| 1 | " chicken, like most protein foods, contains a natural amino acid called cysteine, which is released when you make the soup. |
| 2 | Cysteine, bears a remarkable chemical similarity to a drug called acethicysteine, which doctors prescribe for there patients with bronchitis and respiratory infections," writes ziment. |
| 3 | In fact the prescription drug acetyleysteine, which thins mucus to the lungs, originally was derived from chicken feathers and skin, he notes. |
| 4 | Lest you think ziment a crackpot, consider dr. |
| 5 | Stephen rennard chief of pulmonary medicine at the university of nebraska medical center in omaha. |
| 6 | Rennard tested 19 samples made from his wife"s lithuanian grandmothers chicken soup recipe. |
| 7 | He found the soup blocked movement of inflammatory white cells in lab test. |
| 8 | Cold symptoms--coughs--congestion, malaise--are the effect of those white cells" movement into the bronchial tubes. |
| 9 | And rennard"s wife"s soup worked even when the soup was diluted 200 times. |
| 10 | If nausea is part of that cold or flu, be sure to put some ginger in your soup. |
| 11 | Ginger -- even the amount in a couple of gingersnaps or a glass of ginger ale-- has been found to be comfort for an upset tummy. |
| 12 | Daniel mowry, a utah psychologist, put patients in a spinning chair as a test. |
| 13 | No one given 100mg of dramamine was able to stay past 6 minutes. |
| 14 | Fully half of those who took about half-teaspoon of powdered ginger survived more than 6 minutes. |
| 15 | Danish researchers found that ginger suppressed vomiting; the protection took effect within 25 minutes of taking the ginger and lasted about 4 hours. |
| 16 | Finally, remember that the best defense is a good offense. |
| 17 | Take our advice; make a batch of soup. |
| 18 | Freeze half. |
| 19 | Chances are, you"re going to need it he says "those old wives were right about chicken soup. |
| 20 | The best cold remedy there is is chicken soup with hot peppers. |
| 21 | Serve it hot and take in small doses , often. |
| 22 | One doctor calls soup"the best cold remedy there is." |
