Hangover? Try 2 eels with wine

The French call it "la gueule de bois" or wooden mouth. For Germans, it's "Kater" or a tomcat. Japanese know it as "futsukayoi" or "two-days drunk."

But whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness, dry mouth... the list of evils is long.

Just as lengthy is the roster of remedies for alcohol abuse that have been touted over the centuries.