{"id":1270,"date":"2026-01-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:00:21","slug":"december-30th-hangover-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/december-30th-hangover-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangover Cures &#038; Bacchus  &#8211; January 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dionysus-mithraium-london-mol-photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dionysus-mithraium-london-mol-photo.png 588w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dionysus-mithraium-london-mol-photo-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marble statue of Bacchus from the Temple of Mithras London. The inscription reads &#8216;hominibus vagis vitam&#8217; Translation \u2026 (give) life to men who wander. Bacchus is in the middle, the little old man on the left is Silenus.  The drunken tutor to Bacchus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On the eighth day of Christmas<br>my true love sent to me:<br>8 Maids a Milking; 7 Swans a Swimming; 6 Geese a Laying<br>5 Golden Rings<br>4 Calling Birds; 3 French Hens; 2 Turtle Doves<br>and a Partridge in a Pear Tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Closing Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The 8th day, New Years Day,  is the day of the Throbbing Head. In &#8216;Closing Time&#8217; Leonard Cohen wrote about drinking to excess. I like to think he refers to Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<em>And the whole damn place goes crazy twice<br>And it&#8217;s once for the devil and it&#8217;s once for Christ<br>But the boss don&#8217;t like these dizzy heights<br>We&#8217;re busted in the blinding lights of closing time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-0lV5qs1Qw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trouble is the song mentions summer.  Oh well. You can enjoy the official video on YouTube below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hangover Cure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What you need is a hangover cure. Nature provides many plants that can soothe headaches. And in the midst of the season of excess, let&#8217;s start with a hangover cure.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2493\" style=\"width:404px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Common-ivy-Photo-by-Zuriel-Galindo-from-unsplash-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Common ivy Photo by Zuriel Galindo from unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ivy and Bacchus<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivy, &#8216;is a plant of Bacchus&#8217;\u2026. &#8216;the berries taken before one be set to drink hard, preserve from drunkenness\u2026. and if one hath got a surfeit by drinking of wine, the speediest cure is to drink a draft of the same wine, wherein a handful of ivy leaves (being first bruised) have been boiled.&#8217;<\/p>\n<cite>Culpeper Herbal 1653 quoted in &#8216;the Perpetual Almanac&#8217; by Charles Kightly<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacchus often wore an ivy crown around his head. Romans used Ivy to fend off hangovers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bacchus and Wine Making<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The image of Bacchus, at the top of the post, is from a fascinating<a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonmuseum.org.uk\/collections\/london-stories\/first-british-wine-made-in-north-london\/\"> article<\/a> by the Museum of London on wine making in Roman Britain. It suggests wine in Britain was first made in Brockley Hill, in South East London as little as 20 or 30 years after the Roman Conquest of AD43.   The evidence was the discovery of Roman Wine Amphora made locally. This is taken as evidence that the amphorae were made to contain local wine.  Direct evidence of a vineyard has been found in Northamptonshire but fron the 2nd Century AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacchus is the Roman version of the God Dionysus who was the God of &#8216;wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festivity\">festivity<\/a>, insanity, ritual madness, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_ecstasy\">religious ecstasy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theatre\">theatre<\/a>.&#8217; Essentially anything that could make you loss your head, and escape your inhibitions.  But he could also relieve pain, reduce anxiety, free you from subjugation and therefore he was subversive. The Roman State suppressed and regulated the Bacchanalian Festivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Skullache, and Willow, <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mrst_oxford_canal-aug-2021_20-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crack Willow Trees on the Oxford Canal, August 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if that gives you a headache, one of the best documented folk hangover cures is willow bark, useful for headaches, earaches, and toothaches. Here is a record of how simple it was to use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8216;I am nearly 70 years old and was born and bred in Norfolk&#8230; My father, if he had a &#8216;skullache&#8217; as he called it, would often chew a new growth willow twig, like a cigarette in the mouth.&#8217;<\/p>\n<cite> &#8216;A Dictionary of Plant Lore by Roy Vickery (Pg 401)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 19th Century, they discovered that Willow contained salicylic aciacid, from which aspirin was derived. As a child, I remember chewing liquorice sticks in a similar way. We chewed, supposedly for the pleasure and the sweetness, not for the medicinal virtues of the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Country Weather<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>January 1st&#8217;s weather on the 8th Day of Christmas was cold, but bright in the morning, a little bit of rain at lunch time, and a dry but cloudy afternoon. So, according to Gervase Markham, the 8th Month, August, will be sunny to begin with, with some rain in the middle, and cloudy end of the month.  (source: \u2018The English Husbandman&#8217; of 1635.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On this Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, is the Day the Nymphs in Greece dedicated to Artemis, Andromeda, Ariadne, Ceres. (according to the Goddess Book of Days by Diane Stein.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>First Published in 2024, republished in 2025, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eighth day of Christmasmy true love sent to me:8 Maids a Milking; 7 Swans a Swimming; 6 Geese a Laying5 Golden Rings4 Calling Birds; 3 French Hens; 2 Turtle Dovesand a Partridge in a Pear Tree Closing Time The 8th day, New Years Day, is the day of the Throbbing Head. In &#8216;Closing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/december-30th-hangover-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hangover Cures &#038; Bacchus  &#8211; January 1st&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120,112,146,116,377,321,298,115,333,7,252,393,412,4,98,16,375,185,14,712,12,322,9],"tags":[444,1237,445,1236,1235,411,1942,1941,122],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-ancient-history","category-calendar","category-classical","category-europe","category-farming-history","category-folklore","category-food-history","category-georgian","category-greece","category-greek","category-italy","category-london","category-medical-history","category-modern","category-mythology","category-nature","category-roman","category-science","category-tudor-stuart","category-uk","category-victorian","tag-bacchus","tag-culpepper","tag-dionysius","tag-hangover-cures","tag-hangovers","tag-ivy","tag-skullache","tag-willow","tag-willow-bark-as-a-cure-for-headaches"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hangover Cures &amp; Bacchus - January 1st - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A look at hangover cures and headaches through time. 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