If you have frequent hiccups, learn these methods to stop them quickly

Frequent hiccups are very uncomfortable. Hiccups can cause people to inhale a lot of air, causing abdominal distension, and the gastrointestinal tract will reflex, causing vomiting. The reasons for hiccups are different for each person, but some people occasionally hiccup after laughing or inhaling air. At this time, you can use a few simple methods to relieve the symptoms.

How many types of hiccups are there?

The reasons for hiccups are different for everyone. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hiccups are caused by stomach discomfort, slow gastrointestinal motility, excess stomach fat, and weak spleen and stomach leading to upward flow of stomach qi. Therefore, to relieve the symptoms of hiccups, it is necessary to unblock the stomach qi and let the upward stomach qi go downward.

1. Hiccups caused by cold stagnation in the stomach: The hiccups are slow and continuous, with white tongue coating and slow pulse.

2. Hiccups caused by Qi reversal and phlegm obstruction: hiccups with phlegm sound, chest and flank distension and fullness, or nausea and poor appetite, greasy tongue coating, and a stringy and slippery pulse.

3. Hiccups due to insufficient stomach yin: short and discontinuous hiccups, dry tongue, thirst, poor appetite and dry stools, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse.

4. Hiccups due to spleen and stomach yang deficiency: muffled belching, discontinuous breathing, pale face and cold limbs, pale tongue and weak pulse.

5. Stomach fire reflux type hiccups: Loud hiccups, thirst, difficulty in defecation, bad breath, preference for cold drinks, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

1. Drinking Wrongly!

If you drink a lot of beverages, or strong tea or coffee, and fill your stomach, it will dilute the digestive juices. The lower the concentration of the digestive juices, the more severe the hiccups will be. The gas in carbonated drinks fills the digestive system with excess air, which causes burping.

2. Eating Wrongly!

Eating too quickly causes you to inhale a lot of air. It should be eaten in small pieces and chewed slowly.

3. Others

Drugs, general paralysis, post-surgery, mental factors, inner ear and prostate diseases can cause hiccups. For example, when taking medicine: aspirin, carbon dioxide gas will emerge when it is dissolved in water. This carbonic acid gas can cause burping.

There are so many ways to stop hiccups!

Diet therapy to stop hiccups

1. Chew ginger slices.

2. Wash the raw leeks, squeeze out the juice and drink it orally.

3. When an attack occurs, take 10 to 20 ml of rice vinegar, which usually takes effect immediately.

4. Chestnut, Poria, Jujube Porridge

10 chestnuts and 10 dates each, 15 grams of Poria cocos, and 50 grams of rice.

Grind the Poria cocos into fine powder and remove the core of the jujube. Boil the rice, add jujube, poria cocos, chestnuts, etc., cook until the porridge is cooked and then eat.

Acupuncture points to stop hiccups

Neiguan point: located in the middle of the forearm, 2 inches above the transverse wrist crease

Shaoshang point: radial side of the base of the thumb nail, about 0.6 cm from the edge of the nail