Editing Chicken soup (section)

==Health effects==
Chicken soup has long been touted as a form of [[folk medicine]] to treat [[respiratory infections]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoenig |first=Leonard J. |date=2022 |title=Chicken soup for the skin! |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36122880/ |journal=Clinics in Dermatology |volume=40 |issue=6 |pages=764–767 |doi=10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.09.002 |issn=1879-1131 |pmid=36122880}}</ref> In 2000, scientists at the [[University of Nebraska Medical Center]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]] studied the effect of chicken soup on the [[inflammatory response]] ''[[in vitro]]''. They found that some components of the chicken soup inhibit [[neutrophil]] migration, which may have an [[anti-inflammatory]] effect that could ''hypothetically'' lead to temporary ease from symptoms of illness.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Rennard BO, Ertl RF, Gossman GL, Robbins RA, Rennard SI |title=Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro |journal=Chest |volume=118 |issue=4 |pages=1150–7 |date=October 2000 |pmid=11035691 |doi=10.1378/chest.118.4.1150 |url=http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11035691 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801120335/http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11035691 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 August 2012 |citeseerx=10.1.1.584.6659 }}</ref> However, since these results have been obtained from purified cells (and directly applied), the diluted soup ''[[in vivo]]'' effect is debatable. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewed the University of Nebraska study, among others, in 2007 and concluded that "none of the research is conclusive, and it is not known whether the changes measured in the laboratory really have a meaningful effect on people with cold symptoms."<ref>Parker-Pope, Tara (2007), [http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/the-science-of-chicken-soup/ "The Science of Chicken Soup"] (12 October issue).</ref>

It has also been shown that chicken soup contains the [[amino acid]] [[cysteine]], which is very similar to [[acetylcysteine]], which is used by doctors for patients with [[bronchitis]] and other respiratory infections.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/01/10/strategies-to-help-you-survive-the-cold-season/ | work=Chicago Tribune | first=Bob | last=Condor | title=Strategies To Help You Survive The Cold Season | date=10 January 1996}}</ref>

Chicken soup is also known as "[[Jews|Jewish]] penicillin".<ref>{{cite web|last=Oliver|first=Jamie|title=Jewish penicillin|work=Jamieoliver.com|url=http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/jewish-penicillin/|access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wex|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Wex|title=Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It|page=177|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=2016|isbn=9781466882652|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOaUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|quote=To call chicken soup “Jewish penicillin” is to point to its limitations, not its virtues.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bratskeir|first=Kate|title=Chicken Soup Really Is 'Jewish Penicillin' For Your Cold. Mom Was Right.|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=19 December 2014|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/chicken-soup-for-colds_n_6327998.html|access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref>