Is chicken soup an essential drug?
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1 a drug is considered to be essential if it is " as relevant today as it was 20 years ago, " and it is assessed on the basis of 4 principles. The drug must be evidence-based, efficient, flexible and forward looking. We propose here that chicken soup be classified as an essential drug; not only does it comply with these requirements, but it can be considered as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago. To our knowledge, there have been no randomized controlled trials (RCT) done to determine the efficacy of chicken soup. However, we feel that sufficient observational and anecdotal evidence has accumulated over the centuries to make the requirement for such a trial superfluous. In fact, the RCT in medicine is only 50 years old; 2 chicken soup has been around for considerably longer, as can be gleaned from the following quotations from the Babylonian Tal-mud and the writings of Avicenna and Moses Maimonides. 3 A special food was " the chicken of Rabbi Abba. " Concerning its preparation, there is a divergence of opinion in the commentaries. It was assumed that it was prepared in such a way that after it was cooked, it was soaked in warm water for a long time until it completely dissolved. Rabbi Abba is said to have consumed this fowl as a remedy. 4 As far as possible, the meat should be that of hens or roosters and their broth should also be taken, because this sort of fowl has virtue in rectifying corrupted humours, whatever the corruption may be, and especially the black humours, so much so that the physicians have mentioned that chicken broth is beneficial in leprosy. 5 Chicken soup that is boiled neutralizes [body] constitution. This is [both] an excellent food, as well as a medication for the beginning of leprosy, and fattens the [body] substance of the emaciated and those convalescing from illness. Pigeon sucklings and all soups made therefrom have the special property of producing migraine headaches. ... The partridge, if boiled, causes constipation. If it is boiled in its skin, it loosens the stool. The hen and the rooster have [even] more powerful stool-loosening action. 6 Flesh of fat chickens and broth made therefrom are the most valuable [foods] with which sufferers from this illness [hemor-rhoids] should be nourished. 7 Moreover, in support of observational and anecdotal evidence it can be said …
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- CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
دوره 161 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999