Hiccups in healthy people usually go away on their own and do not require special treatment or the use of physical methods to end them. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly which treatment is best.
For patients with milder symptoms and no obvious underlying illness, the first treatment is physiotherapy at home, including blowing, holding the breath with water, holding the breath after a deep breath, pressing on both eyeballs, pressing on the supraorbital nerve and tongue-holding. For patients with persistent hiccups, the first step is to find the cause and treat it to make the hiccups disappear or reduce the number of episodes. Currently, the main treatments for hiccups include physiotherapy, pharmacotherapy and phrenic nerve blocks.