Hiccup

Also hiccough. Counterflow upsurge of stomach qì causing a continual series of sudden short sounds produced by a jerking of the diaphragm. Hiccup may be caused by excessive consumption of raw or cold or hot spicy foods, or cold bitter or warm dry medicines. It may also be caused by emotional stimulus, or by stomach vacuity cold in enduring or severe disease. Distinction is made between cold hiccup; heat hiccup; vacuity hiccup; repletion hiccup; stasis hiccup; phlegm hiccup; qì hiccup.