Headaches, nausea, self-loathing – hangovers are the grim by-product of a great time, described by Evelyn Waugh as characterised by “melancholy, indigestion and moral decay”.

Is there anything to be done apart from pulling down the shutters and going back to bed? There’s a long history of remedies and a thriving industry of “cures” but scientifically we’re up against a big gun.

The Telegraph London