An herbal supplement made from an invasive species in the southern U.S. could help cut back on binge drinking , a new study has found.

Taking supplements made from kudzu root, which is a vine that originally comes from East Asia, limited the number of days people with alcohol use disorder practiced binge drinking, University of California-San Francisco researchers said.

These benefits were still seen three months after the treatment had ended.

The findings could provide a treatment path for binge drinking, the researchers say. The health condition leads to 178,000 deaths a year in the U.S.

“Binge drinking is incredibly common, but we don’t have many tools to offer people who want to cut back,” Glenn-Milo Santos, the study’s lead author and a professor at the university, explained in a statement . “Our goal is to expand that toolkit.”

Could taking a supplement made from an invasive vine help Americans stop binge drinking?…