Chocolate is better for your cough than cough syrup, study says

6ABC ^ | January 16, 2019

[SMGFan]

NEW YORK -- It may sound too good to be true, but researchers now say indulging in that piece of chocolate is actually the best cure for your cough.

A research group from a university in England randomly prescribed more than 160 patients either regular cough medicine or a chocolate-based medicine.

Patients on the chocolate-based medication reported improving more quickly than those on regular cough syrup.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I wondered why I quit coughing when I ate the Christmas fudge. 😊

[carmen2017]

My God my mother told me that in the 1950s. Can’t these Whipper Snappers come up with anything NEW.

[Sacajaweau]

I pop 500 mg Vitamin C for two days and voila....it's gone.

But I'll eat chocolate. It soothes my throat.

[Dr. Sivana]

International Society for the Study of Cough

How do I get membership in such an organization. It sounds like something out of a Monty Python skit.

[MayflowerMadam]

Rush discussed this a few days ago. Said he always has better results with chocolate than meds when it comes to coughing. He thought it was just unique to him, I guess, and didn’t realize it’s “a thing”.

[vetvetdoug]

Pineapple has more bromethalin in it than does many cough suppressants. Next time I get coughing I’m going to eat chocolate and pineapple.

[Blood of Tyrants]

But it’s hard to walk around with a bag of melted chocolates in your pocket.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Next time I get coughing I’m going to eat chocolate and pineapple.”

Sounds like the beginning of a banana split to me. I’m comfortable with that.

[GailA]

You ever taste FAKE Chocolate Flavoring? 100 degrees different than the Real stuff, even the cheapo stuff. Just get a bag of Hershey’s kisses or Dove’s, and let them melt in your mouth, save your taste buds the Horror of FAKE Flavoring.

I prefer Spearmint candy, does the throat and stuffy nose.

[GOPJ]

I’m guessing things that naturally taste wonderful are health foods...

[GailA]

Having a hubby who is a Chocoholic, with Pneumonia coughing his lungs up, still consuming Chocolate, I can tell you it doesn’t work. He even consumes quantities of jelly beans he lets melt in his mouth.

Heaving coughing try Tesslon Perles script. 2 pills a day. Even a Glaucoma patient can have them. My mom broke ribs coughing from Bronchitis.

[Puppage]

Buckley’s cough mixture. Nuff said.

[G Larry]

Science at it’s best!

https://www.drgreene.com/dark-chocolate-coughs/

https://nutrineat.com/dark-chocolate-for-cough

https://www.everydayhealth.com/cold-and-flu/1210/chocolate-a-cure-for-the-common-cough-4924.aspx

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/759259/how-to-cure-cough

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is the only planet in the entire universe that has chocolate.

It is the only planet in the entire universe that has liberals.

[Verginius Rufus]

But it's hard to walk around with a bag of melted chocolates in your pocket.

Get some M&M's. "Melts in your mouth, not in your pocket."

[texas booster]

It looks like that all chocolate provides is stickiness, to allow any medicine to stay in the throat for longer, or to soothe the throat.

We still need more than chocolate (even dark chocolate) to help our throats.

But it does taste better than Robitussin ...

[Deplorable American1776]

Nice... New cough syrup flavor... Hershey’s...

[Deplorable American1776]

It tastes like liquid Ajax with salt added...not sure how you know what liquid Ajax tastes like...

[lee martell]

Let’s just say that I lost a bet back in First Grade.

[MisterArtery]

My Granny dosed us with a teaspoon of sugar saturated with kerosene (coal oil, as she called it.)