A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine. Grown in ...

Good news for anyone who has ever had that queasy feeling the morning after tying one on: A study has found that an extract of prickly pear cactus can prevent a severe hangover. Prickly pear cactus ...

Soothing teas, fizzy drinks and little pills all claim to fix what ails you after a night of heavy drinking. But Dr. Jeffrey Wiese, who last week reported that prickly pear cactus could reduce some ...

Imbibe too much? Hair of the dog will only make you feel worse. Try skin of prickly pear cactus instead. A study out last week found that an extract from the hardy plant, found in a few dietary ...

(National) June 28, 2004 - A bit of cactus before a night of overindulgence may help ward off some of the hurt the morning after. That's the finding of new research that suggests a supplement ...

It seems appropriate somehow that a possible remedy for hangovers was tested at a New Orleans university -- and apparently found to work. The result was a story the media found -- err -- intoxicating.

The fight against the debilitating effects of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases may have just gotten a new weapon from both a land-based and sea-based plant in the Mediterranean basin. Researchers ...

It can sometimes be tough to find prickly pear in traditional grocery stores, but there's one sure way of getting your hands on the fruit: Steaz Prickly Pear Water, the buzziest functional beverage of ...

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Prickly pear fruit (and pads) is just one of many wild desert foods long used by Indigenous people. If you are harvesting prickly pear fruit this year, do so with respect, leaving fruit on the cactus ...