Does Chicken soup really help treat the common cold?

This page says it does.

http://www.mydr.com.au/default.asp?article=2525

It does for me..I always start to feel better after a big bowl of soup!

It may be more the heat and the steam than the soup itself. I know I always feel better after a nice hot shower, and I do not bathe with chickens.

i remember reading somewhere that a study found that condensed, canned chicken soup was even better for cold fighting than home made. (although for me the comfort factor of home made far out weighs the canned stuff).
if anyone stumbles across a web page either supporting or debunking this theory, let us know!

Whenever I feel sick, if I can, I stop at the Chinese restaurant on the way home and get some egg drop soup. Always seems to work like a charm for me.

Egg drop soup has chicken base in it....
so, that seems to be another addition to
chicken soup's success story!