By Mihai Andrei on Nov 19, 2019 05:55 am
Tom kha gai, a traditional Thai soup (via Wikipedia).
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Numerous cultures prescribe a hot broth for treating fever, each ascribing miraculous powers to their soups. For instance, Jewish grandmothers would always recommend a rich chicken soup, while the Japanese would swear by miso soup. In Eastern Europe, beet soup is often seen as an important winter treatment, and several different cultures support garlic soup as a cure. There is no shortage of such claims, but is there any truth to them?
Cabbage Soup
The soups were frozen on arrival, and then thawed, centrifuged, and filter sterilized. In the lab, researchers also cultured a strain of
Plasmodium falciparum — the most
dangerous malarial pathogen. Filtered soup extracts were tested for their ability to inhibit parasite replication and for their ability to block parasite transmission through the mosquito. The results were intriguing.
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