The pronouncement came about after a case was landed before judges in Frankfurt when plaintiffs claimed a firm offering anti-hangover “shots” and drink powders to mix with water was making illegal health claims. The ruling from the superior regional court read that ”information about a food product cannot ascribe any properties for preventing, treating or healing a human illness or give the impression of such a property,” the sober. A statement from the superior regional court read: “By an illness, one should understand even small or temporary disruptions to the normal state or normal activity of the body, including the tiredness, nausea and headaches.”
The company claimed its product could alleviate these symptoms.
Doctors have long since coined the word “veisalgia” as a specialist medical term for the morning after the night before, the judges noted.
Most adults become familiar with the symptoms of veisalgia at some point, but many do not realise the larger consequences of this familiar ailment.
Medical professionals will sometimes use the word veisalgia when talking about hangover symptoms.
This is a Norwegian word that means uneasiness after debauchery.
The term hangover began to be used to describe these symptoms at the beginning of the last century.
It refers to the fact that the hangover is unfinished business from the night before.
The Oktoberfest is a symbol of celebrating Bavarian heritage and saw an estimated 7.7 million litres of beer consumed at the last count in 2013.
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However, others believe the festival began from plans drawn by sergeant Franz Baumgartner to hold horse races and a festival for a spectacle near the city of Munich.
The festival was cancelled in 1813 because of the Napoleonic Wars, but after that time, the festival grew massively.
In 1819 it was decided Oktoberfest would become an annual event.
Years later Oktoberfest was lengthened and the date was pushed forward so the festival would begin in September.
This was undertaken because the days are longer and warmer at the end of September.
There are Oktoberfest celebrations around the UK in most major towns and cities from Devon to Bristol to Maidstone and Cambridge.
But the largest Oktoberfest celebrations will be in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
London is a prime spot for celebration of Oktoberfest and this year anyone wishing to join the festivities can visit Canary Wharf during the first two weekends of October or a city centre part happening on November 15 and 16.