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Hi my name is Dr. Kim Makoi, I'm a holistic chiropractor from San Francisco and this is
how you control hiccups. Hiccups are still are a bit of a medical mystery but it's largely
agreed upon now that hiccups are usually caused by swallowing too much air. This usually happens
from either eating or drinking too fast or sometimes being in a nervous state. So the
most, one of the most common ways to cure the hiccups or to stop the hiccups is to just
calm down, take a few deep breaths and hold your breath for about ten seconds. Some people
add in different rituals sipping from a glass of water while holding their breath or sipping
from the far side of a glass of water while holding their breath. Some people offer other
rituals standing on one foot, sticking a pencil into the glass of water all of these things
are basically used to help to focus the body and try and get the body to calm down and
relax a little bit. So basically slow down your eating, slow down your drinking and hold
your breath and that is how you control hiccups.