Because they don't want to admit that great great great great great great great great great great great great (how many greats will it take to go back to when chicken soup was invented) great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great (i think i am almost there) great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa and grandma were right and they would have to admit the flu shots don't do anything for the flu that a bowl of homemade soup can do.
LOL excellent points - No money to be made in the pharmaceutical market, no kick backs! But yea my moms chicken noodle soup helped me out and it didn't make me paranoid or suicidal like the Pfizer crap :)
I actually had a Jewish Doctor onetime tell me that fresh made chicken broth would help fight off a cold. A doctor could not prescribe chicken noodle soup because the noodles add too much starch to your diet. Now a true recipe that works every time is fresh chicken broth with lots of fresh lemon and garlic cloves simmered for 6 to 8 hours and then sipped slowly, from a mug, while inhaling the vapors from the steam. About a gallon of this over about 3 days period will pretty much knock a cold on its butt.
Profit and greeeeed. They knew they all couldnt buy Campbell's stock without being found out. I am sure to step on a few toes here,,, but... The same can be said for most organisations and professions that have achieved noticeable levels of power. It seems to corrupt from within. The current forms of insurance, power and energy providers, attorneys, etc, etc. The saddest part of this truth... People with medicinal knowledge were entrusted with the responsibility of [Care Giving] , we were betrayed by them and our own blind trust unchecked. This happened at or about the same tiime that it became a medical profession. People, friends and sites like this go a long way in healing the mind and heart. Most of the rest can be taken care of by a bowl of home-made chicken soup and a cup of tea.
Yes, we know why they don't prescribe a simple remedy of chicken soup for flu or cold symptoms...greeeeed, just as many below have mentioned. Sometimes it is just very simple things that keep us healthy instead of all the pills. Pills eventually will make us more sick!
Doctors are in to medicine and don't have a stake in the soup companies nor the companies that supply the things used in homemade chicken soup, Doctors, Drugstores,hospitals and funeral directers are all in the bed together, so why would they recommend or prescibe it, they are not making any money from it, somethings we have to take into our own hands if we know it helps and is good for us...the best to you
Ha they practically KNOW that homemade delicious chicken noodle soup is a lot better than a flu shot :). So they don't prescribe it :P
1. You don't get hurt or scared of the needle. 2. It's delicious and can be made at home saving you a trip 3. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL It costs little money!
Oh Sweeties (all of you other answerers &Tig) the reason they don't "prescribe" it is because you don't need a prescription to get it. If it's over the counter they don't prescribe. Every doctor I've ever had - and that's a lot - have recommended chicken soup when I've been sick. They also sometimes give me an Rx but not nearly as often as the recommendation. I don't know what docs you all have been seeing, but try asking them about it the next time. I'll bet most of them will agree that chicken soup couldn't hurt and might very well help. If you've got high blood pressure, you need to either buy the low sodium kind, or if you make it yourself, reduce the salt as much as you can stand it.
