Okay, I'm testing the chocolate cough remedy right now. I have just eaten a couple of pieces of 85% cocoa Lindt dark chocolate and for the present my annoying persistent cough which I have had for the last couple of days has abated - but for how long? And why?

More observations on this experiment later.

Also, on a documentary tv programme about Belgian chocolate the advice was not to eat/chew fine chocolate in a big hurry but to place a piece on your tongue and let it slowly melt so that you can "savour the flavour".

Helen