[lit-ideas] Re: The flu

Monday, November 29, 2004, 3:06:51 AM, Andy Amago wrote:



AA> A.A. I would be interested in learning the anti-inflammatory
AA> ingredients in the chicken soup.  The chicken?  The hot water? 
AA> The salt?  The potatoes?  Is this chest specialist selling the
AA> soup?  Skin doctors often promote treatments they are invested in.

The chest specialist is Stephen Rennard, Larson Professor of Medicine in the 
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Pulmonary and Critical Care 
Medicine Section in Omaha, Neb
(etc. etc.)  

brief cv here


www.unmc.edu/publicaffairs/chickensoup/text/bio.htm

some articles by and about him here


http://www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Stephen%20Rennard%22

(including "For this you need an MD?.. " here 

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n11_v14/ai_14513715

which gives his findings

the BBC news story here


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/976348.stm

which also does


You want to ask Nebraska if he's selling soup?



AA> -----Original Message-----
AA> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AA> Sent: Nov 28, 2004 5:50 PM
AA> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
AA> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu

AA> Sunday, November 28, 2004, 7:46:10 PM, Andy Amago wrote:



AA>> Colds and other sickness relief is often a result of the
AA>> placebo effect.  The placebo effect is so powerful and so
AA>> quantitatively measurable that people with Parkinson's disease and
AA>> knee problems have reported improvement of symptoms from placebo
AA>> treatments.  It might be why chicken soup "works".

AA> and it might be the ingredients: a US chest specialist  found
AA> chicken soup has anti-inflammatory properties. 





-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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