Cough Medicines are Made of Chocolate
Friday, December 31st, 2010
Nothing wrong when chocolate is called as one superfood. There have been many studies reveal the benefits of chocolate for health. Content of antioxidants in cocoa pods (raw chocolate maker) has been known to prevent various kinds of diseases, such as heart and blood vessels.
Efforts by scientists to reveal and develop the benefits of chocolate never stopped. In recent research, chocolate is also able to treat persistent cough. One of the natural substances in cocoa called theobromine is currently in final stage clinical trials to be used as medical drugs. If this trial run smoothly, then the cough medicine from the brown material is expected to be present on the market within two years.
For information, persistent cough is a cough that has the characteristics of symptoms more than two weeks. Some sufferers also show symptoms such as asthma. Some are experiencing symptoms such as heartburn.
Most cough medicines on the market is only able to relieve the symptoms and not cure or treat the cause. These drugs are also frequently complained of troublesome side effects, namely drowsiness. In addition, there are concerns from the security side, the side effects of drugs based codeine which typically uses chemicals called opioids.
A previous study by London’s National Heart and Lung Institute showed that 33 percent theobromine prove more effective than codeine in stopping a cough. This substance acts directly on the vagus nerve, which lead to persistent cough.
Research in South Korea also showed that theobromine caused no adverse side effects associated with standard drug therapy for persistent cough. Drug research project that will begin in 2011 will be the final phase of clinical trials of drugs called BC1036 it. This drug was developed by Seek, one group of drug investigators in the UK.
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