Hair of the dog
Hair of the dog
Does having a shot of what you were drinking the night before actually cure a hangover & why is it called hair of the dog?
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Hair of the dog
buttercup;665356 wrote: Does having a shot of what you were drinking the night before actually cure a hangover & why is it called hair of the dog?
no it's tosh.
it's ment 2 say what makes ya feel crap will bring ya out again.
no it's tosh.
it's ment 2 say what makes ya feel crap will bring ya out again.
Hair of the dog
Regarding the cure, its basis is the principle of homeopathy.The cure of disease is effected by drugs that are capable of producing in a healthy individual symptoms similar to those of the disease to be treated, and that to ascertain the curative virtues of any drug it must be "proved" upon healthy persons - that is, taken by individuals of both sexes in a state of health in gradually increasing doses.
(Britannica)
Only certain branches of homeopathy employ dilution and potentiation of the drug. The essence of the technique is the similarity rule.
As for the expression, it's named from a folk cure for rabies which involves applying the hair of the dog that bit you to the bite. It's extended to the hangover cure by the equivalence of the technique. Nothing to do with similarities there.
Would anyone like Plutarch's cure for jaundice posting?
(Britannica)
Only certain branches of homeopathy employ dilution and potentiation of the drug. The essence of the technique is the similarity rule.
As for the expression, it's named from a folk cure for rabies which involves applying the hair of the dog that bit you to the bite. It's extended to the hangover cure by the equivalence of the technique. Nothing to do with similarities there.
Would anyone like Plutarch's cure for jaundice posting?
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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Hair of the dog
Would anyone like Plutarch's cure for jaundice posting?
Yes please. Nothing like a good jaundice posting on a Sunday morning to go with your coffee and crumpets. :-6
Yes please. Nothing like a good jaundice posting on a Sunday morning to go with your coffee and crumpets. :-6
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Hair of the dog
Nomad;665425 wrote: Yes please. Nothing like a good jaundice posting on a Sunday morning to go with your coffee and crumpets. :-6The ancients held that if a person suffering from jaundice looked sharply at a stone-curlew, and the bird looked steadily at him, he was cured of the disease. "Such is the nature," says Plutarch, "and such the temperament of the creature that it draws out and receives the malady which issues, like a stream, through the eyesight." So well recognised among birdfanciers was this valuable property of the stone-curlew that when they had one of these birds for sale they kept it carefully covered, lest a jaundiced person should look at it and be cured for nothing. The virtue of the bird lay not in its colour but in its large golden eye, which naturally drew out the yellow jaundice.
Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
It is a passage which has often brought me pleasure through recollection, as have so many other observations from that book.
Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
It is a passage which has often brought me pleasure through recollection, as have so many other observations from that book.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Hair of the dog
It is a passage which has often brought me pleasure through recollection, as have so many other observations from that book.
Obviously this goes without saying. It too has filled my bucket with joy this morning.
Thank you spock. :-4
Obviously this goes without saying. It too has filled my bucket with joy this morning.
Thank you spock. :-4
I AM AWESOME MAN
Hair of the dog
Out of interest, why have you still got Tariq Aziz in detention? It's over four years now and he's not even been charged with anything. I'd note that, by contrast, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Minister of Information, was released within weeks of surrendering to US forces at the same time.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Hair of the dog
spot;665436 wrote: Out of interest, why have you still got Tariq Aziz in detention? It's over four years now and he's not even been charged with anything. I'd note that, by contrast, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Minister of Information, was released within weeks of surrendering to US forces at the same time.
If you dont know Im not going to tell you !
If you dont know Im not going to tell you !
I AM AWESOME MAN
Hair of the dog
Nomad;665438 wrote: If you dont know Im not going to tell you !
Parroting the official line, eh?
Parroting the official line, eh?
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.