Specialists of the National Institute of health, USA has developed a prescription of chocolate.
It is assumed that they help patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A special type of cocoa plus a useful auxiliary substances and sweets will help to lower blood pressure and stimulate the production of insulin.
Now new drugs are tested on volunteers. Scientists vehemently defend his invention in scientific discussions. And financed by the “chocolate” of the study one of the world leaders of the confectionery market.
Scientists claim that delicious sweetness helps to treat cough. Normal chocolate contains substances with much more pronounced antitussive effect than the classic cough medicines. First of all it refers to theobromine.
As shown by studies conducted by scientists from University College London with the participation of 10 volunteers, theobromine is used as antitussives acts several times more effective than considered the most effective drug codeine. So, with the use of codeine people still remained exposed to the action of capsacin — irritating substances that stimulate the cough reflex, and the use of theobromine for the initiation of coughing scientists had to introduce a dose of capsacin, exceeding the standard by 30%.
In addition, theobromine revealed another positive feature — unlike other cough medicines, it practically does not affect cardiovascular or nervous system. Its mechanism of action, apparently, is not associated with inhibition of cough center of the brain, and specific inhibition of the activity of the vagus nerve, the transmitting including information from receptors in the respiratory tract.
