Kudzu and Sobriety

Kudzu and Sobriety

The ancient herb kudz may help alcoholics get sober, UPI reported April 17.

A kudzu-based Chinese herbal medicine reduces the urge to drink and mitigates the negative effects of alcohol, according to researchers at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rats fed kudzu drank less and were less intoxicated; researchers said kudzu reduces craving by 40 percent.

People in China have long held that kudzu eases the pain of hangovers.

The findings were published in the journal of Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research.


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