HICCUPS - #6 OF THOSE WEIRD THINGS HUMANS DO AND WHY WE DO THEM

6. HICCUPS
Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm the muscular membrane in your chest that figures importantly in breathing.
A spell of them ensues when that muscle gets irritated, often by the presence of too much food in the stomach, or too little.

Weirdly, though, hiccups are as useless as they are annoying; they serve no apparent purpose. One hypothesis suggests they may be a remnant of a primitive sucking reflex. Whatever the ancient function, they are little more than a nuisance now something to be gotten rid of via a variety of creative folk remedies