I read a few years ago that “rectal digital massage” AKA “Finger in the bum” is a legit treatment for hiccups
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Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 months agoThat’s why there are no clinically proven hiccup cures. There’s no way to be better than placebo when the placebo effect is more than enough to get rid of hiccups on its own.
AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That one is likely not placebo but some kind of off-label vagus nerve stimulation
lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Also: hiccups aren’t bad enough for people to invest money to cure them. And how are you to call the standard cures a placebo? Im not hiccupologist but holding breath is kind of what they all gravitate to and and sounds reasonable when something went wrong with your breath in the first place