[ExI] hiccups

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't have much of a taste for hot peppers, but once I thought I would
try a habanero.  I cooked it and cut it into bits and put it on a pizza.
One bite:  I had hiccups for 24 hours.  bill

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* [ExI] hiccups
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> I had then four times today - dunno why.  Finally I went online and found
> a new remedy - or new to me:
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> Get a cloth and hold your tongue until it hurts pretty good.  Stopped the
> hiccups immediately.  Good to know.
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> bill w
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> I used to get them occasionally but they went away by themselves.  Exactly
> once in my life I had them so bad they hurt.  It went on for hours.
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> I tried all the known remedies (this was about 30 yrs ago before the
> internet was a thing.)  Finally called my mother, she said get a type of
> cocktail mixer called bitters, pour a little in a saucer, cut a lemon in
> half, put the lemon cut-side down in the bitters then suck the lemon.
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> I went to the liquor store first and was going out toward the grocery
> store to get the lemon when I decided to try just tasting the bitters. I
> took in only a few drops and oh it was awful but the hiccups were gone
> instantly.  Never came back, never had them since, not even once.  That few
> drops of bitters stopped the hiccups forever.
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