While there are always doubts raised about the Chinese products, it was found in a recent report in the Journal of Neuroscience, that a compound extracted from the Chinese Raisin Tree could help in reducing hangovers once one has binged on alcohol too much. The team of researchers led by Jing Liang, an Associate Professor of pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is quite positive about the potential of the cure found.

For the research, the team examined about 800 rodents with Dihydromyricetin or DHM and found nearly positive results. “I think it could be a strong advance if they are able to demonstrate it’s effective in humans and there’s no side effect”, said Le Foll, the Head of the Alcohol Research and Treatment Clinic at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, who is also an Associate Professor at University of Toronto in pharmacology, family medicine and psychiatry. It is being believed that this research has taken a step ahead in the field of traditional medication which belongs to China.

There are nearly 76 million people who are grappling with alcohol use disorders and over 2.5 million deaths that occurred due to the same, and this is what has made the study worth noticing. Even the World Health Organization has taken a serious note of the long running effects of alcohol and has called for some immediate solution to avert the problem to elongate to an extent beyond repair.

So far, it was told that hovenia was used in Asia for nearly 500 years and had not shown any side effects after binge drinking. It was told that alcohol disturbs the balance between two systems in the brain, between excitation and inhibition, and this is what makes one seek some sort of cure for the same. As of now, only three medications (oral naltrexone, acamprosate and disulfiram) are allowed by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, but there are chances that this new study could make way for another cure.