How to Treat Hiccups Using Lemon

Lemon peel, juice and pulp have had infinite uses and applications for centuries worldwide. Used as a food and beverage flavoring, garnish, cleaner, antiseptic, body cleansing agent, bleaching agent, and more, the power of lemon cannot be underestimated. It is incredibly cleansing to the human body as it contains a stunning amount of vitamin C (about 45mg in a large lemon) and helps to protect the body against free radicals that cause cancer and heart disease. One of lemon's many home remedies is as a hiccup cure.

Things You'll Need

• 1 lemon
• 1 bottle of Worcestershire sauce
• Cutting board
• Knife
• Small bowl
• Lemon juice, freshly squeezed or bottled
• Raw, unprocessed honey
• Black salt crystals
• Small glass
• Shot glass

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Instructions

Lemon/Worcestershire Sauce Remedy

• 1

  Slice the lemon into wedges on a cutting board.

• 2

  Pour Worcestershire sauce over a wedge of lemon. Do this over a small bowl to catch any excess sauce.

• 3

  Suck on the Worcestershire sauce-doused lemon wedge to stop hiccup spasms.

Lemon/Honey/Black Salt Remedy

• 4

  Measure out 2 tsp. of lemon juice and pour them into a small glass.

• 5

  Measure 1 tsp. of raw, unprocessed honey and add it to the glass of lemon juice.

• 6

  Add anywhere from four to seven black salt crystals to the mixture, depending on their size, and drink the remedy