chicken soup

noun3

1. •
   (figurative) A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.

   • Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
2. •
   (figurative) A mixed-up mush.

   • His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
3. •
   (slang, historical) The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.