Almost everyone has experienced hiccups at some point. Not only do adults have hiccups, children have hiccups, and even the fetus in the mother’s womb can have hiccups. Let’s talk about hiccups today. What are the causes of hiccups? The medical term for hiccups is “hiccups” and is one of the most common occurrences in life. Although hiccups don’t affect your body, they can affect your social life. So what causes hiccups? Hiccups are often caused by overeating. There are various causes of hiccups, including functional or organic changes in the stomach and esophagus. There are also external substances, biochemical and physical stimuli that can cause them. For example, hiccups can be caused by excessive air entering the stomach and overflowing from the mouth, psychoneurological factors, eating habits, and excessive swallowing movements. Chinese medicine explains “hiccups”, which is mostly blamed on deficiency of spleen and kidney, emotional and mental disorders, deficiency of righteousness, etc., or improper diet, such as over-eating cold, spicy, or too full, etc., can cause hiccups. The common clinical patterns are: cold in the stomach: the erratic sound is sluggish and strong, decreasing with heat and increasing with cold, white coating on the tongue and sluggish pulse. Stomach fire rebellion: the sound of erratic rebellion is loud, continuous and strong, with bad breath, thirst, red face and constipation, yellow tongue coating and smooth pulse. Qi stagnation: erratic rebellion with continuous sound, often triggered or aggravated by unpleasant emotions, fullness in the chest, distention and fullness in the abdomen, belching and reduction, intestinal tinnitus, thin white fur, string pulse. Spleen and kidney yang deficiency: weak erratic sound, incontinent qi, pale face, unheated hands and feet, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, pale tongue, sunken pulse. Stomach Yin deficiency: rapid and discontinuous erratic sound, dry mouth and tongue, irritable and thirsty, red tongue with little fluid, thin pulse. In conclusion, the evidence of hiccups is always caused by the rebellion of stomach qi on the diaphragm, so the basic treatment is to regulate the qi and lower the rebellion. 6 ways to help you relieve hiccups 1, distraction, eliminate tension and bad stimuli. 2. Take a deep breath, then hold it for as long as possible, then exhale, and repeat several times. 3.Drink boiling water, especially slightly hot water, take a big sip and swallow it in small portions. 4, wash your hands, insert your index finger into the mouth and gently stimulate the pharynx. 5.Chew ginger slices. 6, press the “ear point” to relieve hiccups, the effect is very obvious Oh. Ear point therapy quickly “stop” hiccups Take point: ear point, this point is located in the middle of the geometric plane of the auricle, so also known as the pivot point, zero point, clinically often used to regulate the physiological functions of the spleen and stomach in the human body. This point is used clinically to regulate the physiological functions of the spleen and stomach. Technique: press the “ear point”. This method of treating erratic is simple and easy, economical and practical, with Chinese medicine Wang Bu Liuxing or finger point press this point, mostly within 1 to 2 minutes, can quickly and effectively relieve the patient’s pain. Tips: If the eruption is persistent or recurrent, with obvious concurrent evidence, or appears in the course of other acute and chronic diseases, further evidence-based treatment or combined treatment of other diseases is required. Ear acupuncture point knowledge sticker The ear acupuncture point has the function of regulating qi, lowering rebelliousness and stopping vomiting, so this point alone is often effective for car sickness and seasickness caused by stomach qi rebellion. When motion sickness or seasickness occurs, press this point with your finger for 1-2 minutes, and symptoms such as nausea and dizziness are often relieved or disappear. In addition, the auricular point can also be used to treat a variety of bleeding and nocturia, such as nosebleeds, coughing up blood, blood in the stool, excessive menstrual flow in women, etc. Also, through combination, the auricular point is often used to treat bedwetting in children with reliable results.