Ancient And Modern Review Of Bird’s Nest

Bird’s nest, native to the islands around South East Asia, is a swift swiftlet genera birds secrete saliva to build a nest before laying eggs and its feathers. Edible bird’s nest in the human civilization has a long history, and become a kind of culture, not only for traditional health wisdom tradition, but also a happiness carrier as global Chinese recognized. The special preference to swallow is the common sentiment for Chinese people all over the world.Human understanding of bird’s nest originates from the ingredients used, and the value of its medicinal and health care were found gradually. It was the earliest recorded by《Ben Cao Feng Yuan》 as effective medicine for the management of deficient law disease, and its medical value was affirmed gradually by the subsequent pharmaceutical work, the modern authority medicine dictionary concluded to bird’s nest the efficacy of yiqi, buzhong, runfei, expectorant, zhike, etc, can be used for a long illness’s deficient, cough phlegm asthma, haemoptysis vomiting blood, malaria and frequency of urine. etc.Modern studies of bird’s nest have shown that bird’s nest contains abundant sialic acid glycoprotein, minerals, carbohydrates, vitamins and amino acids and other natural nutrients, can promote cell proliferation, removal of oxygen free radicals, anti-aging, regulating immunity, antiviral activity, those pharmacology activity are suitable for respiratory disease, women menopause syndrome and disease in the late toning and related diseases. The epidermal growth factor in the Bird’s nest is popularity in maintaining beauty and keeping young, regarded as" beauty gene".Due to excellent medicine and food value, bird’s nest price was rising. And fake bird’s nest appeared constantly with the large economic benefit, which disturbed the normal order of bird’s nest market.Therefore, the authenticity and quality identification of the bird’s nest become a hot spot by using modern science and technology. The general identification included physical and chemical identification, microscopic identification, UV infrared spectrometry identification, electrophoresis method, spectrophotometry, HPLC method and DNA sequence analysis laboratory. Although these identification methods have their own advantages and disadvantages during the process of concrete practice, the most appropriate method can be used according to different requirements of qualitative identification and content determination to make the identification of bird’s nest more scientific and objective.Bird’s nest is characterised by medicine and food. Its medicinal value is often realized by the compatibility between the food. At present, there are so many method for cooking bird’s nest, the most commonly method is stewed, which often used with rock sugar, honey and so on. With the modern understanding of crystal sugar, it has yangyinshengjin, runfeizhikehuatan, jiang huojieshu effects, and honey has buzhongyiqi, runzaojiedu effects. Bird’s nest with crystal sugar or honey, the work must be in the compatibility of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In the process of cooking bird’s nest with adding honey and sugar, it is not just increase the taste of bird’s nest, but also contains a certain theory of compatibility of TCM.In the pursuit of quality of life in today’s society, it is of necessity for bird’s nest to be commodity. From an economic perspective, the ultimate goal of the bird’s nest is pushing it to the market, creating much more economic benefits. At present, the bird’s nest commodities and products market is not mature enough and specification, a variety of adverse factors is still filled with in the market, for example fake and shoddy, inflated value disadvantages will still be living. Therefore, to establish standardized bird’s nest market, promote the development of the bird’s nest and a virtuous cycle of the deal, in order to create more economic benefits and social benefits, are the ultimate goal of bird’s nest research.Natural selection, survival of the fittest. In order to survive, the human will have to strengthen the instincts of self-existence. Lifetime is short, but if encounter with the disease, it will show the long. Because of this, cognition of Chinese material medical and the use of compatibility, will be given different points of view on a different perspective.