You wake up. Your throbbing head feels like someone has lodged an axe in it. Your mouth is like some arid desert and you feel like you could throw up at any moment… You shakily drag yourself out of bed in search of a miracle cure. Honestly, hangovers can literally be hell on earth and most of us have experienced a few bad ones. While we’re all pretty aware of the sensible (boring) “cures” like getting lots of rest, drinking fluids and not drinking so much alcohol to incapacitate a bear in the first place, there are a handful of more, let’s say, “out there” remedies. Here are 19 weird and wonderful cures you might want to try out the morning after the night before.

1. Drink Sprite

This elixir speeds up the breakdown of acetaldehyde, believed to be the culprit behind many of a hangover’s most wretched symptoms.