With LOTS of onion and garlic helps the common cold. Try savoring the aroma of it first. Breathing steam can work reasonably well if started early enough. Echinacea has a lot of biological effects. I think traditionally it was used not so much for colds but for dental or gum things.
Edited to add link--
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11035691&query_hl=22 "The present study, therefore, suggests that chicken soup may contain a number of substances with beneficial medicinal activity. A mild anti-inflammatory effect could be one mechanism by which the soup could result in the mitigation of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections."
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