“20 Health Benefits of Eucheuma Seaweed”

Eucheuma Seaweed or Ecuheuma cottonii and sometimes called Bird Nest… is wonderful seaweed that is full of natural nutrients that are very healing. This seaweed is great for healing inflammation, arthritis, lowering cholesterol, and preventing and healing DNA damage… plus it may be a possible low cost food source for feeding all the hungry people in the world.

Where Found

- Eucheuma Seaweed is found around the world… in Hawaii, Tonga, East Africa, China, the Philippines, and around the Pacific Ocean.

Anti-inflammatory

- Eucheuma Seaweed is a good anti-inflammatory agent thus helping all types of arthritis, pain, swelling, and redness… and it also helps with kidney inflammation.

Improves Thyroid Function

- Eucheuma Seaweed improves thyroid function and helps to normalize and balance thyroid hormones.

Good Diuretic

- Eucheuma Seaweed is also a good diuretic helping to flush out toxins and increase urine flow thus healing edema.

Lowers Cholesterol

- Eucheuma Seaweed also helps to lower cholesterol because it contains lots of soluble fiber.

“20 Health Benefits of Eucheuma Seaweed”

GI Tract

- Eucheuma Seaweed is also good for the GI tract because it helps sooth away stomachaches, gastric ulcers, excess acid, diarrhea and constipation.

Natural Collagen

- This wonderful seaweed also contains a natural source of collagen which is great for healing joints and ligaments and all the cartilage of the body. Plus collagen is great for bring back that youthful appearance to the skin and preventing wrinkles, age spots, and dry skin.

Vascular System

- Eucheuma Seaweed also strengthens blood vessels and helps to prevent cardiovascular disease, strokes, and cancer.

Weight Loss

- Eucheuma Seaweed is very low in calories, and thus it works well as a low calorie food for those who want to lose a few extra pounds.

Strong Bones

- Eucheuma Seaweed is a good vegetarian source of calcium and phosphorus for building strong bones. In fact Eucheuma Seaweed contains 600 times more calcium than that found in animal sources of calcium.

Lowers Blood Pressure

- Eucheuma Seaweed also helps to lower blood pressure.

Contains Carrageenan

- Also known as seaweed flour carrageenan is a great natural food emulsifier and stabilizing agent. And carrageenan is used in the making of yogurts, cakes, cookies, custards, chocolate, ice cream, soy milk, nut milks, and many other foods, and even products like toothpaste, shampoo, lotions, and creams.

Good Source of Iron

- Eucheuma Seaweed is a good source of iron for healing anemia. In fact Eucheuma Seaweed contains 28 times more iron than that found in liver… making it a super source of bioavailable iron.

Slightly Alkaline

- Eucheuma Seaweed is also slightly alkaline thus helping to prevent acid build up in the body which starts inflammation and then disease.

Good Protein Source

- Eucheuma Seaweed can contain up to 10% protein depending upon where it grows around the world… making it a good source of muscle building protein.

Vitamin E

- Eucheuma Seaweed depending contains around 10 mg of Vitamin E per 100 grams of seaweed. Making it an important easy to grow plant source of Vitamin E which is a powerful antioxidant.

Resistant Starch

- Eucheuma Seaweed also contains resistant starch which helps our body feed good bacteria or probiotic bacteria thus boosting up our immune system.

Antibacterial and Anti-viral

- Because Eucheuma Seaweed contains the resistant starch carrageenan, it also helps to boost interferon production. And thus it helps to fight bacterial infections, viruses, colds, flues, and even the HIV virus.

Free Radical Damage

- Eucheuma Seaweed contains lots of antioxidants that help to prevent and repair free radical damage.

Increase Wound Healing

- In the Journal of Medicinal Plant Research it was found that Eucheuma Seaweed increases wound healing thus speeding up recovery skin wounds and other tissues.

Prefect Food

- Eucheuma Seaweed is a perfect food for women, children, the elderly, or anyone who is recovering from disease… and it’s also a great vegetarian food.

Great Food Source for the Future

- Eucheuma Seaweed is easy to grow and could provide tons of nutrition to feed all the hungry people of the world. And it could provides jobs for those who live in third world countries. All that Eucheuma needs is good salt water, sunlight, wave motion, and the right temperature to grow and flourish.

Taste

- This seaweed makes a wonderful aromatic salad that’s fantastic. It’s crunchy and takes on the flavor of all the seasonings. Google “Eucheuma Seaweed Recipes” and lots of great recipes will come up.

Finding

- If you google “Buy Eucheuma Seaweed” lots of places to buy this wonderful seaweed will come up. And it can also be ask for at your local health food store.
Enjoy this Great Tasting Seaweed
Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist
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About Bird Nest Soup

Bird Nest soup is a soup made from the nest of a kind of cave'dwelling swift. It is regarded as a delicacy, health booster, life prolonger and aphrodisiac in Asia, particularly in China and Hong Kong, and is said rejuvenate skin, clear up complexions, clean out the digestive track, and cure lung cancer. 

Bird Nest Soup

The translucent, gelatinous material used to make the Bird Nest gives the soup richness and texture and was compared by an 18th century adventurer with the foam of wave crests. Chinese have made the nest material into a jelly mixed with spices or sweets as well as soup. The taste? One producer said, it was “sort of like a piece of paper." The nest material has little flavor and generally is cooked with something else to be give it flavor.

Bird Nest soup was invented around 1750 by a Siam-based Chinese man named Hao Yieng who discovered the "wind-eating" swiflets and learned that their nests were soluble in water. In 1770, the King of Siam, granted Hao Yieng a monopoly on the Bird Nest trade. He promptly became rich. Later the Siamese took back control of the nests and a "corps of hereditary collectors" was established.
A kilogram of top quality Bird Nests can go for $3,000 to $4,000, half the price of gold, and is the product of about 120 nests. A tureen of soup for four people of "Nest of Sea Swallows with Venomous Snake and Chrysanthemum Petals with Lemon grass Lotus Seeds in Soup"---with several drops of venom squeezed from the glands of a snake that pulled out a bag---can go for $100 or more in Hong Kong and is made from six nests.

Bird Nests

The nests used for the soup are made by three bird species: 1) the edible-nest or white-Bird Nest; 2) Germain's Bird Nest; and 3) the black-Bird Nest. These birds live primarily in large limestone caves on islands or near the sea in Southeast Asia. Sometimes called "sea swallows," the small swifts feed on flying insects and navigate through caves like bats using echolocation.
Both males and females participate in nest building. The sticky gelatinous noodle-like fibers used to make the nests are secreted by well-developed salivary glands in their mouth The glands enlarge during the breeding season. When the fibers harden they produce a glue that hold the nest together and keeps it attached to the cave. The incubation period for the eggs is 19 to 23 days. Young remain in the nest for an additional six to eight weeks.
The best nest come from Bird Nests that live deep inside caves. These birds echoloccate with a series of high pitched clicks and rattles that increase in frequency from five a second in open spaces to twenty a second near walls. Distance is determined by amount of time it takes the sounds to bounce off the wall and return to the ear. Direction is determined by the minute difference between the time sound reaches each ear. The system is effective but crude compared to echolocation system of bats.