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Chocolate Is Good For Curing Persistent Cough - Study -





It's interesting to know that Chocolate is good for curing persistent cough. Persistent Cough is the major problem of the new era. Day by day growing pollution is playing a major role. But Chocolate contains some ingredients which are really good to cure persistent cough.

Chocolate could provide the key to tackling a persistent cough, researchers claim.

They are carrying out the final stages of clinical trials on a drug that contains theobromine, an ingredient naturally present in cocoa and chocolate.
If the trials are successful, the drug could be on the market within two years.

More than seven million Britons suffer from a persistent cough, defined as one that lasts for more than two weeks.
Some have asthma-like symptoms while others suffer from heartburn.
Previous research by London’s National Heart and Lung Institute found that theobromine is 33 per cent more effective than codeine at stopping coughing. It works directly on the vagus nerve, which is responsible for persistent coughing.

Research in South Korea has shown that theobromine has none of the side effects associated with standard drug treatments for a persistent cough.
Now Children have got another excuse to demand chocolate from their parents.
but an excess of everything is bad.
scientists are now extracting that ingredient which is good for cough relief and will use it in pure form.
Chocolate contains too much sugar which can cause weight gain within no time.

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