Bird Nest Chemotherapy. The Chinese name for birds nest soup yàn wō 燕窝 translates literally as swallows nest. An aunt who was diagnosed with cancer at that time cooked and ate all of the birds nest over a period of two years.
Pham has also observed that birds nest restores the sex drive of postmenopausal women over the age of 45. It also helps to decrease the discomfort caused by side effects of chemotherapy and electrotherapy. Making it soft supple lustrous and elastic.
It can be consumed by elder people to enhance their beauty.
Radiotherapy or chemotherapy. It is believed to nourish cancer cells thus promoting cell growth. Collagen and amino acid are the prized building blocks for smooth skin such as leucine lysine glycine glutamine tyrosine arginine cysteine histidine tryptophan and other amino acids. The birds nest contains a peptide-like substance called epidermal growth factor which allows the patients wound to heal as quickly as possible.