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Originally Posted by Pixelbucks Eric
What a lot of nonsense 
Your tongue is not responsible for your hiccups.
The trick here is that you are concentrating on gripping your tongue and counting to twenty. It's a DIVERSION.
Another trick that works when somebody else has the hiccups, is to ask them what they had for dinner. Then ask them what they had for dinner yesterday, and the day before.
At some point they'll have to think hard about what they had.
Ask one more day and then ask them if they still have hiccups.
I bet you it's gone. It worked every time I tried it on somebody.
Mind you, it only works once per person, then they're on to you
It works because it's a diversion. They have to think and concentrate on something else and their breathing changes. |
Honestly you do not even need to count. I added that in there for a period of time to hold it. I will usually just tell someone to start and then stop. I am not normally typing out how to do this.
You can think it is nonsense if you wish, really do not care. Or you can go with it and figure hiccups can be caused by the phrenic nerve leading to the diaphragm and that by pulling your tongue you are effecting that nerve.