Like to smoke while you drink? You need Vitamin A. Not only does it do all sorts of healthy things like protect your lungs, nose, mouth and throat, it also helps you see in the dark and makes your bones stronger. What more could a pisspot need?

God's gift to hangovers is Vitamin B1 (Thiamine). It calms your shaky nervous system, helps your weary body break down still-lurking alcohol and has even been known to ease production of the world's worst smell, the hangover fart. So get some, then share it around. While you're there, grab some Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) for your bloodshot eyes, some Vitamin B3 (Niacin) to break down the 3am pizza, some Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) for your cramping calves and some Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) to get your blood pumping.

Vitamin C is so legendary that an American doctor once offered to be infected with HIV just to prove that Vitamin C would cure it. Naturally, we think he's an idiot, but we have learned that Vitamin C can help prevent a hangover turning into a long term health problem. How? Put simply, it prevents the bad stuff in cigarettes, alcohol and even hamburger grease from turning into cancer causing oxidants. In fact, according to two times Nobel prize winning chemist Linus Pauling, it can decrease the risk of getting certain cancers by 75%. It even tastes good.

Vitamin D helps heal that bone you broke proving you can ride a skateboard after 12 drinks (even though you couldn't before 12 drinks). Also good for your shaky nervous system.

Apply Vitamin E orally to help supply oxygen to the blood. Apply to skin after you pass out in the sun and turn a deep, painful shade of red.

Folic Acid. No major impact on hangovers but it will stop your hair going grey. And that's good if you want to get lucky.

Ginko Biloba. It works on Alzheimer's so it's got to do something for hangovers. Also increases mental ability and performance. Might even help you remember the name of that person you woke up with.

Histidine. More an amino acid than a vitamin. Has no relevance to hangovers but we needed something to fill the letter H.

Iron Tablets strengthen limp muscles and pump cool, fresh oxygen into your blood. Essential for females to keep up drinking strength in the more lethargic time of the month.

You'd think a thing called Joint Herb would be perfect for hangovers. Well it's not, except as comic relief when your friends try and smoke it.

Korean Ginseng was first written up around 100AD as a remedy for "quieting the spirit, curbing the emotion, stopping agitation, removing noxious influence, brightening the eyes, enlightening the mind and increasing wisdom. Continuous use leads one to longevity with light weight." Bring it on.

Apparently the herb Lobelia was used by doctors in 1800s North America as a potent pain reliever. But too much can make you vomit, if you haven't already.


Multivitamin OK, OK, not so much a vitamin as a whole bunch of them stuffed into one little pill. Much easier to swallow than 25 little pills. If you want a real M try Milk Thistle before you go out. We're told it's like iron plating for your liver.

Niacin. Helps break down pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs, meat pies, chicken wings, hot chips, thickshakes and other sponge food. Also known as Vitamin B3.

Orgasm. It's not a vitamin. It's better. Works on every part of your body. Have one today.

Papaya Enzyme. Good for digestion. And indigestion.

Quercetin. Nothing to do with hangovers at all but did you know it's the only vitamin that starts with the letter Q?

Royal Jelly is world renowned for giving the energy of youth and bees swear by it. Contains all the B complex vitamins. Wash it down with a bucket of water for instant satisfaction.

Starflower to hippies, Evening Primrose Oil to everyone else, this quasivitamin thins the blood and dilates the vessels thus easing the heavy thumping in your forehead.

Thiamine. See Vitamin B1. It's worth reading again.

U stands for "We couldn't find anything starting with U that helps hangovers. So if U can please tell Us."

In the seventies it was Prince Valium, now it's Prince Valerian. Widely regarded as Mother Nature's answer to the sleeping pill and equally effective.

Wild Oats. If you're a boy, sew 'em, if you're a girl hoe 'em. There's no better way to get your body moving again than a good old fashioned romp on the oatstack. Not a vitamin, but it should be.

Whatever you do, don't call your X. He or she is bound to make your hangover worse.

From the most remote plains of Africa comes Yohimbe. Useless at curing a hangover. Potent at improving your sex drive. Great before Vitamins O and W.

Congratulations, you've done all the Vitamins. Now curl up in a dark room, with a soft pillow and enjoy the most potent vitamin of all, ZZzzz.