Hiccups:

To get rid of hiccups before calling a doctor if necessary, the following simple manoeuvres may be tried

1  Hold your breath as long as you can.

2  Slowly sip one or more glasses of water.

3  Gargle with plain water, hot or cold, for at least a minute.

4  Pull on your tongue.

5  Sneeze once or twice.  Tickle your nose with a feather or a thin grass twig or grass itself to induce sneeze.

6  Breathe into a paper or plastic bag for at least 2 minutes.  The purpose of this is tore-breathe again the carbon dioxide gas

your  lungs normally exhale.  This stimulates the breathing centre in the brain.

7  Give a mild temporary shock to the patient by a bluff of imaginary accident   somewhere  or a concocted  accusation against him  or the like.  The patient will temporarily hold his breath suddenly and the hiccups will vanish for good.

Persistent and Chronic Hiccups

To cure persistent hiccups burn the “tuft” (top fibre) of a coconut, dissolve the resultant ash in water and when the ash sediment has settled at the bottom, remove the top clear liquid and drink it.

1 Get  the buds of pomegranate plant,  a few tulasi leaves, and a little garike grass-(kadke) and grind them together.  Tie this paste in a cloth and squeeze 3 - 4 drops of this juice into the nostrils of the patient.  Any type of hiccup will be cured.

Persistent hiccups can be cured by drinking the juice of ten leaves of  pineapple  sweetened by sugar.   OR,  powdered mustard may be mixed with ghee and chewed in little by little.