Brain tumors occur when cells in the brain begin to divide out of control and start to displace or invade nearby tissues. Occasionally, brain tumors can spread throughout the body. One of the special characteristics of brain tumors is that benign (non-cancerous) tumors in the brain can be just as bad as malignant (cancerous) brain tumors. Any of the various…Continue Reading
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Hiccups and its Treatment
January 2nd, 2010 
Admin Hiccups are one of the most annoying involuntary reflex actions. Any sort of irritation caused in the diaphragm muscles results in erratic breathing producing sound. Other possible causes for hiccups could be hot spicy food, lung infection, stomach problem, kidney disorder, sudden excitement, overeating and eating too fast.
Most of the time, doctors never find the cause of hiccups. When a…Continue Reading
Herbal Remedies For Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin Hiccups are one of the most annoying involuntary reflex actions. Any sort of irritation caused in the diaphragm muscles results in erratic breathing producing sound. Other possible causes for hiccups could be hot spicy food, lung infection, stomach problem, kidney disorder, sudden excitement, overeating and eating too fast.
Hiccoughs or hiccups are caused when the chest cavity gets suddenly contracted due…Continue Reading
Home Remedies For Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin Hiccups are one of the most annoying involuntary reflex actions. Any sort of irritation caused in the diaphragm muscles results in erratic breathing producing sound. Other possible causes for hiccups could be hot spicy food, lung infection, stomach problem, kidney disorder, sudden excitement, overeating and eating too fast.
Hiccoughs or hiccups are caused when the chest cavity gets suddenly contracted due…Continue Reading
Herbal and Ayurvedic Treatment of Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin Hiccoughs or hiccups are caused when the chest cavity gets suddenly contracted due to the irritation of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is the muscular partition that divides the chest and the abdomen. Its contraction leads to the sound box (larynx) to shut temporarily, producing the characteristic hic sound of the hiccough.
In Ayurveda, there are five types of hiccoughs. They are…Continue Reading
Easiest Ways to Get Rid of Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin Hiccups is a reflex action of the body by which the body protects itself. Hiccups are short, sharp and very sudden breaths of air which happen when our breathing muscles jerks, making us gasp. While inhaling air, the diaphragm, located between the chest and the stomach, goes down and presses the stomach due to which the lungs are filled with…Continue Reading
How to Cure Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin A hiccup is a muscle spasm of the diaphram muscle, which seperates the lungs from your stomach. The muscle goes into a spasm and forces the air out of the lungs, creating a hiccup. The best way to stop the spasm is to totally relax your body. Take a deep inhale, hold it for a few seconds and blow out…Continue Reading
Some Remedial Measures For Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin This is a condition which can make others laugh as well as irritate them if hiccups keep bothering you for a very long time. Hiccups are also spelt as hiccoughs as the sound is derived from act of hiccups. It is caused by the sudden contraction of the diaphragm, the muscle used for breathing.
Getting hiccups is one of the…Continue Reading
Tips to Dispose of Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin Hiccups is a reflex action of the body by which the body protects itself. Hiccups are short, sharp and very sudden breaths of air which happen when our breathing muscles jerks, making us gasp. While inhaling air, the diaphragm, located between the chest and the stomach, goes down and presses the stomach due to which the lungs are filled with…Continue Reading
How to Stop Hiccups
January 2nd, 2010 Admin The name Charles Osborne may not ring a bell to readers today. But in his time he was famous for one thing: hiccups.
The Guinness World Records lists him as the man with the longest attack of hiccups. His hiccups began in 1922 at the rate of 40 times per minute and finally ended after 68 years in 1990!
“It has…Continue Reading
