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Chocolate For That Cough
Topic Started: Nov 23 2004, 07:09 AM (100 Views)
cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
All you chocolate lovers (Oh, Jackie!) gotta love this--or already know. :o

Coughing? Pop a chocolate
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London - An ingredient in chocolate may actually be a more effective cough medicine than traditional remedies, New Scientist reports.

Researchers gave 10 healthy volunteers tablets containing theobromine - a constituent of cocoa - codeine, or a placebo.

The volunteers were asked to inhale a gas containing capsaicin - a derivative of chilli peppers - which induces coughing and is used as an indicator to test the effectiveness of cough medicines.

It was discovered that theobromine is almost a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs compared to codeine.

Theobromine also appeared to have no unwanted side effects. This is not true of codeine, which is a narcotic and lists drowsiness and constipation among its negative effects.

Writing in the online Faseb Journal, researchers said theobromine works by suppressing vagus nerve activity, which is responsible for causing coughing.
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DylansMom
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Jackie-Sioux Falls, SD (in Arizona for the moment)
Oh, I didn't know that!!!! I feel a cold coming on, cough, cough. Gotta run next door!
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Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
Chris, thank you! You have given me another reason to eat more chocolate!

I have a theory that things that consistently taste so good must be good for us in some way other than to fuel the body (fat and carbs). This reinforces that thought.

Now where did I stash that Ghiradelli Dark?
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Take two chocolates and rest in bed...make it three!

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mychrissy
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Chrissy
and.................it's supposed to make women feel sexy too. :wub: :wub: :wub:

Chris, you didn't finish telling the whole story.
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Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
It IS???
That's the last thing in the world I need at this stage of my life. :ohmy:
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Trailblazer
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I thought the title said "Chocolate for that Couch."

I couldn't imagine what that was all about. :lol:
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Heathertee
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Trailblazer, according to Chrissy, first the cough; then the chocolate; then the couch!

Who said that???!!! :ohmy:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Man, I just wanted to spread some good news about chocolate and health, and here you womens go turning food around to sex again! :faint:
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Heathertee
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Chris, you need to read some MFK Fisher books. That IS what it's all about! :curtsey:
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