Drink Ease

Drink Ease is an effective remedy to help counter the unpleasant after-effects of alcohol consumption. Employing a combination of safe homeopathic ingredients, it helps the body combat the symptoms generally known as "hangover", including headache, indigestion, nausea and dizziness.

Hangovers are not due solely to the amount of alcohol consumed. Other factors such as the type and quality of the alcoholic beverage are significant. It is also important to take food with alcohol, and the after-effects can be greatly ameliorated by drinking water both during and after alcohol consumption.

Drink Ease does not directly neutralize the chemical effects of alcohol, but stimulates the body's own natural processes to deal more quickly and efficiently with its poisoning effects. Drink Ease has no harmful side-effects.

What causes hangovers?

Dehydration

Alcohol is a diuretic, ie a drug that increases urination and flushes fluids from the body. Drinking coffee the next morning only increases this problem as coffee is also a diuretic.

Mild poisons in the drink

Complex organic molecules such as methanol and acetone are found in some drinks and are said to be responsible for hangovers rather than ethanol(alcohol). This view is by researcher Dr Ian Calder of the London based National Hospital for Neurosurgey.

Which Alcohol is worse?

Brandy is worst for hangovers then in descending order are: red wine, rum, whisky, white wine, gin and vodka. The British Medical Journal did tests that showed drinking bourbon whiskey is twice as likely to cause a hangover than the same amount of vodka.

Too much alcohol

Too much alcohol depletes the body of necessary substances required to stay healthy, these include blood sugar, vitamins and minerals.

Wine - a bad harvest

If you are drinking wine that comes from a country where a small change in the climate can make a big difference to the quality of wine, eg France, Germany, New Zealand, then in a bad season the wine contains many more substances that cause hangovers.

Wine - drinking it too young

Almost all red wines and chardonnay are matured in oak barrels so that they will keep and improve. If you drink this wine younger than three years there will be a higher level of nasties that can cause hangovers. If left to mature these nasties change to neutral substances and don't cause hangovers. As a rule of thumb wine stored in oak barrels for six months should be acceptable to drink within the first year. If the wine is stored for twelve months or more in oak barrels it should then be left for at least four years. Some winemakers have been known to add oak chips directly into the wine to enhance flavours, especially in a bad season, and this can take years to become neutral.