What are the effects of bird's nest

Bird's nest is the main material for nest building after the throat mucus secreted by the canaries is solidified in the air. As the canary soars up to thousands of meters, absorbs the essence of heaven and earth, ingests insects, and enters the high altitude cliffs to spit and build nests after digestion, the nutritional value of this spit is very high, thus bird's nest is regarded as a precious product. In this article, we will introduce the efficacy and functions of bird's nest.

Nourishes Yin and moistens dryness

Bird's nest is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians and has the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening the lung. It is good for night sweats, hemoptysis, bronchitis, prolonged cough, phlegm and asthma caused by lung yin deficiency, and yin deficiency fever and other diseases of fluid loss.

Benefit Qi and tonify the middle

Bird's nest is flat and sweet in nature, and enters the stomach meridian. It has the effect of tonifying the stomach to stop vomiting and nourishing the middle energy. It is effective for regurgitation, dry vomiting and intestinal tinnitus caused by stomach Yin deficiency, and excessive sweating and urination caused by Qi deficiency with corresponding Chinese herbs.

Anti-viral

A mucin can be extracted from bird's nest to obtain a mucovirus hemagglutination reaction inhibitor, which is very sensitive to the neuraminidase of various influenza viruses, but still lacks a testable blood group antigen. Experiments have shown that mucin is not only an effective inhibitor of the hemagglutination reaction of influenza virus, but also an effective substance to neutralize infectious (inactivated) viruses.

Heart-strengthening and antihypertensive

Bird's nest has a cardiotonic effect, which can enhance the contraction ability of the heart. In addition, bird's nest also has a certain effect on lowering blood pressure, especially for people with high diastolic blood, which has a very obvious effect on lowering blood pressure, suitable for patients with high blood pressure.

Beauty and Beauty

Bird's nest is very rich in high quality protein, which is the main component of human skin, hair and muscle, and is an essential nutrient for the human body. Also, bird's nest contains a very important peptide hormone, epidermal growth factor (EGF), which can stimulate the division and proliferation of many kinds of cells, promote cell differentiation, and provide rapid repair effect to damaged skin. Consuming bird's nest can increase the nutrition of skin and hair to nourish them.

Enhance immune system

Bird's nest contains hormones that promote cell division and epidermal growth factor, which can promote cell regeneration, enhance immunity and increase the body's resistance to X-ray and other radiation damage.

Promote growth and development

Teenagers in the high growth period need a lot of minerals, and bird's nest is rich in minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, potassium, iron and magnesium, which have the effect of promoting bone growth and development.

Promote recovery after illness

Bird's nest's unique protein composition and a large number of bioactive molecules help human tissues grow and develop and recover after illness, especially for the weak.

Characteristics of bird's nest

The intact bird's nest is half-moon shaped, slightly curved like a marquee, 6.5~10 cm long and 3~5 cm wide, called bird's nest. It is yellowish white or off-white in color, with a flat rocky surface, neatly arranged and wavy in shape. The outside of the nest is slightly elevated, and the inner surface is rough, with an uneven network, like a loofah. The texture is hard and brittle, the cross-section looks like gelatinous, silvery white and crystal clear after water infiltration, the body is soft and inflated, lightly pressed with a sense of elasticity, lightly pulled to stretch. Slight smell, sweet taste.

Nutritional composition of bird's nest

Bird's nest is mild in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the spleen and lung meridians. Bird's nest contains high quality amino acids such as arginine, lysine, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and other nutrients that are easily absorbed by human body.

Types of Bird's Nest

The current standard is divided into: white bird's nest, hairy bird's nest and blood bird's nest. (1) White bird's nest (official bird's nest): white in color, with a few down feathers occasionally. Good quality. (2) Hairy swiftlet: gray in color, with more gray and black feathers. The quality is inferior. (3) Blood swiftlet: contains russet blood. The quality is inferior.