I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.
What sort of tricks do you folks have?
I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.
What sort of tricks do you folks have?
Say this out loud:
“I am not a fish.”
Repeat as necessary.
https://www.wired.com/2008/02/evolution-expla/
I just say it in my head to myself. It has had a near 100% success rate for the past year. I don’t understand it, yet it works!
This really made my day. I’m a big fan of the ontogeny-filogeny thingy despite it often ends up disproved (e.g. recapitulation).
The other interesting theory, and the one I knew, was as a mechanism to empty air from the stomach, aiding milk consumption in mammals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504071/
I preferred yours.