Soup

I picked up a really nice memento from Wiesn - a cold. As far as colds go, it was a pretty mild one. Just sneezing, snotty nose, and a sore throat - no loss of voice, coloured mucus, headaches or fevers. However, being an opportunist, I decided that it was the perfect time to make soup! And not just any old chicken soup (although I made that too), I decided to make this soup which is practically perfect for colds.

Tom Kha Kai!!!

What makes it so perfect? It has ingredients that have been shown to possess medicinal properties. Firstly, it's a chicken soup- chicken soup has been shown to inhibit migration of a class of white blood cells.
I made the soup using chicken legs and lemon juice - vitamin C and zinc are good for the common cold. (Although that paper comes from Bayer - grain of salt, people!)
Another major ingredient is chilli - capsaicin is antibacterial, just in case something does start taking over the mucus.
I threw in carrots - beta-carotene is (among many other things) an antioxidant.
But if all the others fail, just drinking hot liquids clears the upper respiratory tract.