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Interesting Tricks of the Body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.

“When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm,” says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. “This spasm relieves the tickle.”

I always wondered why that worked!

Jun 23rd, 2009
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  1. catherinehepburn reblogged this from marjoree and added:
    need to try this.
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