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[Hollywoodaction]

This is gonna sound so much like spam mail....

Have you ever tried that Conditon drink?

I don't usually drink enough to get a hangover, but I attended a farewell party for one of my friends, so...I woke up this morning with one of the nastiest hangover ever. I was aching all over, and the thought of eating breakfast or lunch turned my stomach. It seemed like I had a day spent in misery ahead of me.
I decided to give one a try out of desperation. The drink tasted pretty good, but I was sure I had just wasted 2000 won. To my amazement, my hangover was gone in 15 minutes.

[JongnoGuru]

Yeah, I've had CONDITION before. Never knew it to work that well or that fast. Lucky you!

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

(who said that? who do you think I'm quoting here? there are at least three possible sources I'll accept)

[Privateer]

Frank Sinatra

[JongnoGuru]

Yep, that's one of the three. Actually, I consider it to be the least likely one, but what the hell do I know? Anyway, you win!

[poker player]

I've never heard of it. Is it for sale in the corner store or in the pharmacy?

I lived in a frat my first year of U. 2 guys in meds used to give some of us they knew would not blab about it, shots of some concoction after heavy drinking bouts. It was amazing stuff worked within an hour for everyone all the time but they refused to say what it was. Best guess was it was a vitamin B bomb.

[Bob O.]

Dean Martin

[JongnoGuru]

Yes, that's another of the three. I'd like to think it was a Dino original, but that's probably not the case. The third is not someone I was even familiar with until I was looking this up, though I now consider that as-yet-unnamed source to be the most likely of all.

[seoulkitchen]

[JongnoGuru]

[schwa]

[mole]

I've been told Condition is to be consumed BEFORE a night on the town.
Still, it works for hangover time. There's another, a small can with a guy's picture on it.
5000 won, but magic.

[Hollywoodaction]

[pegpig]

Condition? Good gawd. It's utterly amazing what Koreans can sell to each other and any other suckers. If you drink that stuff before you go to bed it will also protect you from fan death and of course, cancer.

I took it once before bed after a night of drinking with a student. Didn't notice any difference. Another time the wife bought it for me when I had a hangover. My stomach did a flip and I nearly puked. I felt horrible for quite awhile.

Loads of gatorade before you hit the sack (floor) and in the morning does me wonders.

[JongnoGuru]

(I'm sure many of you know this already. I'm not claiming to be the first to have discovered it.)

The Guru's Night-Before-the-Morning-After Rule:
One aspirin tablet just before going to bed

Two might be okay, though I've found one to be sufficient. But whether you take one or two tablets, please make it Bayer Aspirin. Why Bayer? Because you're not likely to find Grandpa Headache Powder, that's why. So, for rapid headache relief before you even know you need it, take Bayer Aspirin. Bayer. It gets you moving again... pain free.

These are not frivolous claims based on mere hearsay, hunches or corporate payoffs, no, no, no. (Well... maybe an itsy bitsy corporate payoff) They're founded upon years of extensive research and personal observation, all in the interest of pure scientific knowledge for the benefit of my fellow man, with the Guru himself serving as unwilling and unpaid laboratory monkey. And here are the results of those investigations:

What taking aspirin seems to do:

It makes for real, effective, restful, quality sleep time as opposed to just "body down time", which is all I ever get when I crash right after a jag without taking aspirin. The aspirin seems to allow the body to get more out of those hours of shut-eye.

What I know taking aspirin does (and doesn't do):

Quite simply, it improves the complexion of the world the next morning, and it restores one's appetite for living. I don't wake up five or six hours later with that dreadful feeling of "WTF?? I swear I only went to sleep 15 minutes ago, yet here it is 8 o'clock already??!!" I know that many here will be only too familiar with the painful agony of that moment.

Truly wicked "mornings after" rarely come in just one flavour of discomfort, but a regular bibimbap of pain: a splitting/throbbing headache, staggering wooziness, and even nausea. If the body wants you to surrender the noxious contents of your stomach at the porcelain altar, then there's nothing aspirin nor you can do about that, nor should you try. What taking aspirin just before sleep will do is minimise or eliminate the other pains, the headache, the dizziness, the sensation that you're still drunk. Taming those pains is more than half the battle for me, and it allows me function at near-normal speed and alertness the whole day.

Related Note: It's too easy to forget to take the aspirin, especially when, as is so often the case in Korea, you hadn't planned on drinking that much. Carry a tablet with you or keep one beside the bed to help remind you. Whatever, find some way to not forget.

[Swiss James]

my hangover cure is 4 or 5 hours of self-pity and loathing, mixed with old Daily Show episodes and a few pints of tepid water.