Garudapurana 1.151

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 151.
Dhanvantari said:
And now I shall tell the etiology of the disease of hiccough, Suśruta! Listen to that.
It shares the same cause and premonitory signs as asthma; the count [of its varieties] is based on their nature.

Hiccough is [of five kinds]: food-caused, minor, double, great, / and deep. There, wind [is aggravated] by food and drink taken in haste and improperly,

afflicted by dry, sharp, harsh, and unsuitable foods and drinks; / respiration [then] produces a hiccough of feeble sound, accompanying hunger.

That which passes away evenly upon taking food and drink is 'food-caused'. / From physical exertion, angered wind brings about 'minor' hiccough.

Issuing from the root of the clavicle, it indeed has feeble force; / it increases through exertion and abates as soon as food is eaten.

The hiccough that arises with paired paroxysms at intervals, / increases during digestion and also reaches its peak in the mouth during digestion,

shaking the head and the neck, one should designate as 'double'. / Accompanied by delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, watery eyes, and yawning,

that 'double' hiccough is forceful and characterized by digestion. / For one whose temples and pair of brows are collapsed, whose vision and hearing are impaired,

stiffening the body, arresting speech, causing loss of memory and consciousness, / piercing as it seeks [an exit], and striking the vital parts,

causing bending backward with jealousy/fretfulness, the 'great' hiccough arises, / with severe pain, loud sound, immense force, and great power.

It originates as before, either from the intestine or the navel.

With that form, it causes excessive yawning and stretching of the limbs. / Due to a deep etiology, however, the 'deep' [hiccough] is very difficult to cure.

One should avoid the first two, others [with all symptoms], and the forceful one showing all signs / in a person of accumulated [morbid matter], the aged, and the excessively sexually active,

in one whose body is wasted by diseases, and one emaciated by fasting. / Though all diseases tend to destruction, none act so swiftly

as hiccough and asthma, for they have made their abode at the time of death.

Thus ends the one hundred fifty-first chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Hiccough', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section named First Part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.