Spicy Chicken Soup

May 28, 2025, 6:52 PM

see pp. 44, 45, 48

from page 44: "...mix up some garlicky-rich chicken soup with a hefty dash of red or black pepper. It's the standard, he avows, against which all other therapeutic cold remedies should be judged. 'It's probably the best there is.' "

from page 45: "The well-known twelfth-century Jewish physician Maimonides, an expert on asthma, recommended spicy chicken soup for that condition and 'the stirring up and ejection of pulmonary phlegm."