Home Remedies for Hiccups

Hiccups refer to the involuntary contractions in the diaphragm muscles. It separates the chest from the stomach and helps in breathing. Irritation in the nerves of the diaphragm makes the breath to move in a jerky way that produces a different sound termed as hiccups.

Causes of Hiccups

The exact cause of hiccups is not known but some believed causes are:

Eating too much and too fast
Sudden excitement
Hot and spicy foods
Stomach disorders
Kidney problems
Infection in lungs

It’s an old belief that holding the breath will stop the hiccups.

Drinking water frequently in short durations is also helpful.

Eating a spoonful of peanut butter stops hiccups quickly and is one of the effective home remedies for hiccups.

Taking deep breaths will also cure hiccups.

Gargling with water is also considered effective. Good Home Remedy for Hiccups.

Slowly sucking a tablespoon of sugar will give immediate relief.

Diverting the mind to some other thought will cure hiccups.

Make a mixture by adding 2 tsp of common salt in a cup of plain yogurt and eat it slowly. This is very effective home remedy for hiccups.

Eating a bowl full of yogurt with a pinch of salt is also a good remedy.

Boil 1/2 tsp of cardamom fresh powder in 2 cup water, sieve it and drink a glassful of this warm water to stop hiccups. This is a very good home remedy for hiccups.

Sucking crushed ice provides immediate relief from irritating hiccups.

In case if children eating a teaspoon of peanut butter will immediately stop the hiccups.

Tickling the throat with a cotton swab is also effective. This is another good home remedy for hiccups.

Sucking small piece of ginger will also cure recurring hiccups.

Keeping an ice bag on the diaphragm is also effective.

Mix 1/2 tsp mustard seeds with 1/2 tsp of pure ghee and swallow this mixture. It will stop hiccups quickly. This hiccups remedy is one of the effective home remedies for hiccups.

Laughing loudly will soon stop the hiccups.

User Recommended Home Remedies for Hiccups:

Another interesting one is "Rectal Massage". So maybe if you stick your finger up your butt you will cure yourself. Of course, then you'll have other problems... - Leesa

Drink one ounce of white vinigar to cure Hiccups - Elisa

Drink some water from the other side of the cup(the far side), so that your basically sort of drinking upside down(the water is actually being swallowed and then goes UP your throat since YOUR upside down!) Somehow the forcing of the water UP kills Hiccups! - Justyn

Home Remedies: sounds silly, but since I was young family told me to do this and works...
pour a glass of water, or take a water bottle easier (any liquid) close your ears with your thumbs, and lift the glass or bottle with other fingers and drink. Hiccup cure right away!!! - Alesandra from Toronto

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Home Remedies for Hiccups

For hiccups- hold breath for five seconds then drink something without letting go of breath.- after do short little breaths for about 10 seconds

#1 - Ashleigh - 08/21/2007 - 01:48

Remedy for Hiccups

I know this is strange but to rid hiccups, fill a small glass with tap water and place a paper towel over the opening of the glass. Drink all of the water through the paper towel. It always works for me! :)

#2 - Casey - 11/17/2007 - 00:16

I used to hold my breath and drink water. I read laughing out loud cured hiccups... and I laughed so hard, my hiccups disappeared. Go figure?

#3 - Kat - 11/22/2007 - 06:05

The napkin over the glass idea is good. Ive been doing it for 30 years. I try to drink as much of the glass, through the napkin as I can with one gulp. Oh yes I also dont take a breath until Im done drinking.

#4 - jamie - 12/29/2007 - 20:27

i have had the hiccups for eight years. i can not find a way to get rid of them. i am past the basic hiccups. when imove to fast, lift heavy things, lay on my sides, bend over to long i get the hiccups. even if i dont eat i get them. i have tramendous weight loss ,it causes me to spit up blood at time. i really need help to rid this thing. if any one no of any thing please let me know. i've tried everything except surgury. my email address is satallite@blackplanet.com

#5 - edgar brady - 01/31/2008 - 14:00

I was at a bar one night and had the hiccups pretty bad, the bartender gave me a slice of lime with bitters on it and told me to suck on it for a minute, sure enough that got rid of em!! Ive done this everytime I get them now, and it seems to work like a charm!!!

#6 - nic - 02/06/2008 - 16:17

This may saound hard but it can be done... Try PLUGGING YOUR EARS AND DRINKING AT THE SAME TIME... WORKS BEST IF DRINKING WATER. Not just a drink either you must drink a lot. If someone is there with you ask them to hold your ears and if not then you can simply get a straw then you can do it by yourself. TRUST ME IT WORKS i havebeen doing this since i was in 4th grade and dow my 5 yr old will tell others to do it!!!!!!

#7 - Angela - 02/19/2008 - 01:42

Drop a just lit burning match into a small glass of water. Drink water (not match...lol). Works every time.

Something about inhaling the sulphur and drinking the water simultaneously, I think.

#8 - Sure FIRE hiccup remedy - 03/06/2008 - 21:48

drinking water upside down, it works it every time.

#9 - Trixie - 03/11/2008 - 12:22

Promise this will work....put a toothpick or something of similar length long-ways inside your mouth so the ends are pushing against your cheeks, then, take about 4 or 5 chugs of water in a row...hiccups gone!

#10 - Derek - 03/26/2008 - 13:33

Several of you have mentioned to plug the ears while drinking. I do this also, and it works. You must plug the ears completely, and drink an entire glass of water very slowly. It's true!!

#11 - Wendy - 04/24/2008 - 01:33

Drink a few tablespoons of dill pickle juice. I've been doing this for 20 years, and it works. I think it's the vinegar. I've heard that some athletes use dill pickle juice for uncontrollable muscle spasms in other parts of the body.

#12 - Pickle Lady - 05/06/2008 - 11:56

I get the hiccups constantly....not dainty ladylike little hics but loud and embarrassing cases that sound like *HILK* or *HIC-CULLP* Of all the home remedies peanut butter or sugar is the only cure that sometimes work but not guaranteed....otherwise mine just have to run their course.

#13 - Suzanne - 05/21/2008 - 20:16

I take a glass of water and put a napkin over the glass and drink very slowly trying not to break the napkin as it gets wet!!!! It sounds silly but I swear it works every time!!!!!

#14 - Sarah - 06/08/2008 - 16:51

i swear this works. Jus drink the water while lying down on your back

#15 - Cynkie - 06/10/2008 - 04:35

drink a glass of milk

#16 - carlos - 06/11/2008 - 21:12

I have to say. I closed both my ears with ear plugs and drank a glass of water slowly (sips) with a paper towel over the glass. It worked, I can't believe it. And it was only after a couple sips that they went away. I had the hiccups twice today, I wish I knew this trick earlier.

#17 - Stacey - 06/22/2008 - 21:05

I had a hiccup that seemed it took for ever and I tried eating Edys Chocolate Ice and it realy worked .

Eat a full bowl of it .

#18 - Thomas - 07/03/2008 - 20:28