I asked my mother if she has any unique home remedies:

“I swear by my home-remedy cure for hiccups. All I do is eat a spoonful of creamy peanut butter straight out of the jar and it always works for me.”

I then asked where she learned this:

“I actually figured it out for myself. Hiccups always annoyed me so much so I tried all of the typical remedies people suggest and nothing ever worked. I figured out my peanut butter trick sometime around my last year in college and it’s worked ever since.”

Background: Tamara has lived her entire life in Southern California and attended USC from 1979 to 1983.

Context: My mom shared this trick with me while sitting at our kitchen table eating breakfast.

Analysis: A remedy is such an interesting thing in and of itself because each one is so different depending on who you ask, and most typically, people swear by the specific remedies that work for them and disregard remedies from other people. One remedy that could work every single time for one person could never work once for another, which I think makes them a really interesting topic of study in cultures around the world. I have grown up attempting to cure hiccups by eating a spoonful of peanut butter because it is what I learned from my mom. Depending on where and how you were raised, you have a very different view of what really has the ability to heal.

For other hiccup remedies access the link below:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/9896.php