Skin Deep, Dark & Delicious
The skinny on chocolate’s therapeutic benefits Ever since the first Europeans encountered cacao, they’ve been documenting its use as medicine. The Badianus Manuscript (dating back to 1552) recorded that Mesoamericans used cocoa derivatives as remedies for everything from angina and constipation to gout and hemorrhoids. As it made its way over to the Old World, kings and cardinals also saw the therapeutic benefits of chocolate. In a 1671 … Read more
