CAN CHOCOLATE STOP YOUR COUGH?

Chocolate to Stop Coughs?

Prepared Foods December 20, 2004 enewsletter

Researchers have discovered that an ingredient present in chocolate could help stop persistent coughs.

According to research published online in FASEB Journal, the team discovered that theobromine, a derivative found in cocoa, is nearly a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs when compared with codeine, currently considered the best cough medicine.

Professor Peter Barnes, from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, and one of the paper’s authors, commented, “Coughing is a medical condition which affects most people at some point in their lives, and yet no effective treatment exists. While persistent coughing is not necessarily harmful, it can have a major impact on quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem.”
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Gosh, it’s the sixties all over again. Chocolate and codeine? Too good to be true!
(RJR)