What is bird's nest made of? Efficacy and function of bird's nest

We often see some sayings about bird's nest in film and television dramas, so many people have the impression that bird's nest is a nourishing Chinese medicine, but in real life, many of us also find that eating bird's nest has no good effect. So, what is bird's nest? Does bird's nest have these effects and functions?

1, nourishing yin and moistening lung

(1) "Herbal rejuvenation" Bird's nest greatly invigorates vitality, moistens lung and nourishes yin. Treat fatigue cough, hemoptysis, vomiting blood, return to yuan fire, moisten intestines and stimulate appetite.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the qi of human body is composed of innate qi, afterlife qi and natural clear qi, which is composed of lung, spleen, stomach and kidney.

Lung governs anger, spleen and stomach are the source of anger, and kidney is the root of anger. Bird's nest enters the lung meridian, which not only tonifies lung qi, but also nourishes yin. The lung qi is sufficient, so natural cold and cough dare not attack. On the contrary, deficiency of lung yin leads to internal heat, damages lung collaterals and causes bleeding. The nourishing yin function of bird's nest can improve the symptoms of yin deficiency, and has a good therapeutic effect on hemoptysis and vomiting blood, which is very suitable for the elderly. Igniting fire to return to yuan refers to guiding the upper edge of deficiency fire back to its original position, and yuan refers to kidney yuan. Moistening intestines and appetizing is to excrete toxins and accumulated food in the intestines, so that the intestinal peristalsis is normal.

(2) Bird's nest, nourishing lung yin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, can clear phlegm, and is a holy medicine for conditioning deficiency, tuberculosis and dysentery. Anyone who can't clear lung deficiency can be cured.

Traditional Chinese medicine considers lung as the main indication. What does this mean? Treating stagnation, that is, conditioning, means that lung qi has the function of conditioning lung itself and whole body qi, blood and body fluid. Mainly reflected in three aspects: (1) regulating the whole body's qi, and maintaining normal gas exchange inside and outside the body through rhythmic breathing and breathing; The second is to regulate the operation of blood. The capillaries of the lung exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide, and through the ascending and descending movement of the lung to the pulse and qi, it assists the heart and promotes the operation of blood. This theory is consistent with western medicine. The third is to control and regulate the metabolism of body fluids, and to control and regulate the whole body's water and liquid transportation, operation and excretion through the declaration of the lungs.

Bird's nest nourishes lung yin, which can resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Deficiency, namely fatigue, physical fatigue; Tuberculosis is tuberculosis, overwork and deficiency of lung yin. It is easy to be infected by mycobacterium tuberculosis and cause tuberculosis. Bird's nest can help you adjust your body and block the source of the disease. As long as it is a symptom caused by lung yin deficiency, bird's nest can be well conditioned by nourishing yin, moistening lung and lowering lung qi. After busy work, make a delicious rock candy bird's nest for yourself, treat yourself and enhance righteousness.

2, spleen and qi

(1) outline of medical forest. It has medicinal properties, and can harmonize spleen, nourish lung and soothe liver; Salty taste can nourish heart, promote blood circulation, tonify kidney and clear heat; Its viscosity, especially can dry and spit saliva. After the swallow exhales, the semen gathers and the mind is concentrated, which can greatly supplement fatigue.

Gan is the sexual taste of bird's nest, and Chinese medicine pays attention to four flavors and five flavors. Sweet medicine has three characteristics: tonic, slow and harmonious. Can make up, that is, can make up the middle qi, such as ginseng and astragalus; Can slow down, that is, can relieve pain, such as licorice; If it can be reconciled, the nature of the medicine can be reconciled. On the one hand, the sweet taste of bird's nest can replenish the middle jiao, especially the qi of the spleen and stomach, and make the source of qi and blood biochemical full of power; Supplementing lung qi, lung qi is sufficient, and the ability to resist external evils is stronger. This is the wisdom of bird's nest to keep you from getting sick. Salty medicine can tonify the heart, promote blood circulation and clear away heat. The heart governs the gods, and the heart governs the blood. If the heart is full, the blood vessels will run smoothly and circulate endlessly, nourishing the whole body. Activating blood circulation can make blood circulation not stagnate, but it hurts if it fails. If there is no congestion in the body, there will naturally be no menstrual pain, and menstruation will be spared. Besides heat, why is there heat here? Poor blood circulation can easily lead to depression, liver qi can easily lead to depression, phlegm and dampness can easily lead to depression, and bird's nest can make up for it. The heat-clearing function does not have the disadvantages of rhubarb and coptis chinensis hurting the spleen and stomach, but also can solve the deficiency heat in the body and help you to be less upset.

(2) Ben Jingyuan's bird's nest can make the golden water grow together, nourish the lungs with kidney qi, and stabilize the stomach qi, so it is the most docile food. Unfortunately, herbs are not accepted and prescription books are rarely used. Now people use it to make up for fatigue, cough and spit red phlegm, and every time they cook it with rock sugar, it often has an effect. However, it only applies to those who are in the early stage of the disease. If yin fire prevails and blood rushes up, it is useless because it is soft and firm.

This is not difficult to understand, here gold and water are born together. Liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney correspond to wood, fire, earth, gold and water respectively. Gold is the lung and water is the kidney. The coexistence of gold and water refers to the relationship between lung and kidney, and the five internal organs are a whole and influence each other. Bird's nest is not only good for the lungs, but also the effect of tonifying the kidney and nourishing the stomach is not comparable to that of ordinary tonics. It is the mildest of all tonics and can be said to be a good tonic. In ancient times, rich people used bird's nest to supplement their bodies, such as Lin Daiyu, who you are familiar with. Traditionally, rock candy bird's nest is the most classic bird's nest collocation.

3. Lung and kidney meridians

(1) Bird's nest gets angry in the lungs, keeps water in the kidneys and keeps it in the stomach, so it won't get wet. But it is difficult to use medicine, because it is flat and beautiful, and it is often effective after use. However, if the fire is urgent, it should be saved with heavy drugs, and we should not ignore it, thinking that it is the foundation of saving the dying and will inevitably lead to the loss of the Committee.

(2) Entering lung meridian, kidney meridian and stomach meridian, which explains the meridian tropism well. We often say which meridian something belongs to, which is an attribute of TCM. Meridian tropism refers to the selective effect of drugs on a certain part of the human body, that is, drugs have a strong effect on one part of the human body and a weak or no effect on another part. For example, almond and platycodon grandiflorum have selective effects on lung meridian cough, so almond and platycodon grandiflorum belong to lung meridian; Chrysanthemum and cassia seed clear the liver and improve eyesight, and enter the liver meridian. Bird's nest is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, which has nourishing effect on lung meridian, stomach meridian and kidney meridian. When it enters the lungs, it has a good preventive effect on common lung diseases such as cough, stuffy nose and cold. Lung qi deficiency is easy to fatigue and sweat, lung yin deficiency is easy to low fever and irritability. If you feel stressed recently, always tired and lack of sleep, try the magical effect of bird's nest. Entering the kidney meridian can enhance the kidney qi and essence, and the kidney is the congenital foundation with sufficient kidney essence. Traditional Chinese medicine beauty and anti-aging are generally treated with traditional Chinese medicine for tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. Western medicine clinical pharmacology confirmed that bird's nest contains epidermal growth factor and rich active protein, among which epidermal growth factor and water extract can strongly stimulate cell regeneration and division, enhance human immune function and delay aging.

4. Formation of Bird's Nest

(1) The bird's nest we are talking about now is generally edible bird's nest. The formation process of bird's nest is as follows: Jin Siyan and the swallows of the same genus eat small fish, seaweed and other creatures in the sea, then secrete mucus through the digestive gland of the stomach, and then spit out mucus and fluff to build a semicircular nest. The shaped bird's nest is shaped like an ingot, and the outer wall of the nest is piled up with dense transverse stripes of filaments to form irregular prismatic protrusions, while the inner wall of the nest is woven into an irregular mesh by filaments, but the root of the nest bowl is solid and there are small falling angles at both ends.

(2) There are about 90 species of swallows that can nest with saliva all over the world. In addition to the common Jin Siyan, there are Jin Siyan in Java, Jin Siyan with gray waist, single-colored swallows and Jin Siyan in the South China Sea. Jin Siyan is more common in tropical coastal areas. It nests in the depths of caves at an altitude of 200 meters above sea level, or under the eaves of others, and local aborigines also use its nests. Jin Siyan's food is seafood, seaweed, silkworm snails or whitebait, so the saliva secreted by swallows is high in protein and amino acids, which is the real value of bird's nest.

(3) Bird's nest can be divided into three stages according to different nesting time. Every March, Jin Siyan builds its first nest. This bird's nest is thick and white. Because Jin Siyan has a long winter, a long time to recuperate, enough nutrients are stored in the body, and the quality of saliva is excellent, so the nest made is better and thicker, and the shape is particularly good, so it is called Gong Yan. Every June, Jin Siyan will nest again. Because of the short distance, its constitution has not fully recovered. Therefore, the quality of the nest is poor, thin and hairy, which is obviously slightly worse than the first time. Called Guan Yan; Jin Siyan nests for the third time in September every year. Because Jin Siyan is close to the production period, time is short, physical strength and saliva can't be fully supplemented, and it is urgent to feed the young birds, which consumes a lot of physical strength, and the nest is furry and contains many impurities.

(4) Bird's nest can be divided into domestic swallow and cave swallow according to different positions. Domestic swallows are nests built by swallows in artificial houses. The primitive forest environment of nature and the craft of the house are integrated into one, which combines the advantages of nature, freshness and cleanliness. Also known as Bai Yan. One is cave swallow, that is, the nest built by swallows in caves and coastal cliffs. Because the rock wall has mineral infiltration, it can turn red through natural oxidation, also known as red swallow. The color of the bird's nest is related to sunlight, food in Jin Siyan or the color of the wood for nesting. Swallows vomiting blood is not what the outside world says.

() 5 bird's nest contains100g of water. Carbohydrate accounts for 30.6 grams. Protein is 49.9g, and its nitrogen is divided into amide nitrogen, humic acid nitrogen, arginine nitrogen, cystine nitrogen, lysine nitrogen, monoamine nitrogen, non-ammonia nitrogen and sialidase. Among its components, protein is the largest.

5. The quality of bird's nest

(1) Compare by texture

Bird's nest cups are distinguished by "dense, thin and sparse". The denser one is classified as the top swallow cup, and the thinner one is inferior. Generally, cup-shaped complete fibers are closely classified as Grade I, while cup-shaped incomplete fibers are not closely classified as Grade II.

According to the cup type, the cup type is complete and symmetrical.

(2) According to the quality of bird's nest, it is divided into official swallow, hairy swallow and grass swallow.

A. Guanyan: A first-class bird's nest with complete lamp shape and few impurities, usually called "Guanyan" and "Gong Yan". This kind of bird's nest is the most nutritious, with few impurities and good taste. Tradition also has a name, that is, the first quality Bai Yan is called Yan Guan.

B. Mao Yan: A kind of bird's nest, in which swallows have more feathers, or the second and third stages of bird's nest. The nutrients are not as good as those in Yan Guan, and there are many impurities, so it is difficult to handle.

C grass swallow: a kind of bird's nest built in grass, mixed with a lot of grass clippings, with the worst quality.

(3) Bird's nest can be divided into three types and two types according to color. Blood swallows in bird's nest are the most precious and rare, so they are more expensive. Be careful when buying bird's nest. When identifying bird's nest, we should look at the shape, smell and feel to judge the authenticity of bird's nest.

6. How to eat bird's nest

(1) anchovies with bird's nest

Ingredients: prawn 10 (about 600g) Ingredients: 200g radish, 50g strawberry jam, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, green beans, Longkou vermicelli and egg white.

Seasoning: tomato sauce, sugar, white vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate, soup stock, rice flour and peanut oil.

Exercise:

A. remove the head, peel and leave the tail of prawns, cut a large piece from the back, remove the sand line, cut a cross knife on prawns, sprinkle with chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, salt, monosodium glutamate and cooking wine, and simmer thoroughly to taste.

B. Add peanut oil to the pot, cook until it is 40-50% mature, add Longkou vermicelli, fry until it swells, take it out, put it in a big round plate, cut the radish into filaments, put it in the middle of the powder, and add strawberry jam on it.

C. Beat the egg whites into sherry paste, add the dry powder dough and stir well. Each prawn is dipped in sherry paste, fried in 30% to 40% hot oil (no paste at the tail), placed outside the plate and placed on vermicelli in a circle.

D, add peanut oil, chopped green onion and Jiang Mo into the pot, add seasoning, thicken the green beans, saute the juice, and pour it on the prawns.

(2) osmanthus bamboo bird's nest

Ingredients: 3 earth eggs, bamboo bird's nest 1 bag.

Accessories: 500g of green pepper, 500g of red pepper and 500g of onion.

Seasoning: salt 5g, pepper 3g.

Features: bright red in color, crisp and tender in taste, thick in juice and not greasy to eat. It's a seafood dish, suitable for wine and meals.

Exercise:

A, blanch the bamboo bird's nest and squeeze the water for later use.

B. mix the earth eggs well for later use.

C, put the oil into a clean pot, add the prepared eggs, and keep stirring. When the eggs are fried into sweet-scented osmanthus, add green pepper and onion, add bamboo bird's nest, and add salt and pepper after stirring evenly.

Important: Generally, bamboo bird's nest is dark brown, but the best bamboo bird's nest is golden yellow.