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subsecret
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I don't think that it's still used in cough syrups. I've heard that they used to use it for such purposes, but the United States discontinued that.
According to the article below, you can still buy chloroform-based cough syrups in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform
Read "Safety."
Fear is what you get when caution wasn't enough.
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bfesser
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Interesting. I learn something new every day. Thank you. 
I will return the favor. If you want to link directly to a section in any Wikipedia article, just append it at the end of the URL, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform#Safety
(case sensitive and use underscores for spaces)
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It could be the missing link in smoking related cancers. Everyone just had a cough! I don't know what it's doing there. It's not an active ingredient.
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Back in the 70s and early 80s here in Canada, a lot of cough syrups indeed had chloroform; quite a bit of it too. The theory was that CHCl3
acted as a mild irritant and helped dislodge phlem by thinning it out. Same reason they used to add ammonium chloride to these syrups.
In my opinion, the whole idea is utter nonsense. Kind of like Vicks Vaporub where mild irritation by the menthol is supposed to help. I think all of
these cough syrups are utterly useless. But what are you gonna do in an age where people believe in things like homeopathy.
BTW occasional ingestion of small quantities of chloroform is apparently not as bad as you might think; little is absorbed into the bloodstream from
the gastrointestinal track. Still I think it was nuts; like taking strychnine to improve muscle tone.
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Deleted as duplicate.
[Edited on 24-3-2015 by careysub]
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