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Treat High Blood Pressure with Grandma’s Penicillin

  • Spence Cooper
  • April 13, 2009
Chicken soup
Little Chicken Soup for the Heart

Chicken soup, known historically as “Grandma’s Penicillin” for its down-home therapeutic properties in curing the common cold, may have even more health benefits. If Japanese scientists are correct, chicken legs and feet that some use in chicken soup appear to have a high source “collagen proteins with effects similar to ACE inhibitors, mainstay medications for treating high blood pressure“.

“In the [Japanese] study, Saiga and colleagues extracted collagen from chicken legs and tested its ability to act as an ACE inhibitor in the laboratory studies. They identified four different proteins in the collagen mixture with high ACE-inhibitory activity. Given to rats used to model human high blood pressure, the proteins produced a significant and prolonged decrease in blood pressure, the researchers say.”

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