How to Make Hangover Soup? What Not to Do After Drinking?
Orange-Flavored Hangover Soup Recipe
Main Ingredients: 200g oranges, 200g lotus seeds, 25g plums, 50g dried dates.
Seasonings: 300g white sugar, 30g white vinegar, 5g osmanthus sugar.
Distinctive Feature: Sweet and sour, refreshing taste.
Method:
1. Wash red dates, crack them with the back of a knife, remove pits, place in a small bowl, add water, and steam until tender;
2. Dice green plums;
3. Pour canned oranges and canned lotus seeds into a pot and place over heat;
4. Add green plums, red dates, white sugar, candied osmanthus, and sufficient water. Bring to a boil, then serve chilled. Food Combining Tips:
Oranges: Eating oranges with crab may cause soft abscesses. Eating with otter meat may cause nausea. Avoid consuming with betel nuts.
Recipe for Fruit-Infused Hangover Soup
Main ingredients: Hawthorn berries 100g, walnuts 15g, lotus seeds 10g, oranges 60g, dried red dates 50g.
Seasonings: Granulated sugar 50g, rock sugar 50g, white vinegar 10g, salt 2g, cornstarch 10g.
What Not to Do After Drinking?
1. Immediately going to sleep
Though those who fall asleep after drinking may seem to handle alcohol well, alcohol is metabolized by the liver. Immediate sleep slows metabolism, hindering liver processing and increasing risk of alcoholic liver disease.It's advisable to splash cold water on the face and rest sitting up for a while. If someone falls asleep after excessive drinking, wake them every two hours and have them drink plain water repeatedly until sober.
Sleeping position matters: lie on your back. Drunkenness slows nerve reactions and reduces throat muscle tone. If vomiting occurs, vomit could block the throat and enter the windpipe, posing a danger.Sleeping face-down compromises muscle tone, potentially compressing internal organs—particularly detrimental to cardiac blood supply. 2. Using Strong Tea to Sober Up While folklore suggests strong tea aids sobriety, theophylline rapidly induces diuresis. This forces undecomposed acetaldehyde into the kidneys prematurely, disrupting the natural detoxification process.Acetaldehyde is a harmful substance that strongly irritates the kidneys. Since kidneys lack detoxification capabilities, prolonged exposure increases the risk of kidney disease. Additionally, ethanol strongly stimulates the cardiovascular system, exciting the heart. For heart disease patients, drinking tea after alcohol consumption is extremely dangerous.
3. Exposure to drafts
While a cool breeze after drinking may feel refreshing and sobering, it actually accelerates heat loss. Alcohol consumption increases blood circulation and dilates subcutaneous capillaries. Exposure to drafts intensifies this heat loss, making intoxication more likely.
4. Eating Durian
In Thailand, it's explicitly prohibited to consume alcohol with durian. Durian contains high levels of sulfur compounds that weaken the activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) in the body. This enzyme is crucial for breaking down alcohol toxins. Eating durian while drinking impairs alcohol metabolism, potentially leading to alcohol poisoning and, in severe cases, life-threatening consequences.