Eating Chocolate Can Cure Cough, This Is A Scientific Explanation

Cough, just try eating chocolate. (Shutterstock)

A scientific study says eating chocolate can relieve the cough you experience. How come?


Eating Chocolate Can Cure Cough , This Is A Scientific Explanation

The benefits of eating chocolate are not only to improve mood. A scientific study says eating chocolate can relieve the cough you experience.

Quoted by Himedik from Popsugar, a scientific study published in the journal BMJ Open in January 2017 said that a team from the University of Hull in Yorkshire, England, managed to find the benefits of reducing cough that chocolate has.

The team randomly prescribed 163 patients seeking medical treatment to cough two drugs: regular codeine or CS1002, which is a prescription-free cough medicine with a cocoa base.


Participants were instructed to take their medication four times a day for one week or until the cough disappeared and recorded their symptoms every day.

The researchers finally found that CS1002 was associated with a greater reduction in the frequency of cough, sleep disturbances, and improvement in health status compared to codeine.

Tania Elliott, MD, clinical medical instructor at NYU Langone Health, said this was not the first study of chocolate as a cough reliever.

"Researchers have examined the quality of theobromine cough reliever, a special ingredient for dark chocolate, for years. Black chocolate is also known as an antioxidant. So anything that will calm your immune system is a good thing," Dr. Elliott.
A study says chocolate is more effective in coughing than cough medicine. (Shutterstock)

Dr. Elliott explained, cocoa beans in a liquid form coat and soothe the throat like honey.

Some researchers suggest sucking a piece of dark chocolate to relieve coughing.

Elliott also says slow release can be calming, even though you also shouldn't expect miraculous results.

"Don't buy it too much. This won't make your flu and cough symptoms disappear faster. But you're also not wrong if you buy it," he concluded. (Himedik / Yuliana Sere)