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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That'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 instantaneously on its own, even if you know it's a placebo.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I read a few years ago that "rectal digital massage" AKA "Finger in the bum" is a legit treatment for hiccups

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That one is likely not placebo but some kind of off-label vagus nerve stimulation