One of life's little skills to be acquired is how to take a pill. It may be a vitamin pill or a medicinal pill, but learning how to swallow a pull is often a challenge encountered in the process of growing up.

I was told when I was small that the right way to do this was to put the pill on the very back of my tongue and then to take a good swallow, a good drink, of water. The trouble for me was that I couldn't suppress a gagging reflex with the pill back there. Much to my mother's consternation, this method did NOT work for me.
I have the same problem with tongue depressors too. If a doctor needs to take a look down my throat, that is NOT a viable tool for the purpose. Because of that, I learned how to voluntarily open the back of my throat very wide. However, I digress.
I came up with two of my own, probably not original, pill taking methods.
In one method, I put the pill under my tongue and then take a good swig of water, allowing the pill to wash up from below and get swallowed along with the water. Success!!!
In the other method, I take some water and confine it with my tongue against the roof of my mouth. Then with the water thus trapped, I put the pill under my tongue, close my lips and allow the water to wash the pill up from below as I swallow. Success!!
These two methods also work for taking more than one pill at the same time. Same techniques, same results.
My grandmother had to take pills of her own each day. She actually had to take quite a few of them. I think she used my second method to take as many as a dozen pills all at once and after having done so, she would look at me with a big, wide smile at my open jawed astonishment as if to say "See how I did that, Johnny?"
Yes, Grandma. I saw.