Have you ever thought how come every time we’re feeling sick the first thing to come to our mind is our grandmother’s chicken soup? It really seems to be the best thing we can ever eat whenever we’re feeling down. Does this soup have any medicinal properties to make it so wanted?
Although there are no studies that support the idea that chicken soup fights cold or any other flu-like condition, there’s enough everyday cases to make it worth trying.
One study published in the medical journal Chest, says that chicken soup has anti-inflammatory effects, which can help in easing up the symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections.
Some researchers studied the movement of neutrophils (a kind of white blood cell) when combined with soup. What they found was that the movement of neutrophils was minimized in the presence of soup, which shows the anti-inflammatory mechanism which theoretically alleviates the cold symptoms.
Study author, Dr. Stephen Rennard, professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, says that there are several unique substances that the in chicken soup contains that can directly affect our cells in the body.
Since the study was done in a lab, not in humans, Dr. Rennard cautions that it still remains to be tested on someone to know the beneficial effects outside the lab. Unfortunately, while
studying, the researchers did not isolate the specific substances present in the chicken soup that could be beneficial nor it was tested on a living person suffering from cold.
