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What exactly is "hair of the dog" and how does it have anything to do with curing a hangover?

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the hair of the dog is drinking what you drank the night before, eg, if you were drinking lager last night have one this morning, i dont how it works but it does

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hair of the dog means have another drink, some people think that if it makes you bad it will make you better !!!?

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The hair of the dog that bit you is an antidote to something that is causing you discomfort. It is usually used for hangovers and old remedies for it. In fact a hangover is nothing more than that the liver is unable to cope with an excessive alcohol intake. Therefore one must help the liver to metabolize the remaining alcohol in one's body. One of the methods is to drink artichoke leaves' teas to help the liver recover. The best thing to do is not to drink so much.

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The origin of the phrase is unclear, but instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of Shakespeare. E. Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine next morning to soothe the nerves. 'If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.'" He also cites two apocryphal poems containing the phrase, one of which is attributed to Aristophanes. It is not known whether the idea of like curing like, or the practice (which may have other psychological causes) came first. Certainly it is possible that the phrase was used to justify an existing practice. It is also possible that the modern use of the phrase arose as a metaphor for that idea and did not have a former basis in practice.

The phrase is also used in a more general context to mean "a little dose of something which caused your problems in the first place," can be used to cure the problem. The phrase may have some roots in the Latin phrase "Similia similibus curantur".

The phrase also exists in Hungarian, where the literal translation to English is "(You may cure) the dog's bite with its fur", but has evolved to a short three word phrase ("Kutya harap璋﹕t sz鑹杛鑼卾el") that is used frequently in other contexts when one is trying to express that the solution to a problem is more of the problem.

The phrase refers to he fact that a hangover is sometimes seen as symptoms of withdrawal and therefore a little more will make you feel better. NOT

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It just means drinking what you got drunk on, it really doesn't help but some people think that it does.

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shortened form of the expression 閳ユ涪he hair of the dog that bit you.閳?br> Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have over-indulged, take a drink of the same alcoholiv beverage the next morning to cure the hangover.

And yes it does actually work quite well..

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I always thought it just meant you drink any sort of alcohol the next day to take care of the hangover. Personally I like popping two IB profins the previous night (if I can remember) and Gatorade the next morning.