A Cure for Hiccups

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A Cure for Hiccups

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You're not going to believe this, but even at the risk of bending the

Medical Practice Act, I just had to include it. I got this hiccup

(“hiccoughâ€,

for you proper folks) cure from my outlaws, er.., inlaws, and it is as

effective in practice as it is ridiculous in description.

To cure ordinary hiccups, you do the following: Drink out of the far-side

rim of a glass. It may also be described as " drink out of a glass upside

down,'' although you aren't really upside down. It looks weird enough when you

try it.

My experience has been that it takes a full cup of water and about thirty

seconds of this type of sipping for the hiccup reflex to cease. It has never

failed me. Since I wanted you to gain all possible practical benefit from

this book, I couldn't resist mentioning it. (Mag. Phos. 6x, a Schuessler Cell

Salt in homeopathic potency, is also effective against hiccups as reported in

Dr. Schuessler's Biochemistry, by J.B. Chapman, M.D.)

A probable explanation for the success of the drinking

out-of-the-other-side-of-a-glass technique is that your bending-over posture

and your

concentration on performing such an unusual feat serves to restrict the

spasmodic

inhalation characteristic of hiccups. The act of drinking itself might create

new

nerve messages to displace the hiccup reflex, calming the glottis and

diaphragm. At any rate, it works.

Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul. From the books DOCTOR

YOURSELF and FIRE YOUR DOCTOR, available from Andrew Saul, 23 Greenridge

Crescent, Hamlin, NY 14464.