A hot bowl of delicious food-based “penicillin soup” can be just what your body needs, yet it contains not a trace of prescription penicillin! What a wonderful and powerful way to give your health a boost during the winter months, and if need be, any time of the year.
Learn how to make this homemade soup with bone broth, herbs, and spices that can help fight colds and infections, using natural antibacterial and antiviral ingredients like thyme, garlic, turmeric, and black pepper.
Prescription penicillin one gets from the doctor is derived from mold. I’ve often wondered if my present day mold sensitivity and allergies are secondary to getting several rounds of pharma penicillin (made from mold) in my childhood.
Sometimes called “antibiotic soup” or “Mother Nature’s penicillin”, a number of cultures have their own unique interpretations of this medicinal culinary masterpiece.
Most of us will know it as the humble homemade chicken soup! However, this is no ordinary chicken soup. This ‘antibiotic’ chicken soup recipe is packed with enough vitamins and minerals to, not only cure a cold, but maybe even keep you from catching one to begin with!
Instead of using traditional chicken stock, I opt for bone broth made from only organic, truly free-range chicken or grass-fed, grass-finished beef (NEVER conventionally raised, caged chicken or feed lot beef) for it’s many anti-aging and health benefits.
Properly sourced bones for broth are far more nutritious than chicken stock, packed with protein, minerals, collagen, electrolytes, and vitamins. If you missed my article on making bone broth, here it is again!
Prescription Penicillin vs. Truly Natural Antibiotic Chicken Soup
Taking a prescription antibiotic comes with a high risk of lowering your body’s natural immune response. Penicillin works by destroying bacteria (both good and bad) within the body and preventing their spread, which means that it can cause both antibiotic resistance and altered forms of these bacteria.
One study I write about shows penicillin, even low-doses of penicillin (Ampicillin, etc.), may increase aggressive behavior and long-term behavioral changes – especially in children.
You’re much better off supporting the body’s natural immune process whenever possible.
Natural penicillin soup is an impressive alternative to antibiotics and the best part… it’s food! Anyone can enjoy the benefits (including children).
For this recipe, I’ve chosen powerful herbs that carry similar medicinal attributes to antibiotics.
Homemade Penicillin Soup Recipe
For this recipe you will need:
• 8 cups of broth made from organic bones
• 2 cups of cooked organic, free-range chicken (from a vetted local source) diced into bite-size pieces and set aside
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 2-4 stalks of celery, chopped
• 1 or 2 onions, chopped
• 1 heaping tablespoon minced garlic (about 5-6 cloves)
• 1 tsp fresh or dried rosemary sprigs
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon organic turmeric powder
• 4 teaspoons of pink Himalayan salt or Celtic sea salt
• optional, 1 cup of protein-rich noodles (like gluten-free, brown rice Tinkyada noodles, which hold their shape and never go mushy)
• optional, 1 teaspoon dried parsley, chopped or oregano
• optional, a scoop of various mushroom powder
Step 1: Add carrots, onions, and celery to a medium-sized pot. Add enough bone broth to cover the vegetables completely and cook on medium heat until it reaches a simmer. Then, turn your heat down to medium-low and let it simmer.
Step 2: Add the garlic, thyme, blk. pepper, salt and rosemary. Continue to simmer until the veggies become soft- about 30 minutes.
Step 3: Add the noodles and the turmeric and cook for 10–15 minutes or until done.
Step 4: Add the already-cooked chicken. Remove from heat and sit for 5–10 minutes before scooping into bowls.
Note: You can get a extra nutrient density by adding one or 2 adaptogenic mushroom powders if you have them on hand. Add a scoop of lion’s mane, reishi, or chaga mushroom powder to your soup towards the end of the cooking process.
Adaptogenic mushrooms are incredible for the immune system, in addition to helping our bodies restore balance and manage stress.
As a soup person, this penicillin soup checks my every box: easy, nutritious, warming, satisfying, healing, quick, and simply delicious comfort food!
During cold and flu season, there’s nothing that makes one feel more cheered and renewed than this penicillin soup.
“Soup is the song of the hearth… and the home.” ~Louis P. De Gouy
***For the Full Spike Protein Protocol to protect from transmission from the “V” and to help those who took the “V”, go here.
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