Moog wrote:
Kaybee wrote:
Moog: Glad to hear it! Though it sounds like you ought to keep someone who likes to cook around for just such emergencies.

I'd love to 'keep someone who likes to cook around for emergencies'. Any offers?
It does get boring cooking for oneself all the time.

Moog wrote:
I read that chicken soup has an anti-inflammatory action. Which is why it makes you feel better. But I would think that the inflammation was there for a reason? Maybe recovery would slow down. Like I believe that inhibiting fever probably isn't a great idea. The body knows what it's doing.
If you have the will, when sick, to go for what your brain logically tells you is best, and this directly goes against what
feels best, I commend you, sir. Your will is better than mine. When I'm sick and miserable, I'd pretty much sacrifice a year of my life for the chance of ending the misery.
But hyperbole (or honesty?) aside, your comment made me really wonder what is the better course of action. Having just spent entirely too long trying to find the answer, I have been able to surmise two things:
1. The internet does not yet have this information readily available for the layman (how rare!)
2. The science, to the degree I was able to understand it, suggests that you're probably right. All of the info I was able to find was on external injuries or lung inflammation, though. I found nothing on colds, the flu, or similar ailments.
To your comment that "the body knows what it's doing," though, I must emphatically disagree. I'm pretty convinced that my body has spent its entire life trying to kill me.
I'm also curious what you read, but I think I've derailed this thread enough. I ramble sometimes. >_< So, ah...2? Well, previously 2. Learning things ups it to about a 3.5. Thanks for that!
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