Play Tricks on Your Body

ByABC News via logo
November 6, 2005, 1:39 PM

Nov. 7, 2005— -- Have a tickle in your throat? Scratch your ear.

Stuffy nose? Use your tongue.

Brain freeze? Heat your mouth.

According to editor in chief of Men's Health, Dave Zinczenko, these are several of the simple self-healing tricks people can do with their own bodies.

"Whenever we're feeling achy or under the weather, we reach for the drugs in the medicine cabinet," Zinczenko said. "But the body has its own hidden cures, once you know how to push your body's own buttons."