Can I eat sea urchin during menstruation?

Female friends all know that it is very important to take good care of yourself during menstruation. You can't eat anything casually during menstruation. If you eat the wrong things, it will bring pain to your body. So can you eat sea urchin during menstruation? Sea urchin is a very common seafood for us. Sea urchin is not only delicious but also has certain health effects and functions. So is it suitable for consumption during menstruation?

Sea urchins have very high medicinal value. Eating sea urchins regularly can help reduce phlegm and swelling. Sea urchins can effectively inhibit the expansion of tumors, so they have a good effect in preventing cancer.

Sea urchins use their gonads for food, which are also called sea urchin eggs, sea urchin roe, sea urchin roe, and sea urchin paste. They are orange-yellow in color, delicious in taste, and account for 8% to 15% of the total weight of the sea urchin. The eicosenoic acid contained in its gonads accounts for more than 30% of the total fatty acids, which can prevent cardiovascular diseases. Sea urchin is not only a premium seafood delicacy, but also a valuable Chinese medicinal material. China has long had records of the medicinal use of sea urchins. The medicinal part is the entire shell, which is made of calcareous material, and the medicinal name is "sea urchin". "Bencao Yuanshi" records that sea urchin has the effect of "curing heartache". Modern Chinese medicine believes that "sea urchin is salty and flat in nature. "Zhongyao Zhi" records that it "softens hard masses, disperses lumps, resolves phlegm and reduces swelling." Treat scrofula, phlegm nodules, phlegm accumulation, chest and flank distension, etc." The shell, spines and yolk of sea urchin can treat gastric and duodenal ulcers, otitis media, etc. The main nutrients of sea urchin eggs are lecithin, protein, riboflavin, thiamine, fatty acids, etc. The fatty acids contained in sea urchin eggs have a good effect on preventing certain cardiovascular diseases. Chinese medicine believes that sea urchin eggs are salty and flat in nature, and have the effects of softening and dispersing nodules, resolving phlegm and reducing swelling. Sea urchins are very easy to deteriorate after death. At the same time, sea urchin shells can also be made into handicrafts. Some manufacturers also develop sea urchin food, making sea urchins into iced sea urchins, alcohol sea urchins and sea urchin sauce. In addition, sea urchin extract Bonellinin has the effect of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells.

Sea urchins contain echinotoxins, which have different effects. Some have a dissolving effect on the animal's red blood cells, can cause heart activation and make muscles unresponsive to direct external stimuli. The toxin of Toxopneustes pileolus can cause temporary contraction of blood vessels around the heart of frogs and has a significant contractile effect on smooth muscles, and chymosin can inactivate it. The toxin is a peptide protein that behaves like a kinin on smooth muscle. The glycoproteins sirongylostatin 1 and 2 from the green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) both have antitumor activity. The toxin of Tripnenstes gratilla can induce sustained contraction of the isolated guinea pig ileum in direct proportion to the dose; coronary perfusion of the guinea pig heart can produce changes in cardiac amplitude and rate, and also cause varying degrees of cardiac stagnation. The toxin has hemolytic activity against erythrocytes of rabbits, humans, guinea pigs, cattle, sheep, and fish, causing a decrease in blood pressure in whole animals. The effect on ileal specimens was not blocked by atiropine, but was partially blocked by pynibeniamine, to varying degrees by D-lysergic acid and mellaril, and completely blocked by phenylbutazone. It can also block the deep abdominal extensor muscle of crayfish against indirect stimulation. Muscle responses to intracellular stimulation also cause an irreversible block. In guinea pig neurodiaphragmatic preparations, the toxin attenuated both directly and indirectly induced contractions, similar to those observed in invertebrate systems. Preliminary findings indicate that there is a toxic but non-thermal protein in the white-spined sea urchin, whose main function is to release histamine or produce kinin, indicating that this substance has potential pharmaceutical value.

As early as 1875, sea urchins were used as materials to study the role of the cell nucleus in the fertilization process. In 1891, Hans Driesch (1876-1941) used a microscope to split a sea urchin embryo that had just completed its first cleavage into two and found that the two separated cells each formed a complete larva. The significance of this experiment is that it proves that the embryo has the ability to adjust its development, laying the first conceptual milestone for modern developmental biology.

Above we introduced what sea urchin is. We know that sea urchin is a very famous seafood. Sea urchin can not only be eaten but also used for medicinal purposes. Sea urchins can prevent and fight cancer. Eating sea urchins regularly can also help prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so women can eat sea urchins during menstruation.