Efficacy and Benefits of Bird's nest

Benefits of Bird's Nest

The edible bird’s nests is traditionally believed to provide health benefits such as to nourish the yin, alleviate the yang, beautify as well as prolong lifespan. Therefore over the years, bird’s nest has been transformed from an expensive royal food to a precious medicine.

Up until now, scientific research has continuously proven the fact that bird's nest contains plenty of natural nutrients and mineral such as glycoprotein, calcium, iron, phosphorous, iodine and vitamins, all of which can be absorbed easily by human. Recently, under close examination by clinical experiments and scientific research, the nutrition values of bird's nest have further been proven, and thus more and more people now crave for this superb, skin-uplifting and restorative food.

General Benefits

Aid digestion
Moisturize and replenish lungs
Strengthen kidneys
Clear away intestinal heat
Improve Coughs
Improve the voice
Improve focus
Reinforce immunity
Facilitate growth
Beautify skin
Raise libido
Replenish strength and vital energy
Helps sleep disorders
Helps hangovers
Prolong consumer's lifespan

Accelerate Recovery from Diseases / Post Illness Recovery

Alleviate asthma
Improve Bronchitis
Obvious healing effects to post-stage tuberculosis
Heal gastric ulcers
Repair bleeding of the lung
Stimulate the regeneration of cells
Enhance tissue growth
Enhance cell-mediated immunity
Enhance the resistance of an individual to X-irradiated (X-ray) damage

Beauty Benefits

Moisturize the skin
Skin-uplifting
Smooth the skin
Maintain eternal beauty
Enhance the metabolism of fat
Adaptable for either sex or any age group

Pregnancy / Post-Pregnancy Benefits

Increase nutrition
Improve the overall health of the mother and child
Will provide the infant with a flexible mind
Woman after giving birth can recover more quickly and slim rapidly to help maintain their beauty.

Newborn/ Babies Benefits

The stomach and spleen of newborns function weakly. This can easily cause diarrhea and the loss of appetite.
Newborns can be fed with bird's nest that has been dissolved in milk.
Can improve these deficiencies.
Babies that are 6 month old can be fed with rice porridge or congee containing bird's nest.

Children Benefits

Help strengthen the body and stimulate the growth of the brain require during growing period
Edible bird's nest when served with rock sugar, fresh milk or oatmeal aids digestion and constipation.

Youngsters Benefits

Enhance metabolism
Strengthen various body functions
Reinforce immunity
Alleviate tiredness if highly stressed and busy in study
Relieve spiritual pressure
Recover body strength through always consuming bird's nest

Cost-benefit analysis in the Bird's Nest

UV reflectance of skin and feathers as a mark of quality
Light in the ultraviolet region plays in mate choice by birds play an important role. Two teams of researchers have shown that females, the reflection of UV light, even during the care of the young as an indication of the chances of survival of the offspring use and reduce costs with a negative result.

Unlike humans, birds can perceive light in the ultraviolet range. Using ultraviolet light for orientation and to recognize the maturity of the fruit. The choice of partner has the UV plumage a very important role: the dazzling effects are found in many species of birds such as starlings and chickadees not only an indicator of good health, but also promote "good" genes the males, females that males prefer to speak with such bright feathers with dull plumage. But apparently extending the influence of UV-reflection not only feathers in mate choice, but also to the efforts of the birds of the parents in raising their children. This is now two research teams have shown.
Iridescent skin as a sign of fitness

Example, studies revealed a Swiss-British team led by Philipp Heeb not only the University of Lausanne, the skin of the baby birds that UV light is reflected. The researchers also found that the young star are fed by their parents less, when natural UV reflectance of their skin are artificially reduced. To this end, the researchers coated the skin of baby birds with a mixture of fat and a UV filter. In such animals, the researchers presented in the course of the experiment, establish a lower weight gain than the control group had only been beaten with fat.

The researchers offer two possible explanations for their results. To this end, reduced UV reflectance of skin in the dark interior of the nest box, on the one hand to a poor exchange between the children and the nest around - like starlings nesting cavity nesting in nest boxes. On the other hand, weight gain could also be interpreted as limited investment in young animals with a presumably less good gym. This is confirmed in the opinion of scientists, the relationship between the immune call, which serves as a measure of the body's defense mechanisms against pathogens and parasites, and the UV reflectance of skin: the baby birds, which in the nature of the UV levels have a higher immunocompetence and thus are less susceptible to the disease. Apparently, in the form of birds for parents of parental care "quality" of their children.

As Dutch and Swedish researchers led by Tobias Limbourg report of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology Now, check the females during the brood care, but also the "quality" of the father of her children. These studies have demonstrated tits, in which the UV-coloration of the feathers of the head showing the genetic fitness of males. The researchers chose in their area of ​​study of 40 breeding pairs and ran her head feathers of male blue tits as well, either with a mixture of UV-blockers, or fat - the fat just - in the control group. Watched for several days after the feeding behavior of parent birds.

It was found that females, males were less attractive now, feed their young less frequently. While females from males in the control group on average more than 20 times per hour to the nest with food arrived, these young women was reduced to "unattractive" men on average had 16 visits. In males, however, even the scientists observed no changes in feeding behavior. The lower the investment in their blue tits young females is also evident in the smaller body size of offspring, which in turn the "implementation opportunities" of children are expected to reduce coal's bird life .
Forces to save for next year

With these results, it was the first time provided evidence that the attractiveness of males not only in mate choice is important, but it also affects the subsequent investment in the common descent. Previous studies have shown that the intensity of foot care and breeding of operating life expectancy of women tits for a direct connection. Adaptability, the cost of raising their young on their quality, which is a way to force save for later breeding periods. This is particularly important for birds with a season of marriage called the advantage that it can change the year following breeding animals. The basis of previous studies suggest that the "cost-benefit analysis" of women for the subsequent success of young animals have an important role was confirmed once again.