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To: OLD JAKE JUSTUS who wrote (4719)	1/12/2000 9:00:00 PM
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*********NEWS************* WHO calls chicken soup 'essential drug'** By Judy Siegel JERUSALEM (January 13) - Long called the "Jewish antibiotic" due to its prevalence in the Ashkenazi diet, chicken soup has been nominated for the World Health Organization's recommended "List of Essential Drugs" by two physicians at Sheba Hospital. Their learned explanation - which includes references to the medical writings of Maimonides, the Talmud, and medical journals and offers a Web site address with chicken soup recipes - appears in the latest (December 14) issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and is briefly described in the latest (January 8) issue of the British Medical Journal. Dr. Abraham Ohry, associate professor and head of the Tel Hashomer hospital's department of neuro-rehabilitation, and Dr. Jenni Tsafrir, head of the reference services at the hospital's medical library, write that 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 four principles: The drug must be evidence-based, efficient, flexible, and forward looking." The authors suggest that chicken soup - the real thing, made by cooking a chicken with vegetables and other natural ingredients in water, not the stuff made from synthetic powdered "soup mixes" - meets all these criteria. They noted that while they know of no major randomized controlled trials (RCT) to determine the efficacy of chicken soup in alleviating illness, "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; chicken soup has been around for considerably longer." Ohry, an expert in the history of medicine, and Tsafrir, adept in locating medical literature, bring quotations from the Talmud about Rabbi Abba, who consumed chicken soup for treatment of "black humors," and from other sources, who used it for treating patients with hemorrhoids, constipation, and leprosy. While chicken soup as a remedy has been much maligned because of its old wives' tale label, they continued, the efficacy of chicken soup for increasing "nasal mucous velocity" was proven in an article in the journal Chest. It was suggested as a possibly effective treatment for asthma. "We feel certain that, despite the absence of significantly statistical evidence from scientific studies, chicken soup is here to stay as part of the armamentarium of traditional effective remedies," they concluded. Ohry told The Jerusalem Post he was certain that the unique benefits of chicken broth could not be had from ordinary vegetable or other soups, as the chicken and its various components, including fats, made it much richer.