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The use of chicken soup to treat respiratory infections such as a cold or mild flu is one of the popular examples of a home remedy. According to recent studies, this may actually be effective.
The result of a study published in CHEST journal suggests that Chicken soup may contain a number of substances with beneficial medicinal activity. A mild anti-inflammatory effect could be one mechanism by which the soup could result in the mitigation of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections.
Dr. Barbara O. Rennard and others at Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE shown that Chicken soup significantly inhibited neutrophil migration and did so in a concentration-dependent manner. The activity was present in a nonparticulate component of the chicken soup. All of the vegetables present in the soup and the chicken individually had inhibitory activity, although only the chicken lacked cytotoxic activity. Interestingly, the complete soup also lacked cytotoxic activity. [Read more]
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