze in copious quantities in the first place. 100% satisfaction guaranteed.

6. But if you are drinking too heavily: before you go to bed, drink lots of water. If you get up in the middle of the night, drink more. The hangover is mostly caused by dehydration, and this mitigates the headache/dead-horse-in-mouth effect to a great extent.

[Cymric]

KennyR wrote:
Yep, hangovers are partly caused by toxins produced by the breakdown of alcohols in the liver. Ethanol is a poison, most people don't seem to realise that.

Since you are a chemist, consider the following: ethanol is readily transformed into ethanal, which is the nasty chemical your body doesn't respond well to---and also causes hangover symptoms. (I was taught however that dehydration is the main cause of heangovers.) Ethanal is catalytically broken down by means of a copper-containing peptide. Imagine what would happen if you fed a heavy drinker a small dose of a very strongly copper-complexing compound, say EDTA or a derivative.